Google Chrome’s Terms of Service: They want your stuff?

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

UPDATE: The Terms of Service have been updated as of September 4th 2008 to state that you retain the rights and copyright on all things displayed with or through “The Service”. The EULA is no longer a problem and I look forward to giving Chrome an in depth try. (See the EULA here: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html)

How often have you tried to install an application only to be stopped by a dialog asking you to agree to some terms of service (TOS), or an end user license agreement (EULA)?
Now how often do you actually take the time to read through these terms to see what you’re agreeing to?

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GoGeocode PHP Library Release

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Over the past two months or so I’ve been playing with an old pet project of mine that I tend to peck away at when I can’t think of a better to work on.

As part of this project I found myself needing to do a massive amount of geocoding in PHP.

After searching through the various PHP based geocoding libraries online I came to notice that none of them seemed to make use of the APIs ability to return multiple points as well as informational data about each point.

Thus GoGeocode was born.

GoGeocode is an extremely small set of classes for use in querying both the Google and Yahoo geocoding APIs.

I’ve released the code under the MIT License and posted the code at http://code.google.com/p/gogeocode/

Take and enjoy!

Update: The GoGeocode page has been updated with a description, example use case, and a tar.gz archive of the gogeocode-0.1 release tag from SVN.

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GoGeocode PHP Library

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Over the past two months or so I’ve played with an old pet project of mine that I tend to peck away at when I can’t think of anything better to work on.

As part of this project I found myself needing to do a massive amount of
geocoding in PHP.

After searching through the various PHP based geocoding libraries online I came to notice that none of them seemed to make use of the APIs ability to return multiple points as well as informational data about each point.

Thus GoGeocode was born.

GoGeocode is an extremely small set of classes for use in querying both the Google and Yahoo geocoding APIs.

I’ve released the code under the MIT License and posted the code at http://code.google.com/p/gogeocode/

Take and enjoy.

Happy Coding,
Joe Bauser

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