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Google mashes self, begins mapping locations found in books

Google products are no strangers to mashups from all forms of enthusiastic users and 3rd parties, but you know something cool is brewing when Google mashes up two of their most visionary services: Maps and Book Search. Recently on the Google Book Search blog, David Petrou announced this cool new feature, which they've added to the "About this Book" section of books you find in Google Book Search. Now, not all books will that have text about a location or two will get a map link (at least for now), but the ones that do will also include links to the actual pages of the book where a mapped location is mentioned.

If you want to see how cool this all is, the announcement post includes links to quite a few examples of books they've already mapped, such as Around the World in Eighty Days, Illustrated New York (1888) and The Travels of Marco Polo.

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services, Google, Social Software

See the world with Panoramio

panoramioPanoramio is a Google Maps mashup that lets you map your photos. It also lets you check out foreign, and local, destinations and images that others have submitted. With Panoramio, users store up to 2GB worth of digital images in their free account, and pinpoint the exact location they were taken, care of Google Maps. This could be a great way to walk your friends through a recent hiking trip in Arizona, or a European vacation route, or quite simply your path to work. I love these kinds of social mashups. They provide a ton of insight into geographical locations, and make me think more about locations that I might want to check out one day, and reminisce about locations that I once was. Not too many places are listed at the moment, but once this catches on, I'm sure its going to provide a lot of great content.

Filed under: Internet, News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Productivity, Web services, Google, Social Software

Saved locations feature added to Google Maps

Saved locations feature added to Google MapsGoogle has added a 'Saved Locations' feature to Google Maps, complete with labels and auto-completion. Once signed into Google Maps, the service will begin auto-saving all addresses you type in (this is toggle-able from preferences). Clicking the Saved Locations option in the upper right of Google Maps takes you to your list of addresses where you can begin entering your own, including a label for each such as 'work', 'home', etc. Once a label has been applied to a location, Google Maps can recognize and auto-complete the label as well, saving you from having to re-type all those addresses. Auto-completing even works when searching for businesses, as in the example provides in their blog's announcement post: typing a business search like 'pizza near work' can expand the label 'work', provided you've entered one.

This is a really slick and time-saving feature, and it'll be great to see if Google takes it a few steps further some day. I would love it if Google Maps could tie into my Gmail account and offer the ability to auto-complete addresses from my contacts. So if I begin to type 'beer near John Doe', Google Maps can be the facilitator for even speedier alcohol consumption. Ah, the wonders of technology.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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