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  edparsons.com: The main story of the day I guess was the continued collective works of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation or OSGeo, which after a rather shaky start seems really to be pushing ahead, providing an environment to develop tools like MapServer, Mapbender, PostGIS etc. Indeed for me one of the unsung heroes of GIS today Frank Warmerdam, orchestrator of the GDAL toolkit used almost everywhere across the GIS industry, presented on the power of such open source libraries. (via Cosmos)

  WISP Centric: The cornerstone for the Skyhook Developer's Network is the Developer's Dashboard, a web-based support infrastructure that will give LBS developer's access to the Skyhook software-only positioning APIs and software code, documentation, release notes, community forums and technical support. (via Cosmos)

Planet Ajaxian: Identity management, including location privacy APIs for device location ( currently enviously guarded by the carriers) Geolocation beacon databases (being worked on in different ways by Intel's PlaceLab, Plazes, Loki, and others) Standards for data exchange. "If you can't exchange data, it's just play" Public policies, including free public access to publicly funded geodata, especially in countries beyond North America (via Cosmos)

  Kim Bach . Org: Unfortunately Skyhook’s small application Loki currently is Windows only (they do promise a Mac and Linux version), and the database is limited to major metropolitan areas in the US, by they do seem to be working on worldwide support (via Cosmos)

Alpha Blog - alpha.cnet.com: Skyhook has a consumer application, Loki. It's a toolbar add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer that will pinpoint your physical location on a Google map, and, if you want, also connect you to other "geotagged" databases of restaurants, photos, people, and so on. (via Cosmos)

lotusmedia 2.0: He’s making a surprise trip to Bagdad to show us the power of a Rove-ian Photo-Op ™. Do you feel better yet about the hundreds of thousands dead from Bush’s oil policy? (via Cosmos)

Driving Audhumla: I laughed and laughed and decided that trickster Loki had hitched a ride with Audhumla and me that day. The moral of the story is that neither sharply-tuned analytic faculties nor Pagan-informed intuitive sensibilities do you any good at all if you don't pay attention to what's right in front of you.  (via Cosmos)

Anarchoblogs: Pleased to meet you””won't you guess my name? But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game. ”” The Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil," Beggars Banquet, 1968 It's fairly easy to divide stories about Loki into two historical categories: pre-Christianity, and post-Christianity. All the Norse gods show certain evidence of Christian influence, but with Loki the division is fairly striking. Two examples, one from each group, should suffice to illustrate (via Cosmos)

The Anthropik Network: She proposes that Snorri's account of how the gods gave part of the roasting ox to Thiazi while traveling to visit Utgard-Loki reflects an ancient ritual in which offerings were made to the wilderness powers. Skadi's reply to Loki's taunts in "Lokasenna" refers to her holy groves and hallowed shrines, a boast supported by many place names, and she is not only the daughter of a giant, but the home she inherited from him is located in Asgard. (via Cosmos)

[Byz.org] Trends: Home & Media: "WiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet. It forms a WiFi "island Internet" challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity."

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