Tag: usergeneratedcontent

Google Maps India

Google Maps for the country of India now features the ability to search for points of interest and addresses.

meanwhile, the much touted yahoo maps india finds not one of these examples.
2007-07-26: welcome to crowdsourced google maps

Adobe and del.icio.us work together?

Adobe’s first step was to set up a del.icio.us account and start collecting the best bookmarks on Illustrator they could find. They then integrated del.icio.us into Illustrator CS3 as part of their “knowhow” palette, thereby allowing users to tap directly into Adobe’s bookmarks.

Scranton map

Location of the office. As documented by proud scranton residents

The creation generation

The more tools there are, the more things they’ll make. There is no end to it. They don’t consume. They make. This is the creation generation.

one can hope. maybe with the decline of TV, creativity comes back?

UGC Epidemiology

Who Is Sick? is a new Web service that provide a sense of your community’s health by enabling people who live there to share information about the local spread of diseases. You can anonymously post your own sickness information and use the Google Maps interface to search and filter sicknesses by symptoms, sex, age, and, of course, location. It’s also interesting to look at the percentage breakdown of symptoms–like runny nose, cough, or stomach ache–in a particular area.

livejournal meets public health. sharing means caring?

N95 Sousveillance

I suspect the N95 will revolutionize reporting in countries with draconian restrictions on the media.

NYC Bars with Dancing

notebooks allows annotated maps. who knew

Battlestar Galactica UGC

The team behind Battlestar Galactica is providing fans with a web clipboard of special effects shots, sound effects and music tracks so they can create their own BSG videos. Executive Producer David Eick will pick the best one, and it will air on the network during an upcoming episode.

maybe it can make up for the suckage in recent episodes

The Cult of the Amateur

what a load of bull. sour grapes?

2-way mapping

So — when does mapping become a 2-way app? I’d be willing to tell their software that I have a better route, it’s one that comes from living here, and being a cab driver here.