Google Maps Street View is a famous service which provides high-resolution photos straight from the street, allowing users to enjoy amazing panoramas from several locations in the world. Although there are only a few similar services on the market, there’s one which may represent a real alternative for Google’s service. Codenamed MapJack, the street imagery service only provides photos of San Francisco, Sausalito (United States) and Chiang Mai (Thailand), but the quality of the pictures is quite outstanding. And just like Ionut Alex Chitu, the one who blogged about the service, noted, “they look so good that you almost think you’re there.”
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Google Street View added imagery for 13 more US cities and for the Yosemite National Park. The new cities are: Albuquerque, Anchorage, Austin, Cleveland, Fairbanks, Little Rock, Madison, Nashville, Rockford, Richmond, Spokane, St. Petersburg, Tampa. The total number of places where Street View is available has increased to 48 and it’s likely that Google will add imagery from outside of the US in the near future.
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It’s easy to just pick a story whenever there’s a slow news day and write off-topic, but when the topic is as high in the clouds as this one, there’s nothing really left to do but stare at the picture for minutes without blinking and trying to make sense of all the underlying logic and implications. What else is there to say?
The banner was spotted in Los Angeles and was thought of by the Hollywood United Methodist Church, in an attempt to woo younger converts. The newest type of addiction psychologists have discovered and just acknowledged as being real is the addiction to the Internet. Spending hours and hours surfing from site to site, clicking on links after links is the newest type of coke, and it should be interesting to see a survey comparing the number of addicts to both. My money is on the Web winning by a landslide.
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Google Sky was already a feature of desktop app Google Earth. Now it’s moved to the browser at sky.google.com.
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