Ravi’s Blog

This has been a very interesting day at the Where 2.0 conference. A lot of interesting quotes today from interesting people. Few that i can remember:
Life is Local - Craig DonatoPlatform beats the application every time - Tim O`ReillyGeo Spatial visualations are one way to organize our reality - Jack Dangermond
I loved tim o’reilly’s talk […]

http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-yahoo/
Greg sadetsky - a hacker - developed this site that combined yahoo! traffic with google maps. He went into details of his experiment over here.

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Great demo from john hanke on google earth. All the features promised by msn virtual earth are already released and working. Demo of various sites on the earth (mt. everest, mt. vesuvio, greece) followed by a demo of trup planning experience in minneapolis. Some of the notable things:

turn on and off various services (mark […]

So, after the comedy show, they delved into a preview peek of MSN Virtual Earth. It looks like both google and Microsoft are racing ahead in satellite imagery integration with maps/local experience. Here are some features that they talked about in MSN Virtual Earth.

Tag/Label streets on the satellite images.
Zooming in and out much like […]

Just saw the talk by michael frumin about fundrace2004 project. He demo’d pretty cool overlay of party fund contributions over a map like interface. Very cool, you can type in your address and findout what your neighbors have contributed and to which party. This is about presentation of known information as an overlay of geography. […]

Just as I was headed to where 2.0, I saw the headline about richard nixon calling indira gandhi an old witch. I was just curious to follow up and checked out the actual transcripts. Here’s some specific text where richard nixon, wished that indian people were struck by “mass famine”.

Kissinger: They’re such bastards. […]

I am going to be at where 2.0 in SF starting tomorrow. This is the first oreilly conference i am attending. This should be interesting. From the Oreilly page
Location-aware technologies combined with mapping and other data are poised to create a whole new class of web apps and services……But where is location-based technology leading us […]

An IM from a friend spurred me into thinking about gBay. The question he posed was

What would it take for google to unseat eBay?
Simple as that. I guess eBay is no longer considered as invincible. Not that eBay as a company has done anything wrong. There weren’t any missteps, poor execution. The marketplace that eBay […]

Sorry for the gap in blog posts. In the last month, i got married and also cranked out the first version of internal product i have been working on. It’s been pretty hectic. I kinda fell out of the blogging world, till i got an IM from a friend talking about ebay.. actually about Gbay. […]