Google Buys Waze
In an expected move (it was almost done a few days ago, and has been in the making), Google announced it bought Waze. Waze - The Social GPS App from Israel, has been greatly popular within car drivers, helping people dodge traffic jams, road blocks, and a lot more, was created at …
Getting Distance between 2 points with MySQL Query
Calculating the distance between 2 points (longitude and latitude) certainly sounds like something that should be solved on the code layer, not on the database layer.
Defining custom XPath functions on Python lxml
Parsing with lxml (Python library ) is a very good experience, especially compared to PHP. An example advantage is that every element found by XPath is once again searchable (whereas with PHP you can only provide it as a context, but you must provide the DOM ). However, I came …
New Google Maps
I've recently got an invitation to the new Google Maps. The slick new interface allows you (among others ) to zoom way out and see the earth. More than just some Google Earth features that were implemented, the entire interface is definitely more Social oriented, you can got …
Yahoo increases Flickr's storage to 1 Tera Byte
With a move reminiscing of Google’s 1GB Inbox (Gmail) back at 2004, Yahoo is attempting to set a new standard when it comes to Photo storage.
