America's Safest Cities

Here's a look at the 25 most safest cities in America on Google Maps.

This list compiled by Morgan Quitno Press and reported by USA Today

St. Louis beats Detroit again

This time though St.Louis tops Detroit in Crime. Detroit is second to St.Louis in one of the most unsafe cities in America.

Check out the 25 most unsafest cities in America on Google Maps.

This list compiled by Morgan Quitno Press and reported by USA Today

Congratulations to St. Louis

My Detroit Tigers did not win but they did give us a great season.

Congratulations to St. Louis for winning the 2006 World Series.

Also a Happy Birthday to St. Louis Arch. It was on this day (10/28), 1965 the St. Louis Arch was completed.

Highest paid Men and Women in the Corporate World

Here are couple of mentions of my Google Maps Mashups of Fortune's Highest paid men.

TheStreet.com
bloggingstocks.com
GoogleMapsMania

I have also mashed up Fortune's Highest Paid Women which was mashup of the day (10/17/2006) at ProgrammableWeb

Related:
Fortune 100 Companies
Top Business Schools
Top Medical Schools
Top Engineering Schools
Top High Schools

Ghost Aircraft taking off from Frankfurt, Germany

A look at Ghost Airplane taking off from Frankfurt, Germany on Google Maps.
(The 3 different aircrafts shown taking off are all the same aircraft. I am not an expert in Satellite imagery, maybe someone can explain as to how these satellite images are captured.)

Related:5 different (same) planes taking off from Atlanta's Hartsfield airport

President George Bush and Google Maps

President George Bush likes to look at his ranch on Google Maps.
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Pablo Picasso - Happy Birthday

Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists of 20th Century is born this day (October 25th, 1881) in Malaga, Spain.

This Day in History - 10/24/1945

United Nations is Born

Happy 5th Birthday to Apple's IPOD

Apple's IPOD Born: October 23rd 2001

Detroit Tigers vs. St. Louis Cardinals - 2006 World Series

Its going to be Tigers vs. Cardinals in the World Series which kicks of October 21st at Comerica Park.
Detroit Tigers Video


St. Louis Cardinals Video

Justice delivered after 10 years

This man is going to jail, 10 years after comitting a gruesome crime (rape and murder) in New Delhi, India. In the initial trial back in 1999, the judge acquitted him. According to BBC

But while acquitting Singh, the judge lashed out at the prosecution.

He said the investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, had manipulated evidence and ignored proper procedures.

He said he knew the defendant was guilty but was obliged to acquit him.

This man's luck though ran out in the second trial which just concluded. For more on this read BBC.

Featured Developer at ProgrammableWeb.com

Am proud of the fact that John Musser has me as a featured developer at his popular website - ProgrammableWeb.com

Related:
My Profile at ProgrammableWeb.

Michigan Gubernatorial Candidates (2006)

Here's a look at Michigan Gubernatorial Candidates on Google Maps:

Detroit Tigers in FALL CLASSIC

Congratulations to Detroit Tigers!!



The last time Detroit Tigers were in the World Series:
Ronald Reagan was in the White House
and
This Julian Lennon Song was hitting the airwaves

Apprentice Wannabe Raj Bhakta for US Congress

Remember Raj Bhakta from NBC's Apprentice

Raj is running as a Republican from Pennsylvania's 13 district.



Raj's Bhakta's Joe Biden Challenge:

Yeager breaks Sound Barrier on this day - October 14th, 1947

Chuck Yeager on this day (October 14th, 1947) broke the sound barrier by flying the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake Bed in Southern California. For more on this check out history.com

Congratulations to South Korea

South Korean Diplomat Ban Ki-Moon has been elected to be the next United Nations Secretary General. He will succeed Kofi Annan on January 1st 2007.

Congratulations to Bangladesh

Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh along with Grameen Bank have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. For more on this check out BBC.

This day in History - 10/13/1792

White House Cornerstone Laid - October 13, 1792

Top 10 Highest Paid Women

Here's Top 10 Highest Paid Women on Google Maps as reported by Fortune Magazine.

Top 10 Highest Paid Men

Here's Top 10 Highest Paid men on Google Maps as reported by Fortune Magazine.

Plane Crashes into a High Rise Building in New York

Plane crashes into this High Rise Building in New York located at 524 E, 72nd Street, New York. For more on this check out CNN.
Update: Apparantely the Google Maps was off by couple of buildings. Thanks to Shimmy for pointing this out.

Bhartiya Temple, Troy Michigan

Here's a satellite view of Bharatiya Temple located in Troy, MI. I was there yesterday (10/10) with my wife. Yesterday was Karwa Chauth - "a ritual of fasting observed by married Hindu Women". For more on Karwa Chauth check out about.com.


Here's a picture of Karwa Chauth prayers in progress taken at Bhartiya Temple, Troy, MI on (10/10).

Primary School in India deals with drunk children

This shocking story comes via BBC (thanks to Dave Mallya for the tip).

Primary School children in a tribal village of Zitapatti in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India use to come drunk to school. Apparently in this village consumption of alcohol - mostly prepared from the fruit of the local mahua flower - is routine, even for children.

Then one day a new principal came to school and things began to change. For more on this check out BBC

Happy 64th Birthday to Amitabh Bachchan

Here's wishing Amitabh Bachchan a Bollywood Living Legend - Happy 64th Birthday (October 11th) and many....many more to come.

Here's a look at his birthplace on Google Maps along with some songs from his rookie years to present day.



more later....

GO TIGERS!!

GO DETROIT TIGERS!!!!
Google Maps Mashup of Detroit Tigers - Date of Birth and Birth Places of Players.

Personal Financial Details for Sale

Channel 4 of Britain went undercover in India and found that Personal Financial Details (from call centers) of overseas customers were available for sale at GBP 8/- ($15) per person.

Here's the report: (Click on the map)

India's most Trusted Celebrities

Times of India did a "dipstick" poll to find out which Indian celebrities people trust the most.

Here's a list of Indian Celbrities on Google Maps (showing their hometowns and a video from YouTube).

Topping the list were:
Aamir Khan (Bollywood Actor)
Amitabh Bachchan (Bollywood Actor) and
Rahul Dravid (Indian Cricket Captain) were tied
Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood Actor)

For more on the story check out Times of India.

Mashup of the Day - Top 10 Most Trusted Celebrities

ProgrammableWeb has mibazaar's Top 10 Most Trusted Celebrities Google Maps Mashup as "Mashup of the day" (10/05).

This is a mashup of Forbes's list of top 10 most trusted Celebrities in America.

Giant Bug in Google Maps

Take a look at this monster bug in Google Maps [via GoogleSightSeeing] crawling somewhere in Germany.

(Note: It turns out that this is a 1 mm bug stuck between the glass plate and the film during the scanning process)

Mashing up Google Maps and Ethnic Dining in United States

In the Forbes article (issue 10/16) titled "Google Industrial Complex",this image of my Ethnic Dining Google Maps Mashup is shown (in print only).

The following note goes along with this image: "Map Mashups used to look like this chart of ethnic restaurants in Detroit. Now they're getting better looking, like this effort from HBO, where viewers can spot murder location from the The Sopranos"
(Image of HBO mashup is then shown)

One look at GoogleMapsMania or ProgrammableWeb and you can see how sophisticated the mashups are getting.

It was a tremendous honor though to have one my mashup images displayed in a reputed magazine like FORBES.

This mashup defaults to the Detroit Location, however this mashup is applicable to any zip code or city, state in United States.

Geocoding provided by Yahoo Geocoding API
Restaurant information by Yahoo Local API

Michigan Indian Community related Content moved to new location

Going forward all content related to Michigan Indian Community like Bollywood Movies, Indian Community Events will now be at a new location at michiganindia.mibazaar.com.

Take a look at michiganindia.mibazaar.com . I have added a Google Video Search Feature. Its pretty cool.

MIBAZAAR.COM will contain posts related to Google Maps and/or Google Satellite Views.

more later....

MIBAZAAR'S Google Maps Mashups

Welcome: Readers from FORBES, FORBES Blog, GoogleMapsMania and ProgrammableWeb

Here are my Google Maps Mashups
Educational Mashups
News Mashups
Sports Mashups
Entertainment Mashups
History Mashups
Shopping Mashups
Dining and Groceries Mashups
Other Mashups

and finally here's my GOOGLE MAPS MASHUPS book from WILEY PUBLISHERS which is due out by March 2007.