Long time readers of Beta Thoughts would know my love for Maps. May be this comes from the time I spent in creating GIS for Chandigarh while still at college. I was so happy when Google released its map offering with cool AJAX features. I even did a little screencast using Wink.

Today Yahoo released the Beta version of its maps application based on flash and I love it. Yahoo maps API is so easy that it takes less than few minutes to comeup with your stuff. Based up on their Javascript API I created a flash based map of the center of desi land i.e. Lawrence and El Camino cross section with a overlay of “Indian Food” You can see my favorite grocery shop in the map along with 10 other points.

So far it is only US based (I can see smoke coming out of Niks ears) Hopefully they will cover the rest of world along with a little island somewhere in Asia-Pacific.

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Tim talks about the growing inventory of Hummers at the local dealer in sunny and beautiful San Diego(the epicenter of Housing Bubble). He even clicked few photographs from the so called undisclosed location

What I liked about the post was that it shows the power of blogging or an excellent piece of citizen journalism as Dan Gilmore of BayOSphere calls it. Tim ends the post with a thoughtful metaphor

The reason that the story of rapidly rising Hummer inventory is so interesting and so amusing, is that America’s most ostentatious Sport Utility Vehicle, the Hummer SUV, is a metaphor for America in the world today - overweight, overpriced, inefficient, and unloved.

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One of the prime reasons I moved from yahoo mail to gmail was the conversations feature provided by Gmail. You can see this feature in all glory in the following image. What it shows is the response to my Happy Diwali email I sent to few of my friends

In the non-conversation world I might have ended with that many emails and it would have been so not-cool to manage them. Here on Gmail I have them tied in a nice bundle.

Technorati Tags: gmail, diwali

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May the festival of lights bring light of joy and prosperity to every day of your life…

 

 to every one.

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