Autodesk Vice president of Learning and Education a Familiar Face

Autodesk put out a PR today noting new resoures for education (architecture, design, engineering and digital entertainment). In it, the VP of Learning and Education, Joe Astroth, is quoted:

Our commitment to education among the architecture, design, engineering and digital entertainment fields has gained momentum with our newest curricula and expanded access to our Education Suites. Our goal is for faculty to gain the educational resources and technical expertise they need to help students prepare for successful careers. We believe these offerings make a substantial impact.

Astroth led Autodesk’s geospatial and location-based services businesses earlier in his career. He has a PhD in geography.

My students at Penn State take advantage of Autodesk’s student access to software.

GPS Satellites to Get Better Clocks

Massachusetts based PerkinElmer received a $15 million contract from ITT to update the atomic clock technology it provides for the Global Positioning System satellites.

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RoundUp of Gov 2.0 Summit Coverage

Yesterday and today O’Reilly Media and TechWeb are hosting the Gov 2.0 Summit. Much of chatter on Twitter has referenced geo. Here’s a roundup of coverage.

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MapTango: Does the world need another mapping/social/post photos app?

One new way to announce your new geo product is to follow a geo publication on Twitter. It seems to work - I did go check out @maptango which had no tweets, but did have a link. That led me to the app and a “post” on the app that the beta was now open. What is it? Per the site:

MapTango is a geosocial application that enables you to create unique views of information and photos by creating custom maps and gives you the ability to communicate with friends and interact relative to location and time.

The app, Google Maps-based, looks like all those “put Tweets on map” type apps. I chose not to sign up and instead looked for more information. I found the only coverage at KillerStartups.com (which seems to have changed business models since last I visited). That discussion didn’t offer much beyond the fact that MapTango can post geotagged images and that posts to MapTango can be forwarded as tweets.

The company behind MapTango is called Scalable Architectures, LLC.

I’m looking forward to statements from the company about this offering is different from all the others out there.