I’m just now catching up on Google Reader items, so if you’ve already heard, I apologize. But Google Maps are now Flash compatible! OK, I have to be honest: I guess I didn’t realize Google Maps weren’t Flash compatible, although I should have. (Yahoo Maps is Flash-based while Google is JavaScript-based, and I knew that.) [...]

Did you see Google’s election map coverage? I’m not sure how I hadn’t seen it before, but I love it. It’s very similar to the map I want to do for Missouri’s next election.

Google’s hot trends shows what folks are searching. Many times they make sense — there were many “American Idol”-related searches after the season finale, but sometimes … they don’t. That many people were really searching for “Kansas rivers?” That’s a big school project somewhere … (I love the degrees of “hotness.”) Skybus is offering $10 [...]

During the (very strange) budget meeting Monday, someone questioned why a story on MySpace was big news — more important, why it warranted a position on A1. I tried to explain that MySpace was the largest social networking site. Proof from Hitwise: • MySpace has 5.86 percent of the total market share. Google is No. [...]

“When you care enough to hit send” — hilarious cards for nearly any situation. A wizard that creates a Google Map from a Google spreadsheet. Yay! Salary vs. performance for major league baseball. No surprise that the Royals are at the bottom of the list performance-wise; I was kinda surprised by their salary, though. Created [...]