http://dawidget.com Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, yes, I work for these guys but amongst all the excitement about the iPhone 3g and today's launch of the app store, it is still worth pointing out, being biased or not. Here it goes... WHERE is now available for the iPhone. With all those widgets available inside WHERE, ... http://dawidget.com/where-on-iphone/ Have a look at April 29th Garfiled and you'll learn that Jon Arbuckle has a GPS-enabled mobile phone. He's only missing friends to call him. Maybe he needs to get started with Buddy Beacon. http://dawidget.com/jon-arbuckle-has-a-gps-enabled-phone/ Google announced Google Street View which features high resolution 360-degree street level views from major urban cities. I was impressed. Shortly after the announcement, Greg Sadetsky found a way into the inner works of Street View. At wherecamp (held on the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA) a few developers, including ... http://dawidget.com/hacking-google-street-view/ I am sitting here at the Google Developer Day 2007 in the San Jose Convention Center. Lots of colored boxes and bubbles... waiting for the big show... ...and I had to leave for a meeting. Oh well, at least I got coffee, a t-shirt and half of a keynote speech. buy ... http://dawidget.com/google-developer-day-2007-gdd07/ We've presented our WHERE application here at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose. The response and interest of so many people has been exciting and motivating. Also the interest from other web sites and developers is looking promising to add many more widgets to our gallery. Here a post ... http://dawidget.com/gps-widgets-for-mobile-phones/ A wikipedia for geographical data... how great is that? Very. GeoNames is just that and what makes it even more interesting, are its aggregation of data from various countries and the webservices it offers. Dopplr (see my previous post) also uses their webservices. Especially the postal code services are of ... http://dawidget.com/geonames/ — Once in a while, you find a web application that, beyond having a bit of a 'cool factor', it is also useful. This is what it takes for any product to be successful and DOOPLR has this potential. I am actually a bit jealous because I had about ... http://dawidget.com/dopplr/ A tweak to search blog entries and pages — The default WordPress search box only searches the blog entries. I have found many people looking or providing a solution that also searches static pages. I finally settled for Advanced Search by Alex Günsche. It offers several options to search your ... http://dawidget.com/wordpress-search-box/ It's been quiet and sad here in Blacksburg, VA. Here a bit of 'web-support' to friends and the VT community. . http://dawidget.com/sad/