Smart Buildings Make Smooth Moves. Architects develop shape-shifting structures that morph in response to changing weather, fluctuating temperatures and differing uses. Imagine a skyscraper that braces itself in gusty winds, or a house that shakes the snow from its roof. By Lakshmi Sandhana. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

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Edit This Wired News Story. Reporter Ryan Singel files a 1,000-word story on the wiki phenomenon. In keeping with its spirit, we're throwing it on a wiki for collaborative editing by our readers. If you don't participate you can't complain about the results. By Wired News Staff. [Wired News: Top Stories]

 

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When X Doesn't Mark the Spot. With more agencies building geographic information systems, standards are key to making them work right. Learn more at www.esri.com/standards. [ESRI.com - News]

 

11:02:19 AM    

 

New Video Series Gives People a Window into GIS. CD Available at No Cost for GIS Day Events Around the World [ESRI.com - News]

 

11:01:09 AM    

 

Podcasts of University Lectures?. theslashdot asks: "I'm working at a major university in the US, and have been charged with posting pod-casts of class lectures on the internet. The problem is whether or not posting the videos would allow students to skip class and just download the lecture, instead. I guess the problem is trying to strike the right balance between allowing good students to take advantage of this resource, but discourage bad students from staying at home all the time and watching all the lectures right before the exam. So what methods can be used to provide these pod-casts for the students who actually attended class? In terms of when the lecture should be posted, what would be a good time-frame? Immediately after the class? 24 hours? One week? One class behind schedule?" [Slashdot]

 

10:59:56 AM    

 

Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source. An anonymous reader writes "Google recently released Tesseract as open source. Originally developed at the HP Labs from 1985-1995, it has been touted as one of the most accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs available. Having sat on the shelf gathering dust for so many years, Google cleaned up some of the more outdated portions of the code and released it for general consumption. You can download Tesseract over at Sourceforge. [Slashdot]

 

10:58:36 AM    

 

Who (Really) Writes Wikipedia. Nico ? La ! writes "Aaron Swartz questions Jimbo Wales' (wikimedia's founder) belief and evangelized truth that only around 500 people are the most important contributors to wikipedia. Whereas the truth is that they probably are the people who do the most editing. From the post 'For example, the largest portion of the Anaconda article was written by a user who only made 2 edits to it (and only 100 on the entire site). By contrast, the largest number of edits were made by a user who appears to have contributed no text to the final article (the edits were all deleting things and moving things around).' " Which ultimately means that Wikipedia in some ways much more closely mimics a real encyclopedia, with many contributors writing the bulk of the content, but a small group massaging that text to insure standards compliance with the overall work. Interesting thing there and worth your time, although the super-computer thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  [Slashdot]

 

10:57:15 AM    

 

Steak n Shake Selects MapInfo (Business Wire).

Steak n Shake Selects MapInfo Location Intelligence to Help Guide Expansion

From: Business Wire
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:24:15 AM    

 

TeleNav GPS Navigator 5.0 Intro'd (Business Wire).

TeleNav Launches Only Mobile-Phone-Based 3D GPS Navigation Service in the US

From: Business Wire
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:23:20 AM    

 

Nokia Buys gate5 (Nokia).

Nokia Acquires gate5 to Add Robust Mapping and Navigation to Its Devices

From: Nokia
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:22:05 AM    

 

State-Wide, Open Systems GIS Watershed Portal

Vendors Selected for KWMIP Pilot Project (GISCafe).

Vendors Bring Expertise to Standards-based Watershed Portal

From: GISCafe
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

10:20:50 AM    

 

Ever planted on structure?  Coordinated with arch/structural engineers, drainage and irrigation water provision?

Latest Revit Solutions Released (PR Newswire).

Latest Autodesk Solutions Boost Productivity for Architects and Structural Engineers

From: PR Newswire
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:16:54 AM    

 

Low Voltage Systems...

D-Tools Unveils SI 5 (HiddenWires).

D-Tools Unveils System Integrator 5 at CEDIA Expo

From: HiddenWires
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:13:22 AM    

 

Archicad 10 Supports Intel-Based Macs (Graphisoft).

Archicad 10 Runs Native on Intel-Based Apple Macs

From: Graphisoft
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

10:09:52 AM    

 

Introducing the one-watt lightbulb. Blog: We often hear of innovations that promise to drastically changehow we use light, but this one truly hits home: a one-watt lightbulb.EcoGeek... [CNET News.com]

 

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