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	<title>dan.lucas &#187; Google</title>
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		<title>Editable Google Maps&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/dlucas/2008/03/19/editable-google-maps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that&#8217;s interesting.  Apparently you can now edit any business entry in Google maps.  For example, these guys tried to change the web address of a local Republican Party office to fleshbot.com.  Lovely.  
To see recent edits,  you can go here, but from what I can tell it&#8217;s just an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that&#8217;s interesting.  Apparently you can now edit any business entry in Google maps.  For example, <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_now_editable_by_an.php">these guys</a> tried to change the web address of a local Republican Party office to fleshbot.com.  Lovely.  </p>
<p>To see recent edits,  you can go <a href="http://mw1.google.com/staticfiles/gmre/index.html">here</a>, but from what I can tell it&#8217;s just an unstoppable moving map showing each recent edit in order.</p>
<p>I really have no idea how they plan on stopping vandals from basically ruining their map.  Wikipedia does it with a small army of dedicated folks who have good guidelines on how to deal with vandalism.  Right now I don&#8217;t see anything like that on Google Maps.  Guess everyone will have to keep an eye on their address to make sure it&#8217;s in the right spot (I already changed mine so that it actually points to my house instead of a block down the road).  Businesses especially will have to keep a sharp eye out since anyone can change anything on the map, even the business&#8217; name.</p>
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		<title>safari and google stuffs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/dlucas/2007/11/15/safari-and-google-stuffs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safari]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s due to the recent update of Mac OS X.4 to 10.4.11 (which came with a non-beta version of Safari 3) or if it had something to do with the recoding of Gmail or both, but I just noticed that Gmail and Google Reader both work a lot better than before [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s due to the recent update of Mac OS X.4 to 10.4.11 (which came with a non-beta version of Safari 3) or if it had something to do with the recoding of Gmail or both, but I just noticed that Gmail and Google Reader both work a lot better than before in Safari.  Google Talk integration seems to work in Gmail now, more Gmail shortcuts work (like hitting Tab then Space while composing a message sends it), and Reader doesn&#8217;t have that annoying bug where if your list of entries were long enough the page wouldn&#8217;t scroll down as you navigated through the entries.</p>
<p>Awesome, it was small things like this that prevented me from using Safari more regularly.  As much as I like Firefox it&#8217;s slower and takes up more memory on my machine so if I can regulate it to &#8220;use when necessary&#8221; status (for when I&#8217;m developing a website or researching Zotero for instance, got to love those plugins) I&#8217;ll be a happy camper.</p>
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		<title>finally&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/dlucas/2006/09/25/finally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The best way to use Google Maps.  Beer Mapping.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best way to use Google Maps.  <a href="http://beermapping.com/">Beer Mapping</a>.</p>
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		<title>Google Life&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/dlucas/2006/08/20/google-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Life experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web applications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google recently opened up their document editing webapp, Writely, to the general public.  It&#8217;s in beta (of course) but it looks like they are pretty far along as I&#8217;ve already made a nice document with it and didn&#8217;t have much trouble.  It worked so nicely in fact, that it gave me an idea.
You [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google recently opened up their document editing webapp, <a href="http://www.writely.com/">Writely</a>, to the general public.  It&#8217;s in beta (of course) but it looks like they are pretty far along as I&#8217;ve already made a nice document with it and didn&#8217;t have much trouble.  It worked so nicely in fact, that it gave me an idea.</p>
<p>You see, classes are about to start here in Chapel Hill and I wonder if webapps have gotten to the point where I could replace my office software with nothing but these online applications.  So starting in a few days I will spend a month using the online tools and see how they effective they are in helping me get my work done &#8212; papers, organization, and number-crunching for research.  Other work, like web design and development will still be done with my normal text and image editors, but I will attempt to organize that work with the same applications.  Speaking of which, here are the apps I&#8217;m going to use.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.writely.com/">Writely in place of Word</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com">Google Spreadsheets</a> instead of Excel</li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/">Google Calendar</a> instead of <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/">iCal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mail.google.com">Gmail</a> instead of&#8230; nothing as I already use Gmail regularly.</li>
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<p>Now you realize why I called this post Google Life.</p>
<p>Of course, there are other issues surrounding all this such as privacy and the sanity of keeping so much data on the web, but I won&#8217;t be addressing that.  I&#8217;m only focusing on functionality.  I&#8217;m really interested in seeing how this will effect collaboration with other students as my school likes to use a lot of group projects.  Hopefully I can convince some of my classmates to use the collaboration features of these applications and I hope that I don&#8217;t mess up other people in their work.</p>
<p>Wish me luck!</p>
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