The last month has been interesting for the Google Earth-is-a-national-security-threat set: First, the DC Naval Observatory--home to the Vice President--emerged from several years of obscurity to appear in high-res glory the week of the inauguration, arousing suspicion that Dick Cheney was behind th...

I spent most of this afternoon at the Google East HQ at the Google Maps and Earth Hackathon. I am very glad I attended as I entered with basically zero knowledge about how to write code for Google Maps and now I know enough to get started. About 40 people attended the hackathon and surprisingly only...

The problem with “grass roots” as a metaphor is that it reduces its contributors to the miniscopic. Not microscopic, because then you couldn’t see them without a microscope. But miniscopic, meaning they’re small. You have to get down on all fours to eyeball them and say hi. S...

It is far from beautiful online games. But Monster Milk Truck is special because it is the first game created for Google Earth Plugin.  Expect a ’smooth drive’ on your way delivering milks. It can even going through any building ahead of you. Bored with default location? Teleport yourse...

Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store Hard on the heels of my review of Geotags, some of our readers suggested we take a look at Waypoints, [App Store link] which has some similar functions and a smoother interface. Waypoints, which is US $2.99, can save any GPS location you choose, and allow you...

Filed under: Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG) One of the market's biggest criticisms of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is that it offers a large number of products that don't make the company money. To make matters worse, some of these offerings will probably never bring in a dime and that is a big drag o...

Een nieuwe opdracht rondom Sketchup. In deze opdracht moeten de leerlingen een nieuw huis ontwerpen voor de familie Jansen. Hun oude huis is afgebrand. Voor het nieuwe huis mochten ze allemaal een wens opgeven. In sketchup werken de leerlingen de opdracht verder uit. Ik zal op de thema (het nieuwe h...

Mario_grgic writes "Recently announced Google Earth version 5.0 adds interesting new physiognomy like images of ocean floors and some thoroughgoing images of Mars. But it also brings another unwelcome change for Mac OS X users. Google top brass update daemon is installed when the form is launched fo...

Image byhttp://www.prestonlee.com/archives/67 via CrunchBase I am not sure any of the old media could ever pull off the a digital newsroom !  There are certain content creators like Chris Brogan Seth Godin Steve Rubel Dave Winer who could show them how, but will they understand !   I don’t ...

Drag, dude.  Earlier today, Swiss police announced the discovery of a large marijuana plantation hidden amongst cornfields thanks to a chance encounter via Google Earth.  Thanks to the ever-popular eye in the sky of Google, 16 people and 1.1 metric tons of grass are now in custody of police.  The...