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Of Knol and the web

To huge fanfare, Google this week announced Knol. We really know little about it, other than what we might glean from a single blog post by Udi Manber, Google’s Vice President of Engineering, which hasn’t stopped breathless coverage in mainstream media and the blogosphere alike. My initial response was tepid, to say the best, and […]

Mapstraction

I briefly referred to Mapstraction in the last article, but wanted to draw a bit more attention to it.
The idea behind Mapstraction is to provide a common API for a large number of mapping services, (like Google maps, Yahoo Maps, and many others) abstracting away the underlying APIs, and providing a Javascript based library to […]