Archive for January, 2009

Privacy notice

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

I have added a privacy notice on the bookmarklet page. It reads:

“Because of the hosted nature of this bookmarklet (hosted on the Mapanui.com server), please be advised that Mapanui is able to see where it is being used, as it is called from the referring site (the site with the address you want to map). We are not able to identify you, nor do we use this referral information at all. But if you feel uncomfortable with this, then please don’t use the Mapanui bookmarklet.”

I felt that I should let users know before they use it. This is the same for any bookmarklet, be it Microsoft Oomph, or Evernote or whatever.
I also added a UserVoice feedback link and a ShareThis link.

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Show your cards

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Inspired by Meitar Moscovitz article “A Little-known Way to Replace Some Scripts with CSS Counters” over at SitePoint, I’ve added a little bit of CSS to make the hCard microformat pop out of the page, while counting all occurrences and adding it to the bottom of the page, no JavaScript involved.

Next I’d like to add interactivity to the hCard, so that when you click it, it shows up on the Mapanui pane, in stead of clicking on the link(s) at the bottom of the pane. Some next version…

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Twitter following vs followers

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Interesting tidbit. I’ve been on Twitter as @mapanui for a while now, only having 6 followers of which 4 were, euh, me… So nothing much happened, as you can expect. Then yesterday I decided to go to some people’s following lists, see who would be interesting, and started following them, again on @mapanui, just to spread some more Mapanui love (well, it’s just some basic marketing actually:).

Now, the interesting fact is, I get more people following me, who I wasn’t following myself. Lots of “entrepreneurial” types it seems, people who are already following lots of others, but not necessarily the people I was targeting. I was rather looking for users, regular folk, like you and me.

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Ignite Sydney – January 22

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Remember Ignite Spatial? Coming up, Ignite Sydney:

“If you’re sick of Death By Powerpoint, then come along to Ignite Sydney, where you’re guaranteed a fun night of entertaining and educational presentations.”

Speakers and subjects include:

  • Matt Moore : Words at work – what links Flickr, mind maps, and a vengeful God?
  • Jason Yip : Lean programming (the fridge vs the radiator)
  • Kieran Ots : A year of failed projects (and what I learned from them)
  • Richard Lane : Mapping the sky – Is bigger always better?
  • Pamela Fox : HTML5 vs Flex for Rich Internet Applications
  • Jeremy LeBard : Australians are a nation of readers. Why do we need Amazon?
  • Geoff Bowers: Setting Fire To Your Community. A tale of Japanese mummies, karmic balance and benevolent dictators
  • Chloe Mason : Why Sydney needs active travel
  • Meitar Moscovitz : How technology influences sexual awareness (and vice versa)
  • Mark Pollard : 7 things you can learn from hip-hop

See you there!?

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Mapanui v1.2

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Finally put beta changes live:
- horizontal resize, love this one;
- conditional zoom, when you search for a street address, map will be zoomed in closer, then when looking for a place name (nice tip I got at BarCamp preso, thanks for that);
- Google Local search, search for local business

Hope you enjoy!

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