Posts Tagged with ‘Google-Earth’

Yesterday, TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley published a post highlighting the news of Google’s feature enhancements and additions to the company’s Maps utility. And he proposed a question: “Is Google Earth on borrowed time?”
Now, I’m sure some of you are thinking that such a query doesn’t hold much ground. That Google Earth is hardly symmetrical to Maps. That it’s a heck of a lot more powerful, and that its uses are quite different. (For example, while Google Earth can [...]

A few months ago I stumbled on a web site called Schmap. At the time, I had just reviewed Schmedley, wasn't super-impressed , and somehow lumped the two sites together in my mind. I'd forgotten all about Schmap until recently, when I learned how they solicit some of the information for their site.
Schmap is an online travel guide, which doesn't sound all that unique at first. Then you hit their home page, and notice raves from Time, The Washington Post, [...]

Here’s a fun little nugget you might get a kick out of.
If you’re at all a fan of Google Earth, perhaps the coolest, publicly-accessible virtual representation of the Earth, and you like car races – particularly those of the long-distance-on-public-roads flavor – you’ll likely enjoy taking a look at the files of a transcontinental run the notorious Team Polizei (of Gumball fame), commandeered by Alex Roy, have made available.
Okay, this wasn’t exactly a race, per se. Unless I’m mistaken, no [...]

With the explosive growth of user-generated content in Web 2.0, one of the results is that more and more personal information can be found online. As Kathy Sierra and others have discovered, the line between online presence and personal life is getting thinner all the time.
MySpace has tried to walk the line between user privacy concerns and compliance with law enforcement agencies this year, and it can only be assumed that if other social networking sites haven't already been contacted [...]

Google, a common brand and verb among technology and non-technology enthusiasts, is growing at an enormous rate! People can recognize this growth because of its many acquisitions of companies (ten so far this year), such as the seven major Web 2.0 products/services mentioned below (in the order of acquisition date) which consumes a good part of the internet pie:
Blogger.com: This was one of the most popular blogging networks, which was acquired by Google in February 2003. It has a huge [...]

Google has put together a set of new layers for its Earth utility, a group that everyone should familiarize themselves with. The collection is called Crisis in Darfur. The title alone aptly explains what it’s about.
I’ll give you a brief synopsis anyhow. Essentially, Google’s Crisis in Darfur project, created in partnership with BrightEarth, is an assembly of “high-res satellite images of Darfur…[and text of] first-hand accounts of the genocide currently underway in the region.”
The inhumanity of what is being [...]

The business side of me understands that China is a country more and more companies are moving into, and that a company like Yahoo! has to be competitive and move into China if its competitors are already there.
The other side of me, however, is frustrated that while there is a very vocal minority who protested some of the board's selections for directors at their most recent shareholders' meeting, only 4% of those same shareholders supported the creation of a human [...]

Google has announced that it is going to buy Panoramio for an undisclosed amount to add it to its Google Geo product mix (Google Earth and Google Maps). For those of you who don't know yet, Panoramio is a photo hosting website that in addition to offering you free 2 Gb for photos storage allows you to organize and locate photos by linking them to the places where they were taken. This service also enables you to explore the world [...]

Back when I was a recent college graduate freshly armed with my degree, I got my first job working in marketing communications. At that point, PR was fairly standard: press kits, press releases, press packs with glossy product brochures, and even trade show booth items were fairly standard. Launching a new product had a set scheme for marketing that most companies followed.
In the crowded space that exists today, however, the old methods of marketing are missing the edge that can [...]