Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Show up to 200 locations on one map

It's been a repeated petition by many of you, users of Tagzania: Please, let us show more than 25 places on a map... Well, first step towards that goal: Maps embedded elsewhere can show now up to 200 markers, each with its own information bubble

You know there's a page where you can get code to paste or embed a given map in your blog or website. This user's page, for instance, and you have the option to get the code here. Now, have a look there, the controls that you can set to give your map a certain look, have a new addition: choose the number of items. The default is as it is today: 25 items. But you can switch to show 100 or 200 points.

This will work with maps based in tags, shared maps as the general Tokyo map, for instance. Or a tag for just one user, also with tag combinations. Maps pasted until now, they will show 25 items maximum as until now. But if you get the new code, you can show more...

Showing 200 points won't represent any load on our servers, but it may slow some browsers, particularly Internet Explorer. Some old browsers may get blocked or semi-blocked when several maps showing 200 points each are seen one after another...

You can check it by yourself. See maps were 100 or 200 hotels are shown in this example pages; this one shows 100 hotels, and this 200. See screenshot to see how you should see that one:



tagzania - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:53:19 -0500


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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

How Do You Sleep?

Scientists believe the position in which a person goes to sleep provides an important clue about the kind of person they are. Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the UK Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service analyzed six common sleeping positions - and found that each is linked to a particular personality type. Apparently I'm a "soldier".

Christopher Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:20:42 +0000


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swfIR

Using the dark arts of JavaScript and Flash, swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website.

Christopher Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:25:49 +0000


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Monday, February 26, 2007

Tagzania in Galician

Tagzania's interface is now in another language, Galician. This language is very close to Portuguese, learn more about Galician in the Wikipedia. A blogger and user of Tagzania, Makeijan, has provided the translation. In his blog announcement, he says the translation is open to review, and so, anyone wishing to correct or add something can contact him. This man is an active part of the web scene in his language community: he just submitted the news to the Galician Digg clone (Chuza!), so you can push it there as well. Thank you very much, Makeijan.

To switch the interface to a given language, visit the settings page. You can also choose the system of measures there, metric or anglo-american. If you haven't chosen a given language in Tagzania never (first time visitors, for instance), you will see Tagzania in the first language preference of your browser, given that it is among the 13 languages available so far.

tagzania - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:28:12 -0500


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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Virb Invites

I have 15 invites for Virb. Virb is a new "social" site similar to Myspace that combines music, blogging, and photos. Virb.com comes from Unborn Media, the same talented folks that brought you PureVolume. Anyone that is interested in playing around on the site can just leave me a lil comment with a valid email address and I'll send one your way.

Christopher Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:53:12 +0000


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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Searching in Japan

Japan is among the countries in which the new address geocoding system of Tagzania works (explained here). Initially, the geocoding feature for Japan only works with addresses written in Kanji.

You may find 〒110-8718 東京都台東区上野公園 7-20 but not 7-20 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8718 . The Google Maps API is not prepared for these Latin addresses.



However, the ajaxian posting interface of Tagzania also performs searches through Geonames, and with general Japanese placenames thus works both in Kanji or Rōmaji, the latin transliteration of Japanese. You may search for Tokorozawa or所沢市, Narita International Airport as well as 成田国際空港, and you get results both ways.

tagzania - Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:00:09 -0500


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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Caveman’s Crib

The Geico cavemen have their own little internet crib. Make sure you visit the kitchen, and check out the cookbook for a great roast duck with mango salsa recipe.

Christopher Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:09:42 +0000


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Monday, February 5, 2007

Super Bore

Super Bowl XLI was probably the most boring Super Bowl in recent memory. I didn't even enjoy any of the commercials. It very well could have been because I don't care for either team or every time I try to watch Rex Grossman play I feel there should be Benny Hill music playing in the background. Next year Grossman should be out of football and starring in his own Kevin Federline-like fry cook commercial. Prince's halftime performance was the only highlight for me.

Christopher Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:59:44 +0000


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