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MaisonBisson.com: Wearing the badge “still beta,” Plazes, the free, network-based geolocation service, now sports a new coat of paint. Among the improvements is the Flash-based badge (above) and a much improved frontpage/dashboard that combines the map of known locations with the map of active users, formerly two separate screens. (via Cosmos)

  Technology, Blogging and New Media: Maybe Hezbollah would agree to using Google Calendar to plan their “events” so we can all show up? Perhaps setting up a Plazes account would settle issues. (via Cosmos)

 [Crschmidt.net] Technical Ramblings » Geolocation: Attached to this, for results, are a couple URIs: http://norman.walsh.name/2005/02/witw/is/$username is the most interesting, for example, WITW is Christopher Schmidt , which returns XML formatted in-browser with XSLT. (Note that this will only work in IE and Firefox at the moment.) Even more interesting things happen when you’re actually near someone, however, there’s not anyone close enough to show up by default.

 [Oreillynet.com] O'Reilly Conferences: Patel explained how we’re tracking things like the growth in open source communications tools and VoIP, and will be featuring presentations that demonstrate the innovations that are happening on the edge of the telecom networks, and not just looking at the industry from a telco perspective. The conference will provide a forum for developers who may feel marginalized by the traditional telco models.

[Geotags.org] Geotags.org: April 2006 Archives:  [Natural Search Optimization SEO Blog] We’re already seeing all sorts of interesting mashups of things which have been produced with the Google Maps API, so you can look forward to seeing even more interesting applications occur when people begin exploiting the data tie-ins that are going to be possible through the use of GeoTagging data. As Google expands their Maps to Europe and other countries, the incentive to usse their Map API only increases, too.

[Tim Oren's Due Diligence] VC Disruption? Part Two.: Using the language from Part One, here's the argument: Increasing software layering and standardization should lead to reduced transaction costs, which should push some amount of innovation from the hierarchical model into the contract model. In other words, projects that formerly were in-house one-off software jobs should move to external purchase of standards based solutions, some of them hopefully from VC-funded growth companies.

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