Mapumental

Meet Mapumental, a fascinating little gizmo from the kids over at MySociety.org



More at Mapumental.

Google Earth as a Serious Games Engine?

Well, not quite a game is it? More of a simulation really. But the potential may be there.



Hat-tip to Wonderland

London (harder, better, faster, stronger)

Enjoyable little picture collage by David Hubert

London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.

Google's Wave

If you can sit through the self-congratulatory Google back-slapping, this actually looks like a powerful tool.


If you can't quiote stomach the whooping and hollering, there's a good sumary by the boys at Mashable here:

Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few:

- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.

- Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.

- Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook (Facebook reviews) application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.

- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a developing conversation.

- Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

- Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.

- Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.

- Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.