January 17, 2012 – 3:50 pm
I find this very troubling. Someone at Google appears to be deliberately and systematically polluting and plundering the crowdsourced data of competitors. Two instances seem to have been all but proven so far (check this post about OpenStreetMap and Mocality), it seems unlikely that it stops there. If ever an action was hypocritical and seemingly [...]
Update: 18 months now, still prodding google, but no answers yet Google Street View is brilliant – in fact, the whole digital map revolution is largely driven by expectations set by Google. Their tech is amazing. Unfortunately, as an organisation, they often fail to come up to scratch. A shame… here’s an example: Every now [...]
Couple of new things on Google Maps / Street View. They’ve added some new imagery captured by the trike, Google Earth Blog has a good write up of the additions. While I was there, I was alerted by user “Munden” that the blue dots of user generated photos had disappeared from the Google Maps when [...]
February 16, 2011 – 3:58 pm
Prompted by this tweet, I experienced this behaviour. I am not normally given to conspiracy theories, and apparently this is a hangover from when the wikileaks server was down and google dropped results from its index, but that was ages ago – why hasn’t it been fixed?
January 8, 2011 – 11:55 am
Trust the folk at NMA World Edition to explain the story in just 90 hilarious seconds!
January 8, 2011 – 10:17 am
Gerry Harvey (and @harveynormanau ) has become the visible target of the online shopper recently with his comments regarding GST and a ‘level playing field’. Technically, he’s correct, but his approach and methods work best for a certain demographic on shallow, sensationalist popular television – in the faster moving, better informed blogosphere, he’s experienced a [...]
November 10, 2010 – 8:14 pm
OK, a second post about #MoMoMelb. I’ve already had a bit of a moan about Monday’s event so you might think I’m dead against them. No, wouldn’t want to give that impression – consider this constructive criticism One of the generous sponsors of MoMoMelb is Blackberry, all these events have their sponsors – it just [...]
November 4, 2010 – 8:56 pm
Try switching browsers!… well, it might work! I just saw this one from downloadsquad.com in my feed reader and it’s true!! Visit http://www.capitalone.com/autoloans/ using Google Chrome and you get one rate (that’s it on the left), but use Firefox (on the right) and you get a much more attractive rate! I have no idea why [...]
November 3, 2010 – 4:08 pm
These days, web developers tend to use a lot of hosted services. It makes sense – you don’t want to have to re-write everything and host it locally. Unfortunately, at the same time you hand off responsibility, you also hand off control. If the remote service goes down or has problems, you have problems! … [...]
October 1, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Two google fanboy posts in one day! Still, they’re worth it Google have just made their short URL generating service available through a public web interface. This is not that earth shattering, I’ve been using the service via the chrome extension and it’s worked well for some time now. However, the excitement starts if you’re [...]
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