Map-blogging is now quite easy and fun. Did you ever though of making a blog with google maps. If so, your mash up thought is now a reality! Here is a service called Nomao. I dont know what it means but may be it has something to do with honey bee. As they call it in tag line of their site, “the place to bee”

Here is a little list of features with related images!

• Create a page of your favorite spots in few seconds
• Share your good deals, restaurants, fun and crazy places with your friends
• Discover new places where to go and which count for others

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Animoto Productions is a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out.

Their first release is Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film.

Based in New York City with an office in San Francisco, the founders of Animoto are veterans of the entertainment industry and have produced shows for MTV, Comedy Central, & ABC, studied music in London, and played in indie rock bands in Seattle. They continue to innovate in the field of creative artificial intelligence. They plan to acquire Google next year.