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envisionGood.com We were fortunate to have the opportunity to accompany Jennifer Sly, founder of YouthAssets, in Swaziland last week as she traveld enroute to a number of local homesteads. Along the way, Jennifer shared the story of how she used Google’s G1 phone & Google Maps to find a remote homestead of a 12 year old boy she had met over 12 months prior in rural Swaziland, Africa. In this interview, Jennifer points out the importance of GPS maps in Africa, noting that in most locations people do not have street addresses. YouthAssets is an international nonprofit organization that uses mobile technology to empower and connect orphans and vulnerable youth in southern Africa. To learn more about how you can support their important work, please visit YouthAssets.org. (This video is an update to a similar video published in July 2009.)

envisionGood.com We were fortunate to have the opportunity to accompany Jennifer Sly, founder of YouthAssets, in Swaziland last week as she traveld enroute to a number of local homesteads. Along the way, Jennifer shared the story of how she used Google’s G1 phone & Google Maps to find a remote homestead of a 12 year old boy she had met over 12 months prior in rural Swaziland, Africa. In this interview, Jennifer points out the importance of GPS maps in Africa, noting that in most locations people do not have street addresses. YouthAssets is an international nonprofit organization that uses mobile technology to empower and connect orphans and vulnerable youth in southern Africa. To learn more about how you can support their important work, please visit YouthAssets.org. (This video is an update to a similar video published in July 2009.)

Google’s Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt’s 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View.

Google I/O 2009 – The Myth of the Genius Programmer Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We’ll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and how to successfully manage the growth of new ideas. For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html

08/06/2008 – sv-gtug.org The Java Collections Framework is indispensable to nearly every Java developer. Yet, you may often find yourself searching for a collection type, implementation, or utility that’s nowhere to be found. In this session, you’ll learn how the open-source Google Collections Library builds on the excellent foundation of java.util, to provide more of the building blocks you need to do your job. You’ll see many examples of how your code can become simpler, safer, more flexible, and more powerful by adopting classes like ReferenceMap, Multimap, our immutable collections and many others. Kevin Bourrillion is the lead engineer for Google’s core Java libraries, more of which will be open-sourced in the future. He is a primary author of the Google Collections Library, and of Google’s Java dependency injection framework, Guice. He came to Google in 2004 after seven years of fighting for life at a string of Hot Silicon Valley Start-Ups.