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Google Earth Monster Milk Float Game

osde8info
Jun 8, 2008
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Thank you tulrich for blogging (and creating ?) the Google Earth FireFox Plug-in and the Google Earth Monster Milk Float Game !

You can write Google Earth Plug-in apps using Javascript, including game-like things. It's pretty fun. It also integrates smoothly with Google Maps API sites; basically you just enable 3D, and most things will magically work.

http://www.google.com/earth/plugin/examples/milktruck/

There are some more Google Earth Plug-in source code examples you can look at on Google Code.

PS Currently (08 Jun 08 at 2:22 PM) there are only 31 del.icio.us social media linkers !

I expect there are more NOW !

Zimbra Desktop email and calendar client

osde8info
Apr 23, 2008
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Zimbra Desktop beta is an open source next generation email and calendar application. It’s like other email clients but it incorporates the latest features and experiences popular on the web to create a totally new and more powerful tool.

Zimbra Desktop supports:

POP & IMAP
Google Mail &Yahoo Mail Plus
Large mailboxes (>2G)
Calendar
Web Mashups !

Adobe OnAir AIR 2008 Tour

osde8info
Apr 10, 2008
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Had a fantastic day yesterday at the Adobe OnAir AIR 2008 Tour in London.

Adobe AIR brings Rich Internet Applications to the desktop of all three OS's ! You can use AIR to turn HTML file(s) and JavaScript file(s) into an executable for ANY platform - its a bit like "JVM + FileSystem + SQLite" !

AIR uses WebKit and is therefore compatible with your favorite JavaScript framework and even Google Gears !

Install the runtime, and check out the newest applications.

AIR for GNU/Linux ALPHA

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

create a mini-panoramio google map with (your) photos

Upload your photos to Panoramio and geotag them !

Then add the following into an iframe on your site

http://www.panoramio.com/plugin.php?lt=51.5&ln=-0.1&z=5

Set these parameters

lt = latitude
ln = longitude
z = zoom (1-10)

and optionally add these parameters

k = kind of map, 0 = map, 1 = satellite, 2 = hybrid
user = youruserid !

http://www.panoramio.com/blog/embedding-panoramio/

Panoramio Geo Tagged Photo API

osde8info
Mar 28, 2008
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Learn about the Web Services standards REST and JSON by using Google Panoramio and just your web browser !

Using the Google Panoramio API you can display the photos from Panoramio on your own web site. Geolocated photos from Panoramio are great to enrich your maps or illustrate information where location is a important factor (real estate sites, hotels and vacation sites, routes & trails...).

Here's how you'd get some photos of London (X=~0,Y=~51)

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8075745

http://www.panoramio.com/map/get_panoramas.php ? from=1 & to=16 & minx=-1 & miny=50 & maxx=1 & maxy=52 & size=small (just remove the spaces on either side of each "?" and "&" )

This REST call returns a JSON result set that you can view in your browser and cut and paste photo URLs from :

{"count": 42259,
"photos":
[
{ "photo_id": 4337937, "photo_title": "Sir Tatton Sykes Monument", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4337937", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw- panoramio/photos/medium/4337937.jpg", "longitude": -0.537515, "latitude": 54.042054, "width": 270, "height": 500, "upload_date": "31 August 2007", "owner_id": 278681, "owner_name": "G3ZZP", "owner_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/user/278681" }
,
{ "photo_id": 51502, "photo_title": "eclipse", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/51502", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/51502.jpg", "longitude": -0.121665, "latitude": 51.500969, "width": 500, "height": 375, "upload_date": "24 September 2006", "owner_id": 6645, "owner_name": "JesusVillalba", "owner_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/user/6645" }
]
}

For more help see http://www.panoramio.com/help/