From an E-Mail Update:

+ A location-aware homepage greets you with a real-time traffic summary for your city or most recently viewed city area

+ An enhanced easy-to-use interface gives you quick links to site features and content

+ New “Search Map” and “Browse Traffic” tabs allow you to easily find the information you need

+ One click “Save This Drive” buttons make it fast and easy to personalize your MyTraffic alerts

+ New, more detailed maps display color-coded traffic flow and new incident icons pinpoint hotspots

+ A real-time news ticker alerts you to severe incidents in your city

The NAVTEQ Traffic.com website is part of the NAVTEQ product family. And, as part of the new website design, you’ll see new links to NAVTEQ.com resources, as well as a new NAVTEQ Traffic.com logo.

In addition to new traffic features, you’ll find familiar traffic planning tools like “Check Your Drive Time” for traffic-informed alternate routes and driving directions.

To learn more about our new features, browse our Features overview webpage.

Direct to Traffic.com

Source: Traffic.com

See Also: Phone-Based Customized Traffic Reports at 1-866-My-Trafc

From the Announcement:

Orb Networks today announced the availability of Orb Live Events, a customizable iPhone application that enables any content owner to broadcast their live content on these popular handsets. Live Events provides content owners with a proven iPhone player, already approved and available in Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. In contrast to using other solutions, which can cost millions and take months to implement, a content provider or broadcaster can get up and running in as little 24 hours with the Orb solution.

Learn More About Orb Live Events

Source: Orb

From the News Article:

Here’s Web 2.0 at its finest: A Yahoo programmer has combined his own project, Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), with Twitter and Google App Engine to create a new way to determine what news is both new and important.

The service, called TweetNews, presents Yahoo news search results in a different way, using results from the same search on Twitter to determine what should get high placement, according to a blog posting about it by BOSS engineer Vik Singh.

Direct to Tweet News

Source: Webware

+ Eventbox (for Mac Users)

pack your social networks in one box

+ mulist

mulist is a web widget, where you can create any type of list you can think of

+ tweetAhead
Coming at the end of the month.

+ monitter

Real time, live twitter monitor and live twitter embed widget. It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.

Source: MoMB & FeedMyApp

Pervasive Media: Delivering ‘the right thing in the moment’

21st Century lifestyles and business practices demand value delivery on the move and in many situations. An explosion in mobile services is being fuelled by the availability of powerful media-rich mobile devices and pervasive networking. Successful solutions in this high growth area will be those that can deliver ‘the right thing in the moment’. That is, high value services will be those that are tuned to the user’s situation and so deliver the best experience. Delivering the right thing in the moment changes the way content is consumed and the timing of its availability. It changes the use of space and time and so: the way the creative industries think about delivering content, the way advertisers think about just in time messaging and tracking; and the way information is accessed throughout an organization. This paper considers the implications for technology and application research. We describe the need for: an extensible and scaleable context framework with privacy, trust and security policies embedded; new modes of interface between the physical and the digital environment; and a programme that builds expertise amongst practitioners as the technology develops in its early stages.

+ Full Paper (PDF; 99 KB)

Source: HP Labs

From the article:

The Los Angeles Fire Department has been the toast of the blogosphere in recent weeks after its efforts at using the micro-blogging site Twitter came to light.

Twitter allows users to post short (140 characters or less) notes. The fire department uses Twitter to post information about fires or other emergencies that it is responding to. These messages are then sent to users signed up to receive the information on their mobile devices.

Source: PC World

A live ticker that shows catalog records as they are added/updated in the OCLC Worldcat database. Fun! Interesting!

Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies, 2008

The PROFIT 100 table ranks the 100 fastest-growing companies in Canada by percentage revenue growth from 2002-07, while the Next 100 table features companies ranked from Nos. 101 to 200.

Sort tables by:
* Rank
* Alphabetical order
* Revenue 2002
* Revenue 2007
* Growth 2002-07 (%)
* Profit margin
* Employees (number of)
* Exports as % of sales

Source: Canadian Business

+ More Traffic on Yahoo! Maps

+ New Content on Ancestry.com

+ Australian Academic Press reaches preservation agreement with Portico

+ [NY] Times Reader Beta for Mac Coming This Month

From the announcement:

Air travelers whose flights have been canceled or diverted can now greatly improve their chances of finding a seat on the next available flight thanks to a new flight availability service from FlightStats.com and mobile.flightstats.com. FlightStats’ availability service will show available seats by class and cabin on planes that are either at a nearby gate or will soon arrive, giving those who use the service a head start and reducing the risk of becoming stranded at an airport.

Direct to Both Services via web and mobile web:
http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightAvailability/flightAvailabilityByRoute.do

Mobile:
http://mobile.flightstats.com/go/Mobile/flightAvailabilityByNextAvailableFlight.do

From the NY Times article:

Microsoft on Thursday plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams.

The new service’s software technology, called Clearflow, was developed over the last five years by a group of artificial-intelligence researchers at the company’s Microsoft Research laboratories. It is an ambitious attempt to apply machine-learning techniques to the problem of traffic congestion. The system is intended to reflect the complex traffic interactions that occur as traffic backs up on freeways and spills over onto city streets.

Source: NY Times

An online, user-friendly map that tracks flood conditions has been developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

As expected rains drive flood waters higher along the Mississippi River Valley, USGS crews are in the field collecting data needed to update the flood maps, prepare forecasts, manage the flood and warn communities

Source: USGS

ResourceShelf Webcam Collection: Mt. St. Helens
Live shots of the volcano that update every 5 minutes. The cams, including the new “HD” cam, come courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service.

Source: USFS

Two of these cams allow users to pan, zoom, etc.

+ Huntington Beach (Orange County), CA
2 cams.

+ Sydney Harbour, Australia
Tilt, pan, and zoom. Requires Flash and Java.

+ Niagara Falls, ON
4 cams including a tilt/pan cam. Streaming video also available.

+ San Francisco (via Marin Cam)
A view of SF skyline from the Marin County side of the SF Bay

+ Various views of ships using the Panama Canal

+ Five Live Webcam Images of Vatican City

Sources: Various

See Also: More Webcams and Real Time Information Resources.