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Google Earth recently added a “NASA layer,” and new reports indicate that Microsoft’s also interested in the agency; Photosynth, the company’s digital…
Who knows your town better: you or Google? Unless you live in Mountain View, California, I’m betting it’s not Google. So the search giant is experimenting with crowdsourcing as a way of making its maps more detailed.
Union Square Ventures’s past investments include Del.icio.us and FeedBurner; it’s currently backing Twitter, Indeed, and AdaptiveBlue. Union Square Ventures is also behind a lawsuit against Union Square Partners, and, for simplicity’s sake, I’ll henceforth refer to the entities as “Ventures” and “Partners.”
I've become enamored with Google's Hot Trends feature that lists the top 100 searches for a particular day. It's a glimpse into the culture that's hard to get, in crisp clear text. Even if you're not sure you want to see. It's also a good, simple way to keep up with what's going on in the news, really. A spike of searches for "fisher price…
Once a site gets so popular you can almost guarantee the negative press to begin – that seems to be the nature of the beast, disallowing the sunset ride off to be completely free of potholes. But every now and then (not often enough, in other words) something very nicely warm and fuzzy, like an early Christmas story, gets through.
Before today, I don’t think I’d ever heard of the British National Party - guess I need to brush up on my racist, far-right organizations. But it would seem that Vodafone and five other major corporations know the name, and they pulled out of deals with Facebook after their ads were placed on the BNP’s profile page.
