Over The Counter Culture

Roll your own
Latest Posts »
Popular »
» Microphilanthropy is to traditional charity what dual core processors are to single-core processors
» Paradoxical lifestyles
» Backyard boffins beating Europe’s biggest
» Manifesto for Microphilanthropy
» Google Friend Connect - part 2: The largest Social Network ever built
» Social networking dividend of open conversations
» Conversation platforms will make blogs redundant
» Arsenal FC transfer budget to be cut ‘because of property market slowdown’
« WTF-Of-The-Day 2: Cultural differences
Wireframe graffiti »

Google Earth just keeps getting better and better

Now with amazing lighting effects (including day/night, sunshine coming through the clouds, etc) - but more importantly, now with StreetView. Watch the video below - what an incredible tool. Think back to human endeavour and exploration over human history; Humanity can be really, really proud of having got to this - a free, publically available, interactive tool with a lot of user-generated content, available to anyone with a PC and an internet connection.

Bookmark/Share:

Related:

Google Friend Connect - part 2: The largest Social Network ever built
Having originally assumed that the reason Facebook, Hi5 and LinkedIn (FHL), amongst others, were involved in the Google Friend Connect (GFC) service, I initially wanted to write this post to argue...
Revision
Currently printing out my note output (I'm experimenting with mindmaps generated with Freemind) from the past few weeks for exams in a fortnight. Started with a relatively simple one to make...
Google Friend Connect - part I: it’s about the data
This week, Google announced a new tool to help me and all other website owners create social  features in our sites. It's a library of javascript gadgets that I link to (in the Google library)...

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 at 11:05 am and is filed under Culture bucket. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

discussion by DISQUS
Add New Comment
Go to Forum —  Track Comments —  Comments RSS
  • Home
  • About
  • List all posts
  • Categories
    • Culture bucket
    • Lifestream
    • Musings
    • New science
  • Search

Over The Counter Culture is proudly powered by WordPress
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).