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Today released a developer preview of its Yahoo! Internet Location Platform, a collection of in-depth geo-location based APIs. We expect to see location be more smartly used in many applications around the web thanks to this platform. The gist of what's being enabled is this: applications can provide the name of one location and then the Yahoo!
APIs will report neighboring and "parent" locations. Google Maps Coming to Media, AIR Desktops, via Flash API - ReadW. At the Where 2.0 conference today Google announced the availability of a new Flash API for Google Maps.
From Flash microsites to embedded media players to beautiful cross-platform AIR apps on the desktop - expect to start seeing interactive Google Maps embedded in a lot of unusual places soon. A substantial portion of the web's creativity can be found in the Flash developer community.