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On a recent trip to Cub Foods with my wife – my 4 year old daughter asked to take a few pictures with mommy’s Droid.  I plucked the best of the bunch and have them for display below.

Watch out breakfast cereal and fruit snack industry – kids might be too busy watching Elmo on YouTube to run around like wild animals in the sugary treats aisle.

*note – I am aware the CSS is off in the Flickr gallery – no time to tinker tonight

Event Highlights (Afternoon Session)

• Aaron Weiche opens the event with some Mitch Hedberg
• Mike Blumenthal inherits the name “Professor Maps” on Twitter.  Seconds later the professor blows some minds with his demo of Google 411 .  Ed Reese promptly followed with the best tweet of the event:

• An attendee asks Google’s Jeral Poskey about the process for having businesses like domestic abuse shelters removed from Google Maps.  Within a couple hours a tweet from @mapsguide advises the #LocalU crowd via Twitter that the shelter in question had been removed from Google Maps.

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What You’ll Need:

• Handheld device operating on the Android platform
• Flickr Account
• A site or blog using Wordpress
• XML Google Maps Plugin For Wordpress

Initial Setup Time – Approximately 15 minutes

Have you ever wanted to snap a photo, have it automatically geotagged and added to an embedded map on your site with one click?  If you’re anything like me, the thought of something this awesome is probably causing you to salivate.   Read more...

I’ve been playing with QR codes for the last couple weeks after my first introduction to a Droid Eris by a colleague of mine.  Any smart phone with a barcode scanning app or a qr code reader can simply open the app, point their device at the code and the app will automatically do whatever the “bar code like image” tells it to.

I was thinking about ways to play with these, and while cooking up creative ways to try to help sell my house, it occurred to me that qr codes may have the possibility to play a major role in real estate marketing – if executed properly.   Read more...