The next big platform for app development is likely going to be mobile devices. Unlimited data plans, GPS functionality, and reasonably-good processing power make such devices a ripe target for commercial and open-source goodies.Google and Microsoft have both recently released search+map applications for the Windows Mobile platform. Microsoft has introduced Live Search Mobile and Google [...]

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RockStarApps has put together a handy “Ajax Maps Bake-Off” which lets you see how the biggest Ajax-driven maps compare side-by-side. The page loads a Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo map side-by-side, and keeps them synchronized for easy comparison.

The performance is - understandably - a little slow to keep the three maps sync’d, but it is [...]

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The plumbers union may be reuniting.  Dave Winer, inventor of RSS 2.0, has offered to re-join the RSS Advisory Board, albeit with a firm caveat:  The board will make no changes to the specification, just clarifications via a profile.
I will join as a member, if you want me to, to help give it legitimacy. At [...]

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