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Today at Google I/O, Google has made several announcements for geo developers. To sum: Google is updating (not abandoning!) its Flash API, but it still prefers the Javascript one Google is pushing the Maps API into mobile (and performance is ...

1. TypeKit -- Jeff Veen's new startup, making typography on the web fail to suck. Every major browser is about to support the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. While its technically quite easy to link to fonts, its legally more nuanced. Weve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. Weve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free an...

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Some people never grow up. Some people wait to have children so that they can become kids again. When Hillel Coopermans's young ones were four he began his family's Lego collection. This led to whole rooms being devoted to the hobby, to eBay auctions, and Leog conventions. In this week's Ignite Show Hillel takes us through the Lego Underground. He delves into Lego CAD and custom Lego pieces. If you need more Lego check out Wired's gallery of Lego projects for this weekend's Maker Faire.

You can also get the Ignite Show on iTunes.

Last week at Ignite Where Eric Gundersen of Development Seed made a significant announcement for geohackers looking for easy access to open geodata. Amazon will be hosting a copy of TIGER data on EC2 as an EBS (Elastic Block Storage). Eric stated...

I had a few miscellaneous notes on Google I/O that I wanted to share, including a few anthropological observations best made with pictures. I thought it was really interesting that there were more registration lines for Academia than there were...

On Monday, June 1st we will be kicking off Internet Week with an Ignite at the New World Stages. Tikva Morowati and I are co-hosting. Ignite NYC IV is proudly co-presented by the team at Web 2.0 Expo, a conference and expo bringing together th...

After the press conference following this morning's keynotes, I was part of a small group conversation with Lars Rasmussen, head of the Google Wave team. He told the story of how they pitched Sergey Brin on the Wave project. "We'd worked on our message," he said, "and we boiled it down to this: 'We think we have an idea that will have a bigger impact on email than Google Maps had on maps.'" Sergey bought off on the idea. 'Nuff said.

Lars pointed out that he and Jens actually had enough "accrued" 20% time...

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On Monday, June 1st we will be kicking off Internet Week with an Ignite at the New World Stages. Tikva Morowati and I are co-hosting. Ignite NYC IV is proudly co-presented by the team at Web 2.0 Expo, a conference and expo bringing together th...

Yesterday's Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications. This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application - still very much in the early stages of developmen...

1. Viral Epidemics Poised to go Mobile -- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (author of Linked: How Everything Is Connected To Everything Else) modelled mobile phone virus epidemiology for NSF and concluded that (in accordance with experience) no single OS has critical mass for viruses to break-out. I wonder: will Android or iPhone reach that point first? (via ACM TechNews)
2. Socrata -- formerly "Blist", the first of what will undoubtedly be many startups "refocusing" attempting to profit from the new US administration's ...

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Around the time I submitted a
proposal
on the White House's open government dialog site for
local forums to implement high-speed networks, the
FCC released a

77-page report (in PDF format)
that casts some light on the proposal. Their report, titled "Bringing
Broadband to Rural America: Report on a Rural Broadband Strategy,"
covers a huge range of ground (and retells a lot of standard stories,
including the reasons for universal service in broadband and a history
of public infrastructure efforts). Some of...

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Today at Google I/O, Google has made several announcements for geo developers. To sum: Google is updating (not abandoning!) its Flash API, but it still prefers the Javascript one Google is pushing the Maps API into mobile (and performance is ...

At Google I/O this morning, DeWitt Clinton announed Google Web Elements, a new simple interface layer to Google Ajax APIs. The goal is to make bringing Google features to other sites as easy as cut and paste. And indeed, the cut and paste functi...

Around the time I submitted a
proposal
on the White House's open government dialog site for
local forums to implement high-speed networks, the
FCC released a

77-page report (in PDF format)
that casts some light on the proposal. Their report, titled "Bringing
Broadband to Rural America: Report on a Rural Broadband Strategy,"
covers a huge range of ground (and retells a lot of standard stories,
including the reasons for universal service in broadband and a history
of public infrastructure efforts). Some of t...

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At Google I/O this morning, DeWitt Clinton announed Google Web Elements, a new simple interface layer to Google Ajax APIs. The goal is to make bringing Google features to other sites as easy as cut and paste. And indeed, the cut and paste functionality is impressive: Add news, custom search, conversations, maps and more to your site with only a few clicks. If the earlier HTML 5 announcements were for developers, these announcements are for everyone else. Any blogger can easily incorporate Google service...

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Just one very quick note:

When Apple released the iPhone, I said that they had changed the game. Not because they had created the coolest, prettiest phone in history, but because had a phone with a real browser that suppported real HTML with real JavaScript. You can write cool apps in Cocoa, sure. But what's more important is that you can write cool web apps that really, really work; and when you can do that, and have apps that are accessible from any platform, or (conceivably) any phone that's smart en...

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"Never underestimate the web," says Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra in his keynote at Google I/O this morning. He goes on to tell the story of a meeting he remembers when he was VP of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft five years ago. "We bel...

Guest blogger Mark Drapeau is the Co-Chair of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase in Sept 2009 and the Gov 2.0 Expo in May 2010, both in Washington, DC. He holds the title of Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University, a professional military educational school run by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mark is also co-founder of Government 2.0 Club, an international platform for sharing knowledge about the intersection between technology and governan...

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