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Wed Nov 5 13:00:56 PST 2008
- An interactive world map that displayed satellite photos on a mouse click
in the selected region. This eventually became a product released on laser
videodisc, by Optical Data Corp.<br>
-Sponsored lots of cool spatial hypermedia by Gloriana Davenport' students
at The MIT Media Lab, including hyper maps of the Charles River in Boston/Cambridge,
and a hyper map of New Orleans.<br>
- Hypercard extensions that dynamically rendered CIA vector maps - Chris
Thorman's project<br>
- A prototype video augmented reality - Ken Doyle<br>
- A navigable movie map of the market place in La Paz Boliva - Ken Doyle<br>
- The Terraform project- a unified global information system iincluding prospective
partnerships with ESRI, SGI, and JPL<br>
- A partnership with Lucasfilm and National Geographic to build spatial information
systems for kids - This project was ultimately comandeered by marketing types
who ended up producing [lame] GTV (geography television) episodes, instead.<br>
- A mammoth interactive globe for Disney Epcot - with Disney Imagineering
( way too expensive to actually build)<br>
- A lot of other personal early research on 'spatially persistant information'
which inspired later extended work by Jim Spohrer who published a great paper
at IBM called 'Worldboard'<br>
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After Apple, IBM I was hired as Chief Technology Officer at Times Mirror
publishing ( LA Times parent company) involved in a few interesting geo projects:<br>
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- Collaboration with Jeppson Sanderson, a TM company that produces 90% of
the flight maps for all commercial, and civil pilots. Work included detailed
proposal for a prospective collaboration with ESRI.<br>
- A novel Earth information system with artist Ron Cobb at Rocket Science
video games ( a TM investment) <br>
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After a couple of years at Netscape, and another couple of years in the 2-way
satellite business ( Tachyon), and, then a couple more working on big network
projects in China and India, I have started up again, on a radical and comprehensive
new idea for location based services. I've presented ideas to Google and
Cometa, the IBM, ATT, Intel 802.11 startup. Both were very interested, but
way too busy with other stuff right now to invest any $ or headcount for
a 'few months' - so I am forging ahead anyway. I'm interested in getting
to know possible collaborators, who may be interested in jumping in if/when
I get funded.<br>
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Meanwhile if no one puts up the $$$ in these grim times, I am contemplating
spilling out all my ideas in a book on 'The Digital Earth, and the Geospatial
Web'. A few people I really respect ( Tom Kalil, Al Gore's tech advisor,
Dave Nagel CEO, Palmsource, and Don Norman, UI guru, ) have all encouraged
me to do the book anyway.<br>
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I haven't begun a serious blog yet, but will probably get around to it shortly-
</font></small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">but I've
posted </font></small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> few
links to favorite geo-related websites on my</font></small><small><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> very sparse website, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.starhill.us">www.starhill.us</a>
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Here's two essential links for everybody:<br>
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<small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cybergeography.org/">http://www.cybergeography.org/</a>
managed by Martin Dodge, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University
College London, <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.digitalearth.org/">http://www.digitalearth.org/</a> - A newish blog of all types of cool geo related
stuff.</font></small><br>
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'Spatial Spam' is one of my current big worries. It's inevitible, unless
we begin thinking deeply, right now, about appropriate mitigation.<br>
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Thanks again to Joshua and Anselm Hook for igniting this community, and to
Tim O'reilly for providing a great forum for geo stuff at the Emerging Tech
conference last week.<br>
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Cheers-<br>
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<small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Mike Liebhold<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mnl at well.com">mnl at well.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.starhill.us">http://www.starhill.us</a></font>
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