We are happy to announce that mapdango can now be integrated with iGoogle and other Google web pages as a Google Gadget.

Now everyone can have a little mapdango goodness on their favorite home page.

You may or may not have yet heard about Google's Friend Connect, a service that lets visitors to a website to invite/see/interact with their friends from other social networks.

You may be familiar with Twitter, the increasingly popular 'micro-blogging' web app that allows users to 'tweet' what they're doing and to follow other's tweets.

We're happy to announce that mapdango continues to garner attention as an international travel resource. The Telegraph released a list of the 'Top 20 Travel Websites' and we are happy to announce that mapdango made the cut.

Stay tuned for announcements about additional functionality and other awards in the near future.

We're happy to announce that our award-winning map mashup, mapango, was awarded Mashup of the Month by the judges at MashupAwards.

We are thrilled to announce that mapdango placed first in the mashup contest held at Mashup Camp 6 in Mountain View, CA.

In addition to mapdango Spy, mapdango now also includes two new pages:

After showing off mapdangito last month, we now turn our attention to a net new side project as part of our Lab. showdango is the world's first webinar index. We decided to develop this web site after finding out that no one else provides an index for webinars. Crazy, we know.

If you've ever wondered what parts of the planet folks are exploring with mapdango you should check out the new mapdango Spy! mapdango Spy allows you to see what users are searching for in real time. If any location catches your attention, simply click on the location name to explore that location in mapdango. So simple, and perhaps almost too easy!

Change is in the air here at CartoSoft and we have given the mapicon Factory a new look. We are happy to present the new and improved mapicon Factory:

Take it for a spin and let us know what you think. We'll be making additional updates to our corporate web site as well as some of our lab projects in the coming weeks.

Alas, it is time to bring CartoSoft from localhost to the world wide web.

CartoSoft is a small startup based in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to extend the reach of geographic information systems (GIS) to a broader audience through Internet Mapping Solutions. There is much to do and many people to help.

We are in the process of building out our little fiefdom on the web, so excuse any broken links or errant CSS code while we work hard to update our site at the same time that we server our clients.