Category: Design

Milwaukee has Google street views!

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 15, 2008

Milwaukee has just been added by Google to their cool interactive Street View component of Google Maps? What a cool technology for the city and organizations to exploit in Google’s popular mapping service.

milwaukee street view via google

So feel free to email anyone and send a link permitting visitors to interactively tour Milwaukee via Google’s panoramic street view component. No mention in local media (newspapers, TV or radio) about Milwaukee joining this cool web tool.

With linking and embedding supporting this will provide a great resource for Web2.0 tools as well….like building the interactive frame right into your blog:

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Milwaukee joins great cities including San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, Minneapolis, Chicago, Miami, New York City, Boston and Orlando with support for Google’s street view technology.

It may surprise some around town that many established cities (including Seattle) are not yet supporting street view.

Wish the resolution of their camera was better….but its a cool start.

Tags: Google Maps, street view, interactive, VR, panoramic photography,
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Internet2 – Leading the way

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 15, 2008

MIT’s Technology Review has published a new article reviewing a new dynamic circuit test network to test how advanced networks, primarily located in academia can be moved to the commercial internet.

The dynamic circuit network provides a temporary connection to another location … like making a phone call: the user’s data would be carried directly to that other location, uninterrupted by the traffic of others sharing the network.

Eventually the technology advances from this test network could provide a solution to sending HD video over the regular internet.

Tags: Internet2, dynamic circuit network, HD video, globalization, network, trends

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We need more ideas like this

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 11, 2008

Engineering and creative thinking will change the world for the better:

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Latest read: Making Globalization Work

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date February 9, 2008

If you were first introduced to globalization via Tom Friedman‘s The World Is Flat, you may be interested to learn more about this wave of economics. Many point to the recent book by Joseph Stiglitz called Making Globalization Work. This is a follow-up to his 2003 book Globalization and Its Discontents.

Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia. He served as Chairman of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1995-97. He followed that appointment by serving as Chief Economist and Senior VP of the World Bank from 1997-2000. Stiglitz was one of three to receive the 2001 Noble Prize in economics.

He accurately addresses areas of economic globalization that continue to fail across the globe in shaping market opportunities of underdeveloped nations. Needless to say the real golden rule applies: He who has the Gold makes the rules.

Tags economics, Globalization, Stiglitz, trends

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Internet offline in Middle East & Asia

Post author By Don Kasprzak
Post date January 31, 2008

internet map cut Early reports this morning point to a large-scale failure of the internet due to damaged cables in the Mediterranean ocean.

Access in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are currently the regions of the world without access. India is reporting its bandwidth has been cut in half.

This shows the weakness of patching legacy communication tools. Redundant cables anyone?

UPDATE: 02/05/08

Tags: Internet, peering, network failure, globalization