Cool beans

Lots of new releases geospatial releases from Google today:. Satellite imagery update: . New version of Google Earth: . Google SketchUp with textured buildings: . Updates to Google Maps and the Google Maps API, including. Google Maps API, and KML for Google Maps....

MashUp Showcase at Where2.0

Coming to you today from Google’s GeoDeveloper Day — the pre-event to the Where 2.0 conference tomorrow and Wednesday. Stay tuned for details — unless I get so engroessed I forget to blog — and most likely for a longer piece soon on...

More inconvenient truth

Al Gore’s climate crisis film, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, opens in the Bay Ares this week. Maybe we’ll see you at the afterparty. Meanwhile, truth is apparently inconvenient for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Remember their ‘carbon...

[Bollix! I goobered up the

[Bollix! I goobered up the html on this. Fixing it now…] SustainLane released their second ‘sustainable cities’ rating this week, with plenty of media and some show and tell as the US Conference of Mayors conference in Las Vegas (which for some...

Quote of the Day

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz musing at AlwaysOn about ‘Java, and Survival of the Most Adaptable’ (which has to do with much more than software).I’m still amazed when I hear folks wondering how Sun monetizes Java. So at the risk of...

Passive Survivability

Building Green quotes my Sustainability — At the Tipping Point? article in their recent posting on Passive Survivability: A New Design Criterion for Buildings. (Another aspect of future-proofing; more to come on that soon.)Here’s an excerpt:In some ways,...