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Thursday, 30th July 2009

Today’s News and Yahoo!’s Developer Program. “For SearchMonkey and BOSS, we currently do not have anything concrete to tell you” ... “We wanted to let you know that today’s news does not affect these products [YUI, YQL, Pipes]”.

# 12:20 pm / boss, pipes, searchmonkey, yahoo, yahoopipes, ydn, yql, yui

Collection: Search Patterns. Peter Morville’s enormous collection of screenshots of search engine interfaces.

# 12:35 pm / design, patterns, peter-morville, search, ui, usability

Making Image Overlays Easy with GGroundOverlay and GGeoXML (via) Surprisingly, there doesn’t appear to be a good online tool for helping align an overlay image with a Google Map and exporting the result as a KML file. This is the best I could find—Yahoo! used to have a tool called MapMixer but it doesn’t seem to exist any more.

# 10:58 pm / google-maps, maps, overlays

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