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The Keyhole Markup Language (KML) was developed for Google Earth as a way to overlay user-generated content on maps. A KML file uses XML to record details like the place name and its coordinates on the latitude and longitude. Other data can be included in the file to make the view more specific, such as tilt, heading and altitude. Since its release in 2006, the KML file format has been increasingly adopted by more and more application developers. From its use in Flickr, Microsoft Virtual Earth to GPS applications on the phone, the KML file format has received industry wide acceptance. It is due to this accomplishment that the latest version of this file format has received accreditation from the Open Geospatial Consortium, an international voluntary consensus standards organisation, by making it a open standard for all ‘geobrowsers’ like Google Earth, etc.
You can use KML files to send addresses or show a location to someone. To make one, you need to know the latitude and longitude of the place, and visit the online Google Earth KML Creator. Once made, the files can be viewed on any online mapping service that supports the KML file format. Here is a KML file displayed in Google Maps, showing all the national parks of India. Adding these KML tags to your Flickr albums will allow you and others to find your photos for any search conducted on their location name.
Do you have alternative uses for KML files? Let us know in the comments below!
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How do you get your staff to keep themself up-to-date and aware of a constantly-moving business environment?? How do employees sitting in different time zones collaborate with each other??
Wikis are a perfect solutions to increase collaboration.
Fast Company profiles Disney Executive Vice President of Digital Media Albert Cheng, and how a wiki is at the center of his 20 month old digital media department’s reinvention of TV distribution.
Corporate wikis have become an online means for companies to keep track of what’s going on internally.The Wiki allows Disney employees to review new social- networking applications, compare vendors, and share their latest projects.
Disney’s case reflect how a wiki can be the information, collaboration, and social hub of a group (133,000 employees around the world). Creating a directory of staff profiles helps people hone their wiki editing skills, tell others about themselves, and become more deeply connected to the rest of the community on the wiki.
Forbes.com in late April debuted a beta version of Corporate Org Chart Wiki. The collaborative Web application invites people to contribute what they know about company organizational charts. Since its launch, the wiki has accumulated about 8,500 company charts with employee data.
Wikis have two main benefits:
- They boost group productivity and also act as a business knowledge base where information is logged and easily accessible.
- The constantly-changing nature of wiki means it may never be completely finished, but it does remain up-to-date.
Wikis, along with other content technologies that enable quick content aggregation from a multitude of sources, are allowing both individuals and institutions to collaborate on custom content collections more easily than ever before.
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Scott McNealy, the legendary chairman and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, is optimistic about the growth of the Internet and believes the dot-com bust is a thing of the past.
He believes that the real growth of Internet is happening - an average of over 2 million users are added per day. The world wide web is recording electronic transactions of over $228 billion, deploying ERP, CRM and Web 2.0 technologies, while the use of mails, blogs and instant messengers are on a rise.
McNealy cited that the world was witnessing the third wave in technological innovation. The first was about enterprise solutions where information was digitised and systems created to enhance productivity. The second wave was about the Internet and related technologies. The third wave, McNealy adds, is about participation.
In 1990’s $100 billion was raised in one year fell to a low of $4 billion in 2002, in 2005 some 500 companies web2.0 companies raised $3.2 billion. Last year 700 such companies raised $4billion in first quarter.
The web 1.0 bubble was a mix of stock market hype and underperforming companies that resulted in a disastrous tech crash. In a way i think many companies learned a lot from dot com bust, the digital envirinment is now completely different from what it used to be in early 2000’s.
I still have some concerns about the Web 2.0 bubble; most web 2.0 sites rely a lot on advertising and very less on users paying for a service. How many users in a social networking website participate constructively, what value are they going to bring to customers at the end of the day??
Its easy to build a ‘me too website’ (Clone) but very tough to build a community. Technology and features are no longer a deterrent, but community is. I strongly feel there will be only few winners and many flop shows in the web 2.0 arena.
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