Google Feb. 1 revealed the Art Project featuring 1,000 works of art scanned online using Google Street View, Picasa and App Engine. – Google Feb. 1 said it has begun taking its Street View
Google Maps feature into art galleries to bring images of art works to
consumers’ computers via the Web.
One of the search engine’s famed 20 percent projects, Google’s
Art Project aims to bring more than 1,000 works of art to people who mig…
You may remember earlier this year when the guys at Google launched biking directions for the Unites States’ version of Google Maps. Well, they’ve just done the same for Canada. The following regions should start showing biking directions now: Calgary, Edmonton, Gatineau, Kelowna, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, and Winnipeg. Biking directions were added after many users [...]
News Analysis: The U.K. privacy authorities Nov. 2 forgave Google Street View cars for collecting data in that country, joining Canada and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. – For all the railing against Google’s
Street privacy violations, countries sure are willing to forgive the search
engine easily enough for its data-snorting transgressions.
Google admitted its Street View cars that patrol city streets to snap images for
Google Maps had sucked up 600 gigabytes wo…
According to Google, 244,327 out of 8,458,084 households in Germany, or 2.89 percent, opted out of Street View. Not every household that asked to be blurred will be, however. – Google Oct. 21 said less than 3 percent of German households have opted out
of allowing Google Street View to collect images of their homes.
Google’s Street View service, which provides real-life images of streets all
over the world, caused a stir in May when the company admitted the cars it us…
Back in 2007, Google launched the addition of Street View onto Google Maps. For those that do not know a great deal about Street View, the feature allows you take a look at first-person “street-level†imagery to see what different areas look like. Over the years the feature has provided users with a virtual tour [...]
Google adds Street View footage in Antarctica, Brazil and Ireland, which means it now collects content across all seven continents. Concerns about Street View’s impact on user privacy remain. – Google Sept. 30 said it has added imagery for its Street View technology
across all seven continents, adding footage in Antarctica,
Brazil and Ireland.
Google Street View is a controversial feature of Google Maps that provides
360-degree panoramic images of streets and terrain all over the world…
Google acquires virtual tour provider Quiksee to bolster its Google Street View feature of Google Maps. Paired with QuikSee technology, Street View might eventually allow users to geotag videos they shoot and upload them. – Google has acquired Israel-based Quiksee, whose software
allows users to create 3D video tours that leverage location.
Financial terms of the deal were not made public, though publication
Haaretz, which originally reported the deal Sept. 13, said it was for $10 million.
Google and Quiksee confir…
Nostalgia is a normal part of growing up – or getting old, at least for some of us. There’s something satisfying about sitting down and flipping through photo albums filled with images of our youth. We’re sure you know that wistful feeling quite well, and if you live far away from where you grew up, [...]
Consumer Watchdog accuses Google of breaching the home WiFi networks of prominent lawmakers as part of its Google Street View snafu. To bolster its point, the group conducted some so-called wardriving to see if it could find unencrypted networks. In doing so, however, some say Consumer Watchdog went too far. – Google has fired back at Consumer Watchdog’s criticism that the company
accidentally snooped on the personal WiFi networks of several members of
Congress.
In May, Google admitted that it had accidentally used code, written for a
WiFi project, which caused the Google Street View vehicles used to …
For the past few years Google Maps has been giving other web mapping service applications like MapQuest a run for their money. Free for non-commercial use, Google Maps offers accurate street maps and directions. Google Maps is interactive allowing for everything from a plain map view to a detailed satellite view.
But as Google [...]
Google is continually updating their applications though official development and outside programmers designing  extensions and labs. If you have some spare time and familiarity with Google Maps, then here are a few features you might find useful.
Get Directions: Not a new feature by any means, Google has refined their algorithms to allow for variations in [...]
News Analysis: Trying to find the right balance between Web privacy and the free flow of information is difficult. However, striking this balance is absolutely necessary. Here, eWEEK examines 10 Web privacy issues Google should consider each and every day, especially as the search engine giant’s business grows into new areas.
– On April 20, Google was sent a letter from 10
countries around the world urging
the search giant to do a better job of safeguarding user privacy. The
letter specifically targeted the Google Buzz social networking service, as well
as Google Street View. For its part, Google
said it has commented…
Google just announced a new version of Google Maps for Blackberry users. Recently Windows Mobile and S60 already had a chance to use version 3.2, but now it’s the Blackberry crowd’s turn.
With layers being the new dynamic feature of this version of Google Maps, there is no better way to show it than with a [...]
Google just announced a new version of Google Maps for Blackberry users. Recently Windows Mobile and S60 already had a chance to use version 3.2, but now it’s the Blackberry crowd’s turn.
With layers being the new dynamic feature of this version of Google Maps, there is no better way to show it than with a [...]
NEW ALBUM OUT STATESIDE JANUARY 19, 2010 WITH BONUS MATERIAL
 Editors |
“On their own terms, not anyone else’s, Editors have triumphed, aiming high and hitting the mark.” – The Sunday Times
In This Light And On This Evening, which debuted at #1 in the UK charts last week, is Editors‘s follow-up to 2007′s platinum selling An End Has A Start, and was produced by Grammy Award winner Mark “Flood” Ellis (U2, Sigur Ros, Depeche Mode). The album finds Editors heading in a new direction where synths replace the soaring guitars and lead singer Tom Smith takes his vocals to new places on an album with a dystopian, apocalyptic, mechanical ambience.
However, some things remain vintage Editors. The record is as bleak and as vivid as ever. “A record that sings of no God, a record of broken love songs, a record where the filthy city is so close you can smell it, taste it, a record of drunken violence, a record which has lost all trust in those in charge of our world,” describes Smith.
But those who focus on the gloom-and-doom in itself, he says, are missing the point. “Dark is interesting, dark is exciting, dark can be funny, there’s real life in the dark, real life IS dark,” says Smith. “When an album feels like this, the fragments of hope and love that do occasionally shine through, shine through ten times brighter than they would normally do so.”
To celebrate this week’s UK release of their third studio album, Editors have created a unique listening experience for their new album by appearing to ‘hack’ Google Street View. The experience allows fans to use a version of Google Maps on the Editors website to travel to certain areas of London where the band have hacked in their own custom locations. The new additions consist of some gloriously moody 360-degree images, shot at night. Within each location the user will hear a track from the new album, which was inspired by the mood and magic of London at night. The images feature the band and a group of their fans performing surreal activities, which reportedly have hidden meanings relating to the songs. The locations are normally unavailable on the regular Street View. Editors modified version of Google Maps allows users to enter into these locations and make the transition from light to dark so fans can explore the band’s atmospheric vision of London at night.
To access the Map go here.
To see the new video from Editors for their first UK single off the new album, “Papillion,” pop over here.
As a resident of Toronto, I’m very excited that Google Street View is now also available in Canada! Google has finally updated Google Maps to include 11 major Canadian cities. You can also use street view images when using Google Maps to get directions to a particular location. Never miss a turn by traveling to [...]
A 360-degree virtual tour of the Millennium Stadium is to be featured on Google Street View.
The Cardiff venue is one of six places voted to be specially filmed by the search engine’s mobile mapping service.
The images of the 74,500-seat venue, both inside and out, will be gathered by a team using a three-wheeled cycle.
Other sites to be mapped are: the Angel of the North, Loch Ness, Stonehenge, the Eden Project, Warwick Castle and Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland.
Cardiff is already one of 25 British towns and cities with street-level images available on Google Street View, launched in April this year.
The Millennium Stadium was a winner in the online campaign launched by Google and the travel and tourism body VisitBritain asking the public to name their top tourist treasures.
The venue marks its 10th anniversary this year, with managers saying it it has brought over £1bn to the Welsh economy and supported 2,400 jobs.
It attracts over 1m visitors a year, almost half of them from outside Wales, by hosting the Six Nations rugby tournament, concerts by rock and pop giants ranging from U2, Bruce Springsteen to Oasis and Madonna as well as speedway, rugby league, rallying and monster truck racing.
The stadium also held the FA Cup finals and semi-finals while Wembley was being rebuilt.
Communications officer, John Williams, said the stadium was a "jewel in the crown of a proud nation".
He said: "Whether the stadium is in use for a rock or pop concert, hosting a major sporting event or conference, being used as a film set for shows like Doctor Who and Torchwood or even as a frequent backdrop to TV news items – in any one of its many guises – the versatile, retractable roofed- venue dominates its surroundings and remains instantly recognisable.
Face-blurring
Google said it had despatched the Google Street View Trike, an 18 stone (115 kg) machine with a camera mounted on pole behind the rider.
The trike is designed to make imagery collections in places less accessible by cars, such as historic landmarks and coastal paths.
Google said it would apply its face-blurring and licence plate blurring policy to the images, which will be made available at a later date in Street View on Google Maps.
Snowdon, Ben Nevis and the Giant’s Causeway were also said to be three popular suggestions but Google took the view these would be "just too tricky" for someone to ride the trike.</p
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