flickr and maps

Those lovely people over at flickr have integrated geotagging and yahoo maps into the organiser function. Very nice integration. Well if you live in the US it is. If you live in say London…

You might have more of a problem. Yahoo maps just simply doesn’t cut the mustard for this kind of application. Well any application actually. Let’s compare Google and Yahoo maps for my neighbourhood.

You can see if you look closely towards the centre a big square block called Du Cane Court. Well you can on the map on the left (google) on the right you just see a blur of housing.

AIM and weemee

It’s so cute it defies belief – well okay it’s not and it’s as cute as stor troopers. Remember them? Well If not then maybe this is cute!

web 2.0 to enable semantic mashups

note 2.0 self

Note 2.0 Self is going all web 2.0 and with that in mind we have a new logo courtesy of the Web 2.0 V2 Logo Creatr (Beta) our business plan is to enable semantic mashups – courtesy of The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator. We will of course be launching our new portal Seceeno which will be sellling geotag-based textbooks via shockwave. That’s our new web 2.0 company courtesy of web two point oh!

 

 

Primark undies

The best line out of this weeks Pop Justice?

The new-look Blazin’ Squad have rubbish underwear.

Someone send a Primark voucher THIS INSTANT.

Picture of the boys in their kecks here.

I found this particularly amusing as I had been aimlessly wandering around glamoursmith last week when I bumped into a guy from work. He bought some Primark pants and then the following day said they were not at all comfy. So PJ I think you should send them some M&S vouchers instead. Much more comfy not to mention classy!

More on AOL Search

Over at aolstalker.com they have done an interesting analysis of the clickthru from the AOL search data that was released last week to the fury of privacy rights campaigners and users.

A whopping 47% of searches failed to reult in a click thru to a result.
I have to say I’m sure this is no lower than the click thru on most internet banners which cost far more to run. Who actually clicks on those flashing banners anyway?

Google trends

Mark pointed out some great google trends from their data. I’ve been playing too. How about the answer to the age old question of boxers or briefs? Or how about Mac v PC?

AOL EFF FTC

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to force AOL to help the people whose search records it recently released.

In a complaint filed Monday, the EFF requests that the FTC investigate the incident and have AOL notify, via electronic and postal mail, all affected persons that their search results were released.

AOL should also pay for at least one year of credit monitoring service for each person, because the release of the records puts these people at risk for identity theft, the EFF charges. The EFF is a nonprofit organization focused on protecting civil liberties in technology contexts, such as computing and the Internet.

More at Macworld

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Well they say that anyway.
AOL has been using roundels and faded colourways for the last few years. As shown here on the French site, the German site and the UK site.



V Two One Broadband seem to like the colour scheme and the roundels.