UPDATE 4/9/08: Seems there was some confusion sparked by this piece, which is, at best, a muddled, meandering, word-labyrinth posing as an unconventional, smart-alecky essay on web journalism/blogging. That’s okay, any reader would find himself in good company lost amid my verbose effluvia. For crying out loud, I used a word like "bildungsroman" and made references not just to Roman mythology but also to an obscure Persian king 3,500 years dead.
Google: Naming Water Is Complicated
Territorial claims and historical precedent makes applying a name to a body of water in Google Earth a challenging deluge.
Google Docs Asks What You’re Doing This Weekend
For whatever reason(s), Google Docs hasn’t really caught on in offices. So, in what appears to be a Plan B, the company is attempting to show how the application can be useful in people’s off-the-clock lives.
Get Your Blog Google-Ranked In 30 Days or Less
Blogs have been around long enough to become standard elements of the web landscape. They’re easy to construct and manage, they create fresh, user-generated content and, if well-executed, blogs draw crowds and the attention of search engines.Whether starting out with a new domain name, or a domain that’s been around for a decade, you can rank your blog on Google if you just do what Google wants you to do. So here are 25/50 tips to get your blog ranked by the world’s biggest SE.
“Boring” Lawsuit Confronts Google Street View
It was only a matter of time before Google got sued over Street View; the real question was which privacy group (or sympathetic person representing a privacy group) would be first to file. And now a couple with the last name "Boring" has beaten them all to it.
Google Earth Adds New York Times Layer
Google has partnered with The New York Times to allow users to track the news geographically in a layer on Google Earth.Users can follow the news by location (city, state, country, neighborhood) and by section (U.S., Foreign, Sports, Travel). Items on the layer are mapped based on place names given to each article when it is uploaded to NYTimes.com. The items include headlines and the first paragraph with links back to the full story or that particular section.
Couple Suing Google Maps For Private Residence Pictures
We’ve heard all kinds of privacy concerns since Google Maps launched its Street View photos last May, most of which have had l
Google Offers Overviews Of Olympic Torch Relay
To some people, the Summer Olympics are little more than a nuisance – their television viewing schedules get messed up, don’tcha know. But those who really enjoy the Games may be glad for the chance to watch the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Google Maps and Google Earth.
Google: We Really Tried To Get 700MHz License
Now that FCC requirements on not discussing the wireless spectrum auction have passed, Google disclosed a little information about the process and their participation.
Google Maps Gets Contour Lines
Contour lines don’t come up on a daily basis; it’s rare enough that anyone even checks a map. But contour lines do have a number of uses, and Google has just introduced the lines on its Terrain Maps option within Google Maps.