February 9, 2005
Yet Another Google News
Google Code Jam 2005 comes to India. Java and C++ geeks, fold up you sleeves and get-set-go.
Google Maps [Beta, ofcourse] was out yesterday. And as expected it must have taken other map providers [yahoo and mapquest] by a huge surprise with it's draggable maps. For Google users in the US it's a huge welcome as Google maps is well integrated with Google Local. Even if you are outside US, give it a shot by typing in your very distant cousin's address who lives in either Dallas or the Bay Area. You would appreciate. I am hoping it would get better.
With 50 email invites to everyone, the assumption of GMAIL going live very soon, gets thicker. More.
Comments (13)
Google maps supera irukku thaliva!
Posted by: Prabhu Venkatramani | February 10, 2005 1:11 AM
check out !! video.google.com
its not as good as allTheWeb.com's video search
this is still in beta.
Posted by: Keerthivasan | February 10, 2005 6:22 AM
A small tip for code jam takers,
have a lot of pre written libraries for string parsing, it will be quite handy.
Also a little bit of STL goes a long way.
Posted by: Morpheus | February 10, 2005 6:48 AM
Speaking of google maps, i got this link that discusses the technology behind google maps.
http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html
got this link through another guy who is into tech and photography and a hell lot of other things
padup.blogspot.com
hellboy
Posted by: hellboy | February 10, 2005 9:54 AM
Interesting read -
http://news.com.com/Google+blogger+has+left+the+building/2100-1038_3-5567863.html?tag=nl
Google maps is cool - the shadows look cool.
Posted by: Arun | February 10, 2005 8:09 PM
Wonder what you bloggers think about a fellow blogger being fired for blogging ;-)
Posted by: Arun | February 10, 2005 8:10 PM
I just saw that even my invite quota was increased to 50.
Google maps just rocks. I spent nearly an hour yesterday tracing the Interstate 10 across the country from a place called NEw Orleans to Los Angeles. Real fun. But requires a lot of bandwidth.
And are you joining it?
Posted by: sathishcj | February 11, 2005 12:25 AM
HellBoy, Thanks for that lovely pointer. Cool stuff.
Sat, Not sure If I will join. But I would love to. The only problem is availability.
Arun, yeah I did read about Mark Jen. It is very disappointing. Let's wait for google's take on this.
Posted by: Lazy Geek | February 11, 2005 12:55 AM
Hi LG,
My comment in not related to Google. I wanted you to post the information about "Thiruvaskam in symphony" by Illayaraja, release date of which was announced by IR himself in a press meet yesterday. You can read the full article in chennai online. Please post a blog on it to spread word of mouth about this ambitious project.
Smile
Sureshkumar
Posted by: Suresh | February 11, 2005 10:44 AM
Yeah, thanks suresh. I did saw the news on the cable. Will post it. I have already posted a couple of posts on this in 2003, when the project was first announced. Check this
http://www.lazygeek.net/archives/2003/09/thiruvasakam_in_symphony_illayaraja.html
and
http://www.lazygeek.net/archives/2003/11/thanksgiving_to_illayaraja_the_guy.html
Posted by: Lazy Geek | February 11, 2005 10:54 AM
you could possibly do better to look after your apostrophes carefully.
Posted by: guest | February 11, 2005 6:55 PM
Hey lg,
i happened to land at ur blog through ...google of course.... i wonder whether you have seen this link
http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ols-master.html
It takes u on a ride on the possibilities that lay ahead in the face of google's innovations.
btw, gr8 blog ..esp gr8 review of black!
ciao
Karthik
Posted by: karthik | February 13, 2005 10:16 AM
Your site is realy very interesting.
Posted by: Ivailo | July 15, 2005 9:49 PM