Geopolitics of Gas: Nabucco vs. South Stream OIL, OLIGARCHS, AND OPPORTUNITY: ENERGY FROM CENTRAL ASIA TO EUROPE Committee on Foreign Relations The United States Senate June 12, 2008 Zeyno Baran Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Eurasian Policy Hudson Institute On gas, the challenge is bigger due to the nature of natural gas as a tradable commodity—there is no global market, and the construction of costly pipelines effectively locks consumers into a prolonged contract with producers. This means that Moscow can more easily manipulate dependence into political and economic leverage. The signing of the South Stream pipeline project took place in Moscow between Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and outgoing Russian president Vladimir Putinon April 29. Baumgarten is critically important in Russian strategy. No Western company has the kind of partnership with its state as Gazprom has with the Kremlin.
Curso: Crea tu propio mashup con Google Maps (Última Parte) Google Hoy por fin acabamos el curso para crear tu propio mashup con Google Maps que empezamos hace unas semanas. En las entregas anteriores mostramos como crear la base de datos MySQL y los PHPs necesarios para acceder a la base de datos y al API de Google Maps para mostrar los mapas. En esta última entrega veremos como mostrar los datos guardados previamente en la base de datos y los retoques finales de la aplicación. Paso 5: Visualización de datos En este paso vamos a crear una página PHP que nos sirva de index para nuestro sitio, que tiene que poseer la siguiente funcionalidad: Mostrar el mapa de Google Maps Mostrar los restaurantes ya posicionados (acceder a la Base de Datos y consultarlos). Nada mas empezar creamos varias variables que utilizaremos en el resto del fichero php: A continuación, también incluimos el fichero introducir.php, para poder introducir datos desde la misma página. Ahora ya comienza el código de verdad. Seguimos con el código. Enlace | Código completo del curso
The state of mapping APIs Guest blogger Adam DuVander is the author of “Map Scripting 101,” an example-driven guide to building interactive maps on multiple platforms. He also serves as executive editor of ProgrammableWeb. Maps took over the web in mid-2005, shortly after the first Where 2.0 conference. They quickly moved from fancy feature to necessary element of any site that contained even a trace of geographic content. Today we’re amidst another location and mapping revolution, with mobile making its impact on the web. Though the map itself continues to be important, other geographic data is having a larger impact. The old guard Google had the first mapping API and continues to keep its lead by adding useful new features. Another sign of mobile’s influence on mobile appears in how Google is making some of its newest services available. Yahoo has done little to expand its mapping platform in recent years, though it is almost as old as Google’s. The newcomers Where have all the hackers gone? Mapping the future
Web 2.0 workplaces [PICS] - UADDit Web 2.0 is special. And so are the places that make it happen.Here's how the offices of web 2.0 companies look like. I've also added descriptions to each site in case you've been living in a bubble and don't know what they do. Loved and hated by many and founded in march of 2006, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. The Twitter door. The social network of the moment. With this success, Zuckerberg, Moskowitz and Hughes moved out to Palo Alto for the summer and rented a sublet. Mark putting some to-do items in the impossible whiteboard behind the cabinet Digg is a user driven social content website. In the fall of 2004, Kevin Rose came up with the idea for Digg. Craigslist is a man’s online classifieds that anyone can use. Mozilla is an open-source software project that uses a community-based approach to develop and provide applications such as the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client.
Les 20 meilleurs mashups cartographiques français 16 septembre 2008 par Renaud · 24 Commentaires Catégorie(s) : Mashups Cela fait un moment que je souhaitais vous présenter une sélection des meilleurs mashups "made in France". Je vous avouerais que la tâche fut rude. Je souhaite donc vous présenter des sites français où la qualité de l’interface cartographique et les fonctionnalités ont été travaillées, apportant une vraie plus-value à l’utilisateur. Vous retrouverez dans la liste des sites dont j’ai déjà parlé et qui sont dans la catégorie Mashups de Renalid.com mais aussi des sites que je n’ai jamais présenté. En bonus, une vidéo de 3 minutes présentant la sélection : Les 20 meilleurs Mashups français sur Vimeo, YouTube ou DailyMotion J’attends donc vos commentaires aiguisés sur cette sélection! Recherche locale / Réseaux sociaux DisMoiOù DisMoiOù est bien plus qu’un annuaire. Voiture & déplacement Pratique Voyage TVTrip Après Trivop, TVTrip est un autre acteur offrant un video-guide d’hôtels. Geek
Maps Help Vous pouvez créer des cartes personnalisées avec la version bêta de Maps Engine Lite. Ainsi, vous pouvez par exemple créer une carte des meilleurs restaurants de votre région. Les cartes personnalisées que vous créez peuvent ensuite être ouvertes dans Google Maps. Si vous avez par le passé créé des cartes personnalisées à l'aide de la fonctionnalité "Mes cartes", vous pouvez quand même les ouvrir dans Google Maps. Créer une carte personnalisée Connectez-vous à la version classique de Google Maps. Remarque : Nous vous recommandons de suivre les instructions ci-dessus pour créer des cartes personnalisées. Ouvrir une carte personnalisée Vous pouvez ouvrir dans la version classique de Google Maps vos cartes créées à l'aide de la fonctionnalité "Mes cartes" ainsi que vos cartes Maps Engine. Connectez-vous à la version classique de Google Maps.
Weaponizing GPS Tracking Devices News Millions of websites, applications from Cisco and VMware, Google Play apps, as well as millions of Android devices are vulnerable -- and the list keeps growing.By Mathew J. Schwartz , 4/17/2014 2 comments | Read | Post a Comment Quick Hits Many users fail to follow policies on mobile, cloud security, EMA Research study says.By Tim Wilson Editor in Chief, Dark Reading, 4/10/2014 12 comments | Read | Post a Comment Fifth annual DEF CON Social Engineering Capture the Flag Contest kicks off today with new "tag team" rules to reflect realities of the threat.By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading, 4/7/2014 9 comments | Read | Post a Comment Commentary The Queens County DA recently arrested two Jamaica Hospital employees for stealing patient data, a lucrative crime occurring at hospitals across the nation. 16 comments | Read | Post a Comment 14 comments | Read | Post a Comment The Internet of Things is creating 50 billion Internet-connected devices. 0 comments | Read | Post a Comment
Crowdsourcing: Can We Crowdsource Medical Expertise? Earlier this morning I received an email from Christine Maynard, a writer and consultant from Natchez, Louisiana. I'm not sure if she heard me on the radio or came across crowdsourcing in some other way, but she raises an issue I've been wanting to dig into ever since publishing the original crowdsourcing article over two years ago: To what degree could the crowd lend its brainpower to the process of, say, diagnosing or suggesting treatments for diseases? One is tempted to dismiss this notion out of hand. Let the crowd count birds, develop cell phone applications, even create a new restaurant. Greetings, Jeff.Crowdsourcing would work for taking CT and MRI reading out of the hands of [radiologists] and into the hands of individuals who have become medical experts in pursuit of their own elusive diagnoses. I don't know if missing the mark exactly the norm, but it's certainly a frequent occurrence. I'm getting a lot of additional traffic today due to all those afore-posted radio gigs.
eMaps Mapsandimages is addressed to people who love, study or use maps; on Mapsandimages you are allowed to access high resolution images; you can buy digital files and order typographical prints of your favorite image. Mapsandimages hosts collections of outstanding value either for their contents or rarity. At the moment the acquisition of Vladimiro Valerio’s cartographical collection is in progress; 613 images, of this collection, belonging to 15 atlases and 9 large scale maps, are already on line.
Static Map Wizard Create a map with a marker and optional info window. This wizard uses the Google Static Maps API v2. It originally used Static Maps API v1, but that API is now deprecated. Please see the upgrade guide for information on upgrading. Customize Map View, Marker Location, & Paths To change the map view: Use the map control to zoom in/out to the desired zoom level. To create a marker: Enter the desired address/location in the box and press the button. To add a path: You can optionally click on the map to indicate a starting point for a path. Map Data Terms of Use Customize Size & Preview Generate URL