Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog » WikiShot http://www.meydad.com Thoughts on social applications, usability, search, mobile, music and sports Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Some News from Snap – MapShot & a prettier WikiShot http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/17/some-news-from-snap-mapshot-a-prettier-wikishot/ http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/17/some-news-from-snap-mapshot-a-prettier-wikishot/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:51:07 +0000 JayMeydad http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/17/some-news-from-snap-mapshot-a-prettier-wikishot/ A quick update to those of you who follow my work at Snap. Yesterday we released two significant improvements to our product:

  • MapShot - A Google Map inside a Snap ShotMapShot – triggered of links to maps.google.com and displays a GoogleMap for a an address, a point of interest of a location specified using lat/long. The Shot also offers a neat way to perform quick local searches. More information can be found on the Snap blog . Here are a few examples:

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • WikiShot with Image - Empire State BuildingWikiShot – A wise man once said “a picture is worth a thousand words”. We have improved our Wikipedia crawler to search for images inside articles and display them inside the WikiShot when such are available. Detailed information can be found here. Here are a few examples:

 

 

 

 

 

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