Nine Inch Nails Tracks Downloads of 'The Slip' via Google Earth

This is the first time I've seen this done.  Pretty cool.  Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they posted...

Google Earth and the Campaign to Wipe Israel Off the Map

Andre Oboler is a social media expert and  Ph.D. in computer science from Lancaster University, UK and  a Post-Doc in Political Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is currently a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor in Jerusalem and edits...

Google begins to blur faces in Street View

In response to privacy concerns, Google has developed a face-blurring technology for its Street View service."The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for faces, then blurs them, said...

Russian military base found on the border with Estoni

Even that there has not been armed conflict after the second independence of Estonia, the  troubles at Estonia - Russia border are not disappearing for a while. "If you look at the Google Earth map and follow the route A-212 to the west of the Russian town Pskov, you can...

NowPublic Weekly Roundup

From some of us to all of you: a brief vidcast of a few of this week's original stories, plus some changes on the site itself.I shot this using a point-an'-shoot digital camera, editing it in iMovie-- we went lo-fi,...

Google Earth Gets Sharper Satellite

Great..now Google will get to see my in my panties in my living...

Fossett sought via Google Earth

"Images from Google Earth are being enrolled in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. Many people are scouring up-to-date satellite images of Nevada to try to spot Mr Fossett's downed plane or wreckage. The project is being co-ordinated via Amazon's human-powered problem...

Google's "star map" has arrived

"The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced the results of their cooperative effort with Google, Inc., to incorporate astronomical data into a browsable utility. It's a start! And a pretty good one..."

'Workstreams' for mobile business?

So Google made good on all their mobile machinations and release a product that knits together GeoRSS and KML and it's called Google MyMaps. Intrigued by the idea of drawing my own maps, I decided to plot out the route I take when I jog. What's immediately obvious is that...

German Krankheit: Germany Censors Geodata - And Shifts Back Into Communist Er...

German online IT newspage Heise.de reports in its Tuesday edition that the German legislator drafts a law that would forbid the dissemination of precise geodata. Some remark, it is a shift into full gear, back into communist era censorship. According to the report, the German...

Houston / Galveston Commerical Ship Traffic via AIS at Vesseltrax.com

Technology plays a large part in all our lives from the simple act of answering your cellphone to the mundane task of channel surfing with the remote while at home. Now professinal mariners navigating the nations waterways with GPS can utilize a helpful navigational tool by...

Farmers Get Help From Google Earth In Campaign Against SEZ

Farmers in Raigad district use satellite imagery to prove that their lands are fertile, thus thwarting a state government move to acquire their lands for the development of the Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone at cheap rates by claiming it was not productive...

Google erases British bases in Iraq

"Terrorists planned attacks using Google Earth, Army says It appears Google has replaced recent satellite imagery of British military bases in Basra with pre-war snaps following Army claims that terrorists were using Google Earth to plan attacks on its facilities.…"

Google space weapon obliterates 50m insect

"Rampaging earwig blown from Google Earth Those among you who think that Google is nothing more than a force for international evil masquerading as an internet ad-punting outfit will have to think again. We have just received news that messrs Brin and Page are using their...

Virtual 3D Earth-Microsoft 3D maps respond to Google Earth

via Buckleupnow: Microsoft comes out Virtual Earth, which seems to look like a sure shot killer application. It is a Virtual Earth with 3D capabilities, to be rightly called as 3d maps. Currently virtual earth...

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