We’re 15 minutes ahead of schedule now with Map Services, speaker for which is Jean Chen
Jenny is trying to bribe us again with t-shirts if we ask questions…too bad most of us already have one!
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Something’s changed, I’m not sure if Jean Chen is on stage right now
There’s a whole lineup of speakers on Maps right now…hmph.
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Suddenly introducted speaker #1:
How many of you have used Google Earth? Let’s see your hands!
Seems he’s from eemap.org, which apparently supports maps mashups, with Google Maps and Google Earth
I see a number of maps at eemaps.org have been developed with a news application specifically in mind (think fire and San Diego?)
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Google Earth needs more Chinese-language information inputted
Eemap has created a sort of wikiEarth, where anyone can input, revise or delete any information onto a Google Earth/Map image of…China? Unsure..
[He's working out of Google Documents...even my eyes aren't good enough to see what is written up on the projector screen]
He’s explaining how EEmap works, no different from any other competitor from the looks of it, the colored pin points, if the mouse is hovered above them, have a bubble which pops up and displays the relevant information, a photo, address, etc..
It’s great fun and not difficult at all. Maps once kept the world together and now we have them available 24/7–make your own.
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Next up, from Shanghai it seems, someone from city8.com…ooh and it seems blocked!
But she’s got it up now
A search for Tiananmen…
No wait, she changed her mind
Now she’s searching city8.com for the Tsinghua technology park where we’re having this conference
….technical difficulties….. 
some smartass is clapping…
…and several of his friends…
she has a word processing document
going over the main uses of city8.com maps
-searching for addresses
-finding out what surrounds you
-search up a specific kind of service
-apartment-hunting
-make travel plans (scenery [why then would you still want to go?], museums, etc
Who could use city8/who already does:
-city governments
-2-D map sites
She’s being rushed too quickly…the clapping is polite reminder
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