Reading Time: < 1 min According to a post on geothought, Microsoft’s Virtual Earth will be supporting KML in September or October of this year. The implications of this are huge, but it appears there isn’t a solid source on it yet. The author (Peter Batty) heard it in a “vendor spotlight” presentation at the GeoWeb conference in Vancouver, but […]
Archives for July 2007
Yahoo tips for “exceptional performance”
Reading Time: < 1 min Yahoo has just posted a list of 13 ways to improve the speed of your website. Some of them are ones we’ve discussed on here in the past (ake JavaScript and CSS External being a big one). Some of the tips really only apply to very large sites, but the list is worth looking over […]
Web design tips from Harry Potter
Reading Time: < 1 min Here is a neat article I just found titled “What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About Good Web Design“. The idea is that the Harry Potter books themselves aren’t anything special. Nice artwork, but a rectangular shape, standard binding, normal English alphabet, white numbered pages, black text, etc. What makes them special is the content. […]
Yahoo Answers doesn’t know how to say “thank you”
Reading Time: < 1 min I got an e-mail from Yahoo Answers a few days ago with the subject line “A little thank you…”. Here is the full message: Where is the “thank you” in that message? The whole thing is about why I should be using Yahoo Answers even more. FWIW, I think Yahoo Answers is pretty neat. I […]
A few new tips on using the Virtual Earth API
Reading Time: < 1 min A couple new API tips were posted today on some Virtual Earth related blogs. First, the Virtual Earth / Live Maps Blog explains how to display their slick new hill shaded tiles using the VE API. I’ve already mentioned how good looking I thought these tiles are, so it’s nice to see an easy way […]
An odd take on what Google Earth could do “in the Wrong Hands”
Reading Time: < 1 min Courtesy of Google Blogoscoped, here’s a short video someone made about a fictional anniversary. It comes with the warning that “some viewers may find this video disturbing”. That warning is solely based on the storyline, as there isn’t any profanity or disturbing images. It obviously stretches the truth in a number of places, but if […]
3D Campus buildings are now in the default 3D layer
Reading Time: < 1 min As reported by the Google Earth Blog, the winners of the “Build Your Campus in 3D” are now available in Google Earth. Check them out in Google Earth, or watch the video that gives a brief tour of each campus.
The Long Tail
Reading Time: 2 min The phrase “the long tail” is becoming more and more popular. I’m going to explain what it is and why you should care. The long tail refers to all of those keyword phrases that just get a few searches per day. For example, the phrase “church” probably gets thousands of searches per day, but the […]
Great article about why simple is better
Reading Time: < 1 min In the past, I’ve been pushed to add many things to church sites that might be nice, but rather unnecessary. Some I was able to easily convince people that we didn’t need ($5000 for “virtual tour”), others were harder to battle (“why isn’t the whole site FLASH?”). Then today I found this article: Why Your […]
Google’s “Build Your Campus in 3D” winners announced
Reading Time: < 1 min As announced on the Google Lat Long blog, today Google revealed the winners of their “Build Your Campus in 3D Competition“. They are: University of Minnesota – Department of Architecture Purdue University – Departments of Computer Graphics Technology and Education Concordia University, Loyola Campus – Department of Civil Engineering Stanford University – Department of Architectural […]