Mapping: When being a smart follower isn’t enough
Microsoft announced that they will debut a new mapping service, MSN Virtual Earth, this summer (thanks to Slashdot for the link). The service combines satellite images with map data, provides Sims-like isometric views, and allows layering information about businesses and services atop the search results.
This isn’t a surprising move. After all, MSN Maps have been [...]
Lawnboy
How is it that, even with all the work I put in over the weekend on our back yard, I don’t suddenly look like Jesse Metcalfe, the lawnboy on Desperate Housewives? As Larry Niven would say, TANJ. I should at least get the abs from all the exercise.
But to take a step back: we were [...]
Correction: InfoCard federates
Johannes Ernst, whom I linked from my piece on InfoCard last week, wrote in to point out that I erred in my quick description of the service. He says that in InfoCard:
…the PC does not actually store the identity information, only pointers to it. The actual identity information is stored by identity providers, who are [...]
