Disney World as a Google Map:
A Walt Disney World enthusiast has placed every ride, shop and restaurant in the park onto a Google Maps mashup! Link (via The Disney Blog)
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Tim O'Reilly sounds off on Yahoo's new "Pipes" service
Yahoo this week debuted a new service called Pipes. Here's the official description:
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.Take BoingBoing, for example. You might enjoy one author's work, and find another not to your liking. Pipes provides an easy way to only read specific author(s), and filter out all other posts. Or, if the only subject you're interested in here is Disneyphilia, or ukeleles, or cat macros, or nanotechnology -- or you can't stand any of those, but like other stuff here -- Pipes provides easy ways to filter in or out particular content.
I'm sure other people could come up with far more interesting BoingBoing-related examples, and those are really pretty crude ideas of what this thing's capable of. Here's something else: the most popular Pipe right now is called New York Times through Flickr...
This Pipe takes the New York Times homepage, passes it thru Content Analysis and uses the keywords to find Photos at Flickr.
That's pretty badass.
Reactions from a number of internet-thinkers are very positive. Tim O'Reilly has an extensive post about why he likes Pipes, and he sees it as a manifestation of ideas that have been circulating for some time now:
[It] is a milestone in the history of the internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output. Yahoo! describes it as "an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator" that allows you to "create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant." While it's still a bit rough around the edges, it has enormous promise in turning the web into a programmable environment for everyone.Read the whole post here -- it's a good one, and provides much to chew on: Link.Before I get into the details of what it is and how it works, I want to give a little background on why I'm so excited. This is something I've been waiting nearly ten years for.
Google Mashup Mania
I absolutely adore stuff like this! It's a google maps mash-up of handy sites in Los Angeles from Google Maps Mania. You can find the latest real-time traffic jams, where the closest vegetarian restaurant is, what clubs to hit in your area and what's going on with the LA Police, Fire Fighters and 911. There's also a Beer Map, a guide to all the Starbucks sites (heads up Markland!) and a big listing of Real Estate data. Fun stuff!
11 great Google Maps Mashups to get you started..
Real-time LA Emergency events - Real-time map of Police, Fire and 911 Events
My California Traffic: LA - Shows real-time traffic conditions on all LA area freeways. To get started, select Los Angeles from the list
Track inbound flights to LAX - Real-time flight tracker for all inbound flights to LAX
LA Weather Mashup - Current conditions, forecasts, weather cams. Lots of weather info for LA
LA Starbucks Map - Map of all LA Starbucks locations.. Search for Los Angeles, CA to get started!
LA Life - A great LA Real Estate resource with things like home info, community safety and school data to help you out
Trulia LA - Currently mapping 1180 LA properties for sale with an fantastic user interface
LA Beer Map - Find brewpubs, breweries, beer bars, beer stores and homebrew stores in LA
LA FastFood Map - Mapping every McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wendy's, KFC, Jack in the Box, Hardee's, Carl's Jr. and In-N-Out in LA
Wikimapia LA - Describes hundreds of locations throughout the LA area. Take a look and add your own locations!
Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps: LA - Scroll down through the list to see a great list of LA points of interest and landmarks zoomed in on a Google satellite map.
Now for the entire list..
Housing & Real Estate:
Food and Restaurants:
Transit and Transportation:
Google Transit Planner: Burbank, Orange County
Beer, Wine and Nightlife
Living in LA:
Exploring LA:
Check "Living in LA" section for more useful mashups for your trip to LA!
LA Photos and Satellite Views:
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