Yahoo! Increasing your whereness with Placemaker
From Yahoo1 Dev net today comes Placemaker, a geoparsing Web service that gives you a way to determine the ‘whereness’ of unstructured content. From Yahoo!… This read-only service identifies,...
View ArticleGeoCities R.I.P as Yahoo! pulls the plug
I doubt that there will be very many tears shed, however, one of the web’s old timer resources is shutting down today as Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities. I have to admit, I haven’t even looked at a...
View ArticleAdd geo-location to facebook via fire eagle friends on fire
A tip for you Geo geeks on facebook… I stumbled onto an update from Yahoo! Fire eagle this morning that enables facebook users to integrate more geo location functionality into their account courtesy...
View ArticleYahoo! Sketch a spatial search
Yahoo! just recently rolled out Yahoo! Y sketch for iPhone a cool search tool where users simply sketch an area of interest on a map and look for hits of interest returned within the area… very clever!
View ArticleThe New Yahoo! Goes Loco With Local offers and a Dozen Partners
Out of the Web2.0 event this week in San Fran, Yahoo! has lifted the lid off their latest plans to harness the power of location and mobile location tech – enter Yahoo! Local offers. Some details…...
View ArticleYahoo! looks back at search trends – BP tops search and Germans interested in...
Today Yahoo! Inc. has announced its 2010 Year in Review (http://yearinreview.yahoo.com), the annual Yahoo! look back that identifies the top trends of the year from billions of consumer searches, and...
View ArticleBOSS Geo Added to Yahoo! Search API
Something new from Yahoo! (you remember them right?)… seems the Yahoo! team is beefing up their API a little with addition of some new geospatial capabilities. Via their dev blog, Yahoo! describes BOSS...
View ArticleHome and Remote Office Workers… A Good Idea or Just Yahoo!-ing Around?
It seems that Marissa Mayer and Yahoo! have stirred the pot a little here with this topic, although honestly, given Yahoo!’s track record I don’t really take much to heart that is coming out of the...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer and Yahoo! design team kill a week-end creating a “new” logo
I’m not sure if you Yahoo! or not (honestly I can’t recall the last time I hit the site) but apparently a few of you do and apparently Marissa Mayer has been doing some “great” stuff there also –...
View ArticleVideo – Tips to Sharpen Your Spatial Analysis Skills
A handy video from the Esri video production team shares some tips for users on ideas for sharpening their spatial analysis skills and get started with web GIS… FYI, for more interesting and useful...
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