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It means: Yet Another Google Maps Mashup With a Silly Name. Found it while referring to Frappr (in Beta of course), but I bet you can use it with another 327 examples.

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Sounds like a new Web 2.0 company name but it's not, it's actually something cool you should take a look at. Imagine Google Maps and geo referenced buddies in chat room. It's a great concept.

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After in the infamous Bullshit generator, now there's the Web 2.0 company generator. Signs of times.

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MGMaps is a Java application that runs on most MIDP 1.0 devices, including most modern mobile phones. It display imagery from Google Maps an MSN earth. Supports all the basic stuff scrolling, zooming, bookmarking, maps and satellite images and has some neat advanced features including a decent local cache and proxy support. It's released under Creative Commons and the development is very active. A must have

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First I thought it was a joke but then I read better and it's real. "iBelieve is a replacement lanyard for the Shuffle that doubles as a crucifix. We always knew that the cult of Apple wanted our souls, but now we can showcase the ritualistic reality". (via Gizmodo)

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This neat project caught my attention during my daily RSS browsing through the hundreds of Web 2.0/Ajax related posts hanging around. Cookies have always had huge limitations for persistent client-side data storage. With the advent of more complex and richer applications running on your browser, new solutions are emerging. AMASS is the first real solution I've seen.

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This guy makes awesome 16:9 cinema quality movies, "Spirit of Baraka" style (best documentary I ever saw, get it.), using a mini-DV camera and very low-cost equipment. With the advent of the digital editing for anyone and the new HDV cameras coming out, I wonder where we're heading to in the next years.

Be very afraid when you use your corporate printer to print your new 400 pages PDF book. You're being tagged and you may be tracked down by your boss if he reads this.

This is cool. Wherever you are you can share your Internet connection with you neighbors using your backpack. If there is enough people hanging one of these around you can virtually have Internet access repeaters all across town. "WiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet." LINK

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Bruce Schneier has a nice tip for a christmas gift for your kids. Daniel J. Solove has a very funny review on the product: The Airline Screening Player, hours of fun.

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