Google Launches Interactive Hurricane Sandy Crisis Response Map

In response to Hurricane Sandy, Google's Crisis Response team has constructed an interactive map designed to help make sense of the epic weather phenomenon.

Built upon a foundation of standard Google Maps data, the default presentation of the map offers a view of Hurricane Sandy's path, a precipitation radar overlay (with adjustable translucence), public alert zones, and Red Cross safety shelter locations represented by Google's well-known red location pins.
SOURCE: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411491,00.asp

What's interesting in this news article is Google's efforts to enter more and more in the Geospatial industry, previously when something that big happened, Esri was the company to provide such map as it did in Hurricane Katrina (it actually provides such site under its new ArcGIS.com online service, but it's not that high profile as the Google effort).
We will be seeing a major shift in the key players in the geospatial industry, and GIS professionals around the world should be prepared for such change.

Nested Labels in GMail

 For all of you who was asking why GMail was using a flat Labels structure instead of the folders structure used universally before, I personally like the labels way of organizing emails and how I can tag a message with multiple labels.

But I was having a hard time using it in Outlook (as connecting my Outlook to my GMail account through IMAP creates a very ugly Label names if I want to manage my email as I usually do inside Outlook), but earlier this month GMail Labs introduced a new Lab, the Nested Labels.

This allows me to use Nested labels to see my labels in the same way I see them in Outlook, it's a great feature for some users who prefers the folders hierarchy way of organizing emails or who need access their GMail accounts through Outlook IMAP access.

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek