In keeping with our efforts in world domination, we’ve soft launched podcast ibiza. Since we love google maps and google have introduced the new google earth plugin we’ve taken advantage of that.

We’ll be putting in more mix sets and podcasts up throughout the summer as well as having more clubbing blogs from friends like Cila..

We’ll also be putting up video interviews and much more multimedia stuff by our friend Lorna at lovemusic.fm…

It was great that a couple of really good friends who are promoting Los Fabulosos at the newly refurbished Somni club in Figuretes got some front page credit in todays Sun newspaper online: front page link - los fab article. They’ll be on Sonica Radio next Thursday between 4 and 6pm with Hugo playing a couple of typical huge tracks.

We’re also hearing rumours of an island institution making headways into Ibiza Town - watch this space….

Today it chucked down and we had a huge thunder and lightning storm but everyone agreed that we needed it and that it probably signals the start of stupidly hot weather until february…. Tomorrow is the mother of opening parties as Cream starts at Amnesia and then next week sees the opening of Manumission at the revamped Amnesia as well as obviously the Ibiza Rocks opening party with the Pigeon Detectives.

We’ve now launched podcast ibiza using the new google earth maps api:

and have obviously also integrated it into www.iphoneibiza.com:

The new style code for google maps will be announced next week but “heres one i made earlier” also using the new “terrain” option (we will probably use a different style but this is an example):

There is a caveat i have to add from google: “Note that this library isn’t actually released yet - it’s not in the release library yet, just in the development. We’re looking to release it next week.”

Also I havent linked to the actual map because : “So if you blog about it, please note that caveat. I don’t want people to hotlink to the javascript in the development library.”

This is still 3rd party code but it will be in the utility library.

You may have noticed that the past few weeks there hasn’t been much happening on the ibizaA-Z.com - now you can see why: We’ve spent an intense few weeks working on the new site.

We’ve teamed up with the islands ibiza NOW magazine to bring you the first Ibiza website entirely constructed around one google map… You can use either ibizaa-z.com or ibiza-now.com.

Ibiza NOW has been going for over twenty years and is the only full colour glossy magazine catering to the islands English Speaking population.

Ibiza NOW gives us access to, and therefore you, a huge archive of content and photos and the help of a monthly magazine - access to all the events on the island, details of where and when they are and a team of experienced reporters and contributors. It’s a work in progress but we hope you like it.

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