Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
-
Street View expands
-
Docs gets PDF storage
-
Feedburner's new address
-
Google Reader, Contra-style
-
Grand Theft Google
-
GBroswer rumors
Posts with tag StreetView
Googleholic for June 10, 2008
Googleholic for May 13, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
In this edition:
In this edition:
- Search for real estate on Google Maps
- Faces getting blurred in Street View
- Gmail gets slight loading speed boost
- Wikipedia comes to Google Maps
Googleholic for April 29, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
In this edition:
- Street View for Google map directions
- Google's PageRank for images: VisualRank
- Stock Screener for Google Finance
- Speaker Notes and YouTube videos for Google Presentations
Googleholic for April 15, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
- Geotagged YouTube videos on Google Maps
- Google Earth 4.3 to be released later today, includes Street View
- Market leader in China within 5 years - Goodbye Baidu?
Google Maps diminishing value of homes, causing "mental suffering"?
They didn't like that Google invaded their "privacy". Some of the court papers are available online, and if you check them out, you'll notice mainly boring gibberish but also the address of the home. Suing Google has already done more damage to their "privacy" than the pictures on their own.
Aaron and Christine Boring want at least $25,000 and the 360 degree pictures destroyed, but something tells us the case doesn't stand a chance against Google's well paid, state-of-the-art, corporate lawyers, which come from the best lawyer factories in the nation.
Googleholic for March 28, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google.
This week:
- Google revamps privacy policy
- Street View gets more cities
- Get rid of Google Calendar spam
Four more cities added to Google street View
Of course, the first thing anyone does when Google announces new features is indulge their inner voyeur by seeking out the strangest possible street views. So far, the best we've found is a Stormtrooper on Hollywood Boulevard and a photo glitch that makes these two women look like they're being sucked into a digital vortex, feet first.
Anyone got something better/more bizarre?
[via Streetviewr]
Surprise, Google Streetview maps already has your picture
Google is hot on the task of taking streetview pictures, and Gizmodo has pictures to prove it. Earlier this month a fleet of cars was spotted in the Googleplex parking lot with cameras attached to the roofs, so we knew it was only a matter of time before they were unleashed to the world. It looks like the Chevy Cobalts have finally been allowed to roam around the US taking pictures of major cities to add to Google's Streetview maps project with their 360° cameras. So far spotting locations include southern California, Redwood City, Chicago, and Boise Idaho. If any DLS readers come across the Google Streetview fleet, feel free to send your pictures in, and let us know where you have seen them.
Google Streetview getting ready to invade the world
Google's Streetview maps project has only just launched in a few U.S. cities thus far, however, some shocking new discoveries by a tipster has us wondering what Google is planning.
A Gizmodo reader followed a Google camera van that had been taking pictures around California back to the Googleplex, and stumbled upon a rather shocking surprise. A fleet of Chevy Cobalt cars suited up with what appears to be harnesses for 360° cameras. We can only assume that Google is planning on dispatching them around the US, and possibly into other major cities in the world as they get ready to expand Streetview maps. The cars have no license plates, but they do all have a metal device attached to the roof which could possibly be a camera mount of some sort.
With that said, get ready to draw your blinds and get ready for a full invasion of your privacy, because you are about to be Streetviewed.
EveryScape: Google Street View killer?
If you were impressed with Google Street View, you ain't seen nothing yet. EveryScape is a new service set to launch this fall that presents a realistic 3D view of streetscapes and public places by putting together information from 2D photos.
You can navigate through the streetscape by clicking on green arrow buttons. Where information is available, you can also click on icons to find out what buildings you're looking at, which is a nice feature. There's a sample streetscape of the area around San Francisco's Union Square up on EveryScape's website. Here's a little screengrab we did (the graphics are actually a bit more fluid than the video suggests, but our video capture software prefers low framerates.
Based on the sample, the images appear to be more detailed than Google Street View, with no visible gaps between images.
EveryScape plans to add more cities, starting with Boston, New York and Seattle. While the streetscapes will be photographed by EveryScape photographers, the site also plans to use photos submitted by users to flesh out their offering
[via O'Reilly radar]
You can navigate through the streetscape by clicking on green arrow buttons. Where information is available, you can also click on icons to find out what buildings you're looking at, which is a nice feature. There's a sample streetscape of the area around San Francisco's Union Square up on EveryScape's website. Here's a little screengrab we did (the graphics are actually a bit more fluid than the video suggests, but our video capture software prefers low framerates.
Based on the sample, the images appear to be more detailed than Google Street View, with no visible gaps between images.
EveryScape plans to add more cities, starting with Boston, New York and Seattle. While the streetscapes will be photographed by EveryScape photographers, the site also plans to use photos submitted by users to flesh out their offering
[via O'Reilly radar]
Cottage industry pops up around unusual Google Street View sightings
So it turns out Google Maps Street View is good for finding a lot more than aliens, cats in windows, and guys exiting porn shops. In fact, in the short time since Google launched its new service, finding oddball photos has become an addictive new way to kill time for some. But if you don't have the time to search the country street by street for photos of robots, you might want to check out Streetviewr (despite the hokey web 2.0 insistence on leaving the final "E" out of the site's title).
Streetviewr is a rather simple page where users can upload interesting or funny images found using Google Street View. A rather large number seem to be photos of people with missing heads and cars that don't look quite right because the 360 degree photos didn't line up very well. But some of the user-submitted coordinates and captions are good for a laugh.
[via Frantic Industries]
Google Maps Street View invades privacy, exposes alien life
BoingBoing reader Mary Kalin-Casey noticed that you can see in her apartment window. In fact, when you look into her living room, you'll see her cat peeking back at you. Of course, the first thing she did when she discovered this invasion of personal privacy was to email the link out to the world, so go figure.
But wait, that's not all. As one Gizmodo reader noticed, if you know where to look, you can also find what appears to be an image of E.T. attempting to phone home -- and almost getting sliced in half by a laser beam. Or something. You can check out that image after the jump.
Continue reading Google Maps Street View invades privacy, exposes alien life
Google Maps Street View goes live
Google has launched its new "Street View" feature for Google Maps, and it's pretty sweet. We'd post a picture, but a video is worth a thousand words... or pictures in this case. Here's a video from Barry Schwartz showing a Street View of the area around his office building in Suffern, NY.
Basically, the Google Maps toolbar is getting a little more crowded, with a new "Street View" button next to "traffic." When you click the button, certain streets in covered areas (such as New York and San Francisco) will turn blue, and a little yellow man shows up on the screen. Click the yellow dude and drag him over to a blue street to view a street-level image.
Once you've got the street view, you can click on arrow buttons to move forward or backward. Click elsewhere on the image and drag left or right to change your angle. All the images cover 360 degrees.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
Basically, the Google Maps toolbar is getting a little more crowded, with a new "Street View" button next to "traffic." When you click the button, certain streets in covered areas (such as New York and San Francisco) will turn blue, and a little yellow man shows up on the screen. Click the yellow dude and drag him over to a blue street to view a street-level image.
Once you've got the street view, you can click on arrow buttons to move forward or backward. Click elsewhere on the image and drag left or right to change your angle. All the images cover 360 degrees.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
