iBegin Places “Wiki” for informal spaces

Ahmed, who’s behind a “lab” site called ibegin.com, sent in this introduction to the sites latest project, iBegin Places.

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A Map for World AIDS Day

Dec 1, 2008 is the 20th annual World AIDS Day. Global Voices offers this map of HIV+ bloggers and caretakers, and other citizen media related to HIV/AIDS. It’s embedded below, along with a link, if the map is not visible.

via Global Voices

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Irony: Google Uses Undocumented iPhone APIs

No doubt you’ve heard this: “A Google spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Google Mobile uses undocumented APIs (application programming interfaces) in order to use the iPhone’s proximity sensor to prompt a verbal search.” (C|net) We do all recall that Google Maps mashups started because someone (Mr.  Paul Rademacher, who now works at Google) did something like the same thing, right?

A Collection of Maps on the Mumbai Bombings

These are just a sampling of maps related to the coverage of last week’s attacks:

Mapmash offers a timeline map. Reference is to Wikipedia. (Thanks for including source information!)

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