For a temporary reprieve from Katrina news, I’ll post an article here that I spotted a few days ago, and unlike emergency management or politics is regarding a subject that I can actually speak with some authority on. ZDNet reported on Thursday that the state of Massachusetts has decided to eliminate their dependence on Microsoft [...]
As always, new stuff coming out of Google today and yesterday: For those of us who use Gmail as a backend to our own domain email address (e.g. all my @skaroff.com emails get forwarded to a Gmail account), Google has introduced multiple account support. Just go to Settings > Accounts in Gmail and you can [...]
A Virginia based company; Space Adventures is offering space tourists a trip around the moon. The company is working with Russian space officials and the voyage will take between 10-21 days, depending partly on the itinerary and whether the trip includes a stop at the International Space Station. (For my money, please, make the stop [...]
Via Blinq, another in the continuing saga of GoogleMaps mashups. Grabbing data from gasbuddy and superimposing it on a map, Ahding.com has the Cheap Gas finder. Cheapest gas right now in Philly is only $1.97 at the Hess on Lancaster Ave. I think I paid $2.11 at the Wawa on Aramingo Ave yesterday. In tech [...]
Philly Future is running a Q&A with Dianah Neff, the City of Philadelphia’s CIO, on the Wireless Philadelphia initiative. If you aren’t familiar with WP, the city is planning on creating a municipal WiFi network over the entire 135 square miles of Philadelphia with the intention of providing cheap internet connectivity to underserved neighborhoods and [...]
I’m testing out Blogger’s new mobile blogging service which allows you to post text and images to your blog using your cell phone. This picture was just taken with my camera phone and uploaded using the fantastic Chatter Email client. UPDATE: Well it took a couple of tries to get everything right, but it seems [...]
The City of Philadelphia‘s plan to blanket the entire city in WiFi broadband internet is continuing to move forward. They’ve published a Request for Proposals and indicated that it should be online by next year. WNYC‘s On The Media just interviewed Dianah Neff, the CIO for the city. Available in mp3 or podcast.
I posted the other day and briefly mentioned Yahoo’s new traffic RSS feed. If you fed it your city name or zip code it would give you an XML file with current traffic information. Cool, but not that practical for most people. Well now Greg has tied it all together with GoogleMaps. Tell it your [...]
<rant>Forgive me if my words seem callous, but who in their right mind cares about what passes for news on the 24 hour cable networks these days? The latest absurdity is this woman who ran away from her wedding in Georgia. She got nervous and fled to New Mexico, along the way inventing a story [...]
For quite a while now on the web, Google has set the standard for usability, functionality, and just plain likability as an Internet company. The search engine has been consistently the best on the web for most of 5 years now and they are THE company, besides Yahoo, that truly showed the viability of online [...]
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