Category Archives: General

The start of the geolocation web.

By dougt | Published: July 9, 2009
Today, when you go to maps.google.com, you will notice something new: See it? That little button between the map control and the street view man, when pressed, will enable geolocation for maps. Other sites also have started adopting geolocation. Flickr has created a maps page that has a “Find my location” button that uses geolocation [...]
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sully

By dougt | Published: May 6, 2009
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skype

By dougt | Published: May 3, 2009
today i setup skype for my uncle.  it was such a weird and awesome experience.  Twenty plus years ago, he migrated from Portugal to the US and settled in California.  He hasn’t been back home in a decade.  Sadly, he was recently diagnosed with cancer, and he will not be flying again.  One of his [...]
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no on the r-word

By dougt | Published: March 10, 2009
One thing that always rubs me the wrong way when people use the r-word. It is like walking through a cloud of cigarette smoke as a non-smoker. I clearly do not have the right to ask them to quit, but I would rather not be around it. I have, in the past and only to [...]
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