Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

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 2008 (which makes it one of the firsts of its kind).

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.

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 across a case where I needed to split the result to a list (split on python, explode on PHP).

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 photos of the places you're looking at a lot easier.

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.