Posts Tagged with ‘Google-Maps’

Have you ever felt more than a little disappointed when Twitter updates told you that some of your friends were at a very interesting event (a concert, a presentation, a conference maybe) you had no interest in but would have gladly attended should you know your friends were there? I have had this feeling myself more than once when I wanted to be at a place where some of my friends if I had no idea beforehand they would be [...]

There’s an interesting announcement today by Google Mobile team - Google Maps street view is now available on mobile phones. This announcement definitely presents a whole range of new capabilities to users, like helping people find the right location with the directions based on actual buildings and landmarks along the streets.
Google maps when viewed on a mobile device will provide the same level of imagery that you get on your desktop - but this time you can access it anywhere [...]

ZocDoc, a company that launched last September at TechCrunch40, is adding additional services to their site next week on February 14 with the addition of general practitioners to the site, which, up to now, has only serviced dentists in Manhattan. I had the opportunity to speak with ZocDoc CEO and Co-Founder Cyrus Massoumi about the new services as well as plans for expansion in 2008.
Massoumi likens ZocDoc to “an OpenTable for doctors and dentists,” where you can read profiles, [...]

I've been following the barrage of news regarding Data Portability with a mix of excitement and trepidation. I've been a proponent of OpenID, and regularly use services like PassPack to keep track of the ridiculous number of log-ins I seem to have accumulated. At the same time, I worry about what data is essentially mine, and what doesn't rightfully belong to me. I'm still not convinced that Robert Scoble owned the contact information for his 5000 “friends” on Facebook, [...]

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 [...]

Men everywhere have just breathed a sigh of relief. Google announced this week that they would be making their GoogleMaps application available at gas pumps made by Gilbarco Veeder-Root.  That certainly sounds like a dream come true for the man who would rather drive 40 miles into the desert on a “short cut” than suffer the embarrassment of asking for directions.
What's the catch? I'm glad you asked.  The catch is that the GoogleMaps at the pump are not [...]

Users of the popular Google Maps service now have unique identities and can interact with other users with the addition of user profiles, a feature that was launched by Google yesterday.
Previously, the only interactivity users had on the service was through business reviews and the creation of personalized maps (although they were private and could not be shared with others).
Now, each user is provided with a profile, which is essentially a collection of each person's activity on the mapping service. [...]

Anyone who has used Facebook knows the usefulness that the news feed provides. You can keep track of the online activity of your friends among various websites, now that there is a wide variety of available apps.
Now, take all the features of the Facebook News Feed, put them on their own as a service, and you have Friendfeed.
Once users provide the service with who they want to keep in touch with, they have a one-stop location to find out [...]

Lately Google has been making a lot of moves to increase its footprint on the mobile web, with the recent acquisition of GrandCentral and launch of AdSense for mobile, but one of their first mobile services has almost been forgotten.
Mobile social software Dodgeball, which was purchased by Google in 2005, basically allowed users to notify other users of their location, thereby allowing them to meet for, say, a drink at the bar. It had a lot of potential as a [...]