Another (potentially*) really handy bit of code from Google, this allows you to embed a form in your contact us/directions information allowing users to get directions from google maps to your specified location. My example below gives directions from any address to Southampton University:
You can specify a multiple choice for end locations.
*Unfortunately, I’d choose against using this at the moment as it seems to have problems with uk postcodes, I can’t imagine this remaining an issue for long.
Well ‘decision engine’ Bing and ‘computational knowledge engine’ Wolfram Alpha left me underwhelmed but new ‘visual search engine’ Spezify is great fun.
A great new project from Oxford, Wall of 100 Faces is a videowall with 100 short videos introducing a range of students at the university. It’s taken eight months to put together and there’s an interesting video on the wall with producer Hannah Madsen describing the background and processes (no direct link to individual videos unfortunately, Hannah’s video is the last, in the bottom right hand corner).
A growing number of US universities and the University of Sunderland are already using Google Apps for Education to deliver email, instant messaging, calendars and document collaboration.
There’s a lot of excitement about the iphone finally getting cut and paste and the ability to do such mobile basics as picture messaging and contact sending/receiving, but it’s great to see iTunesU getting a much higher profile on the latest version of the operating system.
For the first time you can now access iTunesU directly through the phone, with Warwick University the first option on the homepage when I tried it. Expect to see usage rise over the next few months, although with such limited screen estate, it’s going to be more important than ever to build good relations with Apple and get those high profile feature spots.
