In the they-just-don’t-get-it category, a West Virginia county tax assessor has filed a lawsuit to keep their tax maps off the web. I ran across this in Slashdot and did a double-take. I then read the linked article on A
Well, sort of. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting this story in the news somewhere (here, here, here, here, here, and here), so I thought I’d bring it up. On February 21st, 2008, Microsoft announced it has seen t
This is a bit off-topic, but it’s hard to go a month these days without hearing of a laptop walking away with sensitive information, like social security and credit card numbers. The privacy of your digital data is also
From Linux.com: OpenStreetMap (OSM) has completed the bulk import of comprehensive street and highway data for the United States, months ahead of the project's original estimates. The massive data set originated with the
In the gosh-I-didn’t-see-that-coming department, Sun Microsystems has entered an agreement to acquire the world’s most popular open source database, MySQL. The total price for the acquisition is ~$1,000,000,000.00 US,
From the-little-browser-that-couldn’t department, there have been a few bits of Internet Explorer information in the news lately that I thought might interest the web developers among you. First, on February 12th, Micros
Slashdot pointed me to a good summary article on user-generated content and map creation. FTA: Websites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a global patchwork of geographic information
It seems like the tech industry is in a mad rush to go green. Every time I turn around I’m reading about reducing power consumption in data centers and recycling old equipment. I would put this trend in the broad categor
From Slashdot: Google now lets registered users in the US, Australia, and New Zealand move incorrect address locations on Google Maps. Some addresses, such as hospitals and government buildings, can’t be moved, and if yo
For all the VS fans in the house: Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008, and with it .NET 3.5. Although Microsoft has has a rash of late software releases the last few years, to their credit this one rolled out the d