Filed under: Internet, Web services
Earthmine takes on Google Street View
Basically, Earthmine is working on an online mapping service that will provide street level views much more detailed than those available with Google Street View. The images are gathered using laser range-finding and still cameras. Google on the other hand, is taking its imagery from video cameras.
As you can see in the screenshot above, Earthmine will also enable the addition of tags and labels to imagery.
While Earthmine does plan to launch a consumer oriented portal, the company is looking to sell its services to businesses and government agencies.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
