Nokia-powered Yahoo Maps (NokiHoo) have just gone live in the US and Canada: maps.yahoo.com; espanol.maps.yahoo.com; ca.maps.yahoo.com andqc.maps.yahoo.com.
That's the word from Greg Sterling writing at Search Engine Land. He poked around (thanks!) and says the new offering is not impressive, but more is on the way.
I will note that this is the second piece of news this week (the first being Google's plan to actually implement caps on its Maps API) that are "news," but that really impact very few people.
- Search Engine Land
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 11:06 AM |
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This week two news items peaked our interest: Good Jobs First, a Washington research center, released a report giving mediocre grades to state websites that aim to be transparent about the distribution of federal stimulus dollars. One of the criteria considered? Maps. Second, is there a trend in local news related to sat nav? Is there a move away from “two techs capturing data” stories to how users can get involved with collection and update?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/04 at 01:00 AM |
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CBR (Computer Business Review) offers a “business-y” interview. I’m not sure why the author describes it as rare; Dangermond has always been generous with his time for journalists. There are some statements worthy of note (below), but the responses tend to confirm what those who’ve been working with ESRI already know (unlikely to buy or become a public company, is not consumer focused, but rather professionally focused, focused on Windows).
The interesting statements:
“Microsoft, with the acquisition of Navteq, and Nokia will play into that space [mapping technologies] as well as larger players.”
[That’s an error; Nokia acquired NAVTEQ.]
“ESRI is philosophically very supportive of the open source movement and we have engineered our tools so they live inside an open source sandwich.”
[I’m not sure what an open source sandwich is, but certainly ESRI and many other proprietary solutions work with open source. ESRI and others build their solutions on some open source code, too.]
“I don’t think we do [face much competition from open source]. It’s a political movement as well as a technical effort. People who buy our products don’t typically want to buy open source because they want to acquire total integrated support for their mission critical applications.”
[Open source software has no license or royalty fee.]
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/15 at 07:29 AM |
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