The Fab & The Furious

Furious writes…

According to some estimates, 68 percent of IT projects fail (I know this based on first hand experience hehe). That’s a sobering statistic, but there are ways to stack the deck in favor of IT project success. This video shares five strategies to help you overcome some of the common problems that plague many IT projects.

For those of you who prefer text to video, you can read the original article from Michael Krigsman that this episode was based on: Five strategies for 2009 IT gold

Furious writes…

Two Web sites are pushing what can be done with interactive interfaces to Google Maps and Google Earth.

The first, taking advantage of Google Maps’ new ability to work with Flash applications, lets you drive a car, bus, or truck around Google Maps.

Another novelty is a flight simulator for the browser plug-in version of Google Earth announced at Google I/O a week and a half ago. Again, the software is crude by gaming standards, but it does illustrate what can be done these days inside a browser.

It’s really amazing what programmers can come up with these days, and how many different technologies are available on the Web.