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Category: Noteworthy

  • EveryBlock launched – first impressions

    I’ve just read the news that EveryBlock has lauched on Adrian Holovaty’s blog. (You can read about the idea behind everyblock at the launch entry of the everyblock blog). I had the chance to meet Adrian last August and discuss some of my ideas and concerns related to geocoding news etc with him. It’s great […]

  • Going Places – Adding geographic metadata to news at the source

    Over one and a half years ago i embarked onto the mission to bring geographic metadata to the wires of dpa. After quite some convincing in April started defining and redefining the roadmap, the semantics and the syntax of the metadata, designing and building the support process into our editorial systems. Since mid december we […]

  • SJ destroys hopes for an eBook version of iTouch

    Steve Jobs just destroyed nearly all my hopes for an eBook size version of the iTouch (commenting on amazon’s kindle in an interview with NYT): “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one […]