by Gil Friend | Jun 12, 2006 | Sustainability
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....
by Gil Friend | Jun 12, 2006 | Sustainability
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...
by Gil Friend | Jun 2, 2006 | Sustainability
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...
by Gil Friend | Jun 2, 2006 | Sustainability
[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...
by Gil Friend | May 28, 2006 | Sustainability
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...
by Gil Friend | May 28, 2006 | Sustainability
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,...