Evan Parker

"This comparison is based on unlimited data, unlimited voice, and unlimited text messaging. The iPhone comes in as the most costly device at $3800 over two years. The Palm Pre was the cheapest at $2600, with the G1 falling in the middle at $3150." - Evan Parker

Adorable!! - Susan Beebe

"Since most other smartphones of this class either don't come with on-board GPS navigation, or charge you for it, we felt it was notable that Sprint and Palm are giving away what feels like a very usable GPS app with the Pre. We used the software -- which does turn-by-turn / text-to-speech directions -- while driving from San Diego to LA, and it worked flawlessly." - Evan Parker

"Toyota Motor Corp. believes that, in response to the diversification of energy sources, plug-in hybrid vehicles are currently the most suitable environmentally considerate vehicles for widespread use" Finally! Not for consumers yet though, only for "corporate and municipal" customers at first :( - Evan Parker

This is a really cool feature. The technology behind it and the UI are both awesome. - Evan Parker

2 Falcon 9 launches this year? As always SpaceX is ambitious, let's see if they can deliver... - Evan Parker

Handy. I like the little compass arrow that accompanies every result. - Evan Parker

"Today the Local Business Center team is rolling out a new feature: a dashboard that will provide you with information on how Google users are interacting with your local listing in Google Maps and Google Search." - Evan Parker

Kudos to Paul and Mihai for the awesome new 2D-3D view matching code (and much of the rest of the new code) - the transition is seamless! Check it out in the video on this blog post. - Evan Parker

"Welcome to the release of version 3 of the Google Maps API. This JavaScript API will look similar to the existing version 2 of the Google Maps API. However, much has changed under the hood: Version 3 (called V3 within this document) has been designed to load fast, especially on mobile browsers such as Android-based devices and the iPhone™. The initial launch has a smaller feature set than that available in the V2 API. We will migrate additional features from V2 while working to keep the size of the JavaScript code small and maintain our optimized loading speeds." Launched at Google I/O. Congrats to Ben Appleton and the rest of the Maps API team on the launch! - Evan Parker

Here's the blog post: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009.... - Evan Parker

I took a bunch of photos at the Maker Fair today and am trying to upload them. One. By. One. - Evan Parker

Finally gave up on that method and copied photos to computer using picasa before uploading to picasaweb. Added bonus: this method preserves the photo's location stored in the EXIF header by android. Uploading directly from android does not. - Evan Parker

Final product: http://picasaweb.google.com/eparker.... Favorite picture: a raccoon with wings: http://picasaweb.google.com/eparker.... - Evan Parker

what is this wave that you speak of? - Rob Schonberger

oh, sorry, I meant walkabout ;) - Evan Parker

Has there been some new announcement? I haven't heard. - Rob Schonberger

"Google Wave is an attempt to "combine conversation-type communication and collaboration-type communication," said Lars Rasmussen, who launched the project with his brother Jens after Google acquired their mapping start-up in 2004. It's a little bit Twitter, a little bit Friendfeed, and a little bit Facebook all in one service, allowing you to send direct messages to online contacts with real-time replies, share photos or documents, and add or delete members of the conversation as needed." Wow, I didn't think we would announce this so soon. Also, check out the demo video at http://wave.google.com/. - Evan Parker

I shared, this too, hehe. http://ff.im/3lb82 but dang, I was one upped with a link! Thanks Evan! - Chieze Okoye

The conference cost money to register ($50 for students, $300 early bird, $400 non early bird), so it's not exactly free, but that's still a damn cool gift IMO. - Evan Parker

wow man, that totally rocks!!! Wish I was there, and also a developer :) - Jacob

Wow. Very cool. Can't wait to see some of the new apps that come out of this. =) - Mandi

"Both South Korea's and the US geological agency said they detected a seismic tremor early on Monday that indicated a nuclear explosion." "North Korea has staged a "successful" underground nuclear test, the state-run KCNA agency reports." - Evan Parker

Can I have that job? Tour the world, get paid and take all your pictures automatically! - Mandi

Great animated video on consumer based economy, thanks to Leo for sharing it with me. - Evan Parker

I like the form factor, like the treo but with a full 320x480 capacitive touch screen and all that webos goodness. And it is so thin - 10.6mm! Want. - Evan Parker

"To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we've begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the full profiles." - Evan Parker