Google Lat Long Blog: Getting from ‘Here to there’ with My Location in Google Maps
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Getting From ‘here To There’ With My Location In Google Maps
When getting directions on Google Maps, we suggest an origin or destination after you type the first few characters. But, we want to save you even more time by eliminating the need to type your current address each time. Today you can start using ‘My Location’ as a starting or ending point for your directions using the familiar ‘blue dot’ found in Google Maps for mobile.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: “Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Street View: Our biggest update yet
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Since we launched Street View on Google Maps in the U.S. in 2007 we’ve added 26 more countries and enabled you to explore images across all seven continents. Today we’re excited to share with you the latest expansion of Street View because it’s our biggest update yet.New imagery is now available for 13 of our established Street View countries: Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Romania, South Africa, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
I like wine so I’m particularly interested in seeing the new imagery around Italy’s famous Chianti region and other beautiful areas of Tuscany. Across the mediterranean in Spain, the home of another renowned wine is available with the addition of the Rioja province.
And as a food lover I’m keen on discovering Denmark’s beautiful chain of Smålands Islands - famous for its fruits that have inspired many Danish chefs and the new Nordic cuisine movement. In neighbouring Sweden there has been a significant increase in coverage across the country with Lake Siljan now included, along with the popular tourist towns of Rättvik, Leksand and Mora.
The southernmost tip of Africa is also now available with the addition of South Africa’s Cape Agulhas. The cape is where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet and is notoriously hazardous for sailors.
And across the other side of the world, you can view the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s Hahajima, one of the remote Ogasawara islands.
In addition, this latest batch of street-level imagery includes higher resolution panoramic views of places throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego. This is great for both locals and potential visitors of these popular California destinations, who can now see even more realistic views of landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge, Staples Center, and USS Midway.
Of course, these are just a few of the many fascinating places in today’s release of new Street View imagery, so we encourage you to look around and virtually experience them for yourself right in Google Maps. Be it for armchair travel from the comfort of your computer, or to figure out where you might want to visit on your next vacation, we’re thrilled to continue our expansion of Street View.
Google Lat Long Blog: Street View: Our biggest update yet
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Apple's Final Cut Is Dead. Long Live Final Cut
Apple’s Final Cut Pro is the leading video-editing program. It’s a $1,000 professional app. It was used to make “The Social Network,” “True Grit,” “Eat Pray Love” and thousands of student movies, independent films and TV shows. According to the research firm SCRI, it has 54 percent of the video-editing market, far more than its rivals from Adobe and Avid.
Did I use the present tense? Sorry about that. Final Cut was the industry leader. It did cost $1,000. But that’s all over now.
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Apple's Final Cut Is Dead. Long Live Final Cut
Backlink: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/technology/personaltech/23pogue.html?_r=2
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: My Places now helps you manage your important locations
Almost every day you encounter new places and businesses, whether it’s a new store you spotted on your commute to work, or a restaurant you visited with friends over the weekend. To date, you’ve been able to star places on Google Maps, rate them via Google Places, or add them to a customized map with your own icons and annotations through My Maps.
Google Lat Long Blog: My Places now helps you manage your important locations
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Better access to your content is, well, better
(Cross-posted from the Google Places Blog.)
Google Places makes it quick and easy for you to tell your friends, and the world, what you think about the places you visit.
Google Lat Long Blog: Better access to your content is, well, better
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
In The Long Run, Facebook Will Be Bigger Than Google
NEW YORK -- Twitter is not "executing," says Esther Dyson, one of Silicon Alley's most respected brains.
On stage at SAI's Startup 2011 event, Dyson tackled the big companies in tech, offering a pithy assessment of each. Facebook, she says, will be bigger than Google because it's in the "people" business. Google is not.
Twitter is failing to develop its platform, which could have long term implications. Dyson reminded the crowd, "Most companies don't get murdered, they commit suicide." She added, Twitter "has great potential, and maybe they'll pull it off."
After she spoke on stage, we pulled her aside and asked her to explain why Facebook is going to be huge. Below is the audio of our conversation:
Esther Dyson is a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the US and other markets, including Russia. Since selling her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks in 2004, Dyson has explored (and invested) in private aviation and space and continued to invest in internet and health care startups.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Comment on The Application Is Dead; Long Live the App by ronald
"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie
This is the Unix philosophy:
Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. [1]
Then along came, cpio,find, vi, emacs .... Let's see if history repeats itself, since it seems like design history is already forgotten.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
Comment on The Application Is Dead; Long Live the App by ronald
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: An Update on Tags
[Cross-posted from the Google Small Business Blog]
As users increasingly rely on tools like Google Maps and Places for information about the world around them, we're working hard to develop products that help local businesses highlight themselves and their offerings.
Google Lat Long Blog: An Update on Tags
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U.K. Trucks "Go Long" for Cleaner Emissions
by Jo Borras
An independent UK study recently showed that increasing the overall length of commercial trucks could dramatically reduce overall emissions without compromising safety. The study (available for download here) showed that a 2 meter increase in maximum length (without an increase in maximum weight) could "increase capacity for haulers transporting lightweight goods by up to 13 percent, and cut carbon emissions by around one hundred thousand tonnes each year."
How big of an impact will cutting 100,000 tonnes of carbon emissions have in more familiar terms? I'm glad you asked.
1 gallon of diesel fuel is allowed by the EPA (whose standard is comparable to Euro5) to contain 2778 g of carbon. Each tonne of carbon emissions contains 1 million grams of carbon. Some quick (probably flawed) math puts the "emissions savings" at just under 360 gallons of diesel (1,000,000 / 2,778 = 359.9). Saving that 100,000 tonnes, then, is roughly equivalent to not burning 36 million gallons of diesel each year (360 x 100,000 = 36,000,000).
If any of that math is even halfway correct, lengthening trucks could be a huge win for the environment.
What do you think, readers? I know we have a few energy industry guys out there - am I doing the math correctly? Have I dramatically over-simplified things ... and by how much? Let us know in the comments, below.
Reprinted with permission from Gas 2.0
U.K. Trucks "Go Long" for Cleaner Emissions
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Hotpot is going Places
Last November, we introduced Hotpot, our recommendation engine to help people discover great new places when they search on Google. It’s simple: Rate and review the places you know, add friends whose opinions you trust and we serve you up personalized recommendations based on those tastes.
Google Lat Long Blog: Hotpot is going Places
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Check in, gain status, and unlock offers at more places with Google Latitude
Last month, we rolled out Google Latitude check-in offers for 60 places around Austin. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with some great partners to let you unlock check-in offers at thousands of places across the U.S.
Google Lat Long Blog: Check in, gain status, and unlock offers at more places with Google Latitude
Monday, March 28, 2011
This Is How Long "Overnight Success" Really Takes
I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Here is some data from Wikipedia:
- Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.
- Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products.
- Yahoo! - This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In April, 1996, Yahoo! had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 million, by selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each. Amazon.com and Yahoo! are the benchmarks in the industry for overnight success, but still required two to three years to really get going.
- Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.
- Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 million. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.
- Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. Very rare case.
Take heed. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good. Investors will always look askance these days at a business plan which projects Amazon.com results.
With most businesses you rarely hear about the months and years of hard work behind the scenes. You rarely hear about the major catastrophes followed by major miracles that brought the businesses back from the brink. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson.
If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind. You’ll be thinking that to be a success your business has to make you a billionaire in three years. Then you’ll give up way too soon.
This notion of overnight success is an urban legend, and very misleading. If you're starting something new, expect a long and challenging journey. But that's no excuse to move slowly. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target. Time passes quickly in this mode.
Marty Zwilling
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This Is How Long "Overnight Success" Really Takes
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Post-earthquake images of Japan
In response to the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan, we’ve worked with our satellite imagery providers to get the latest available data of the areas affected most.
Google Lat Long Blog: Post-earthquake images of Japan
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Google Hotpot now on Google.com and around the world
Monday, January 24, 2011
Google Lat Long Blog: Share your photos about Places
When looking for information about a place on Google Maps, I immediately look for photos to help decide if it’s the right place for the occasion I have in mind. Whether looking for images of a restaurant’s cuisine, or getting a feel for the ambiance at a local bookstore, photos immediately help me learn more about a place.
Google Lat Long Blog: Share your photos about Places
Backlink: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/SbSV/~3/zgT6bVOlPBs/share-your-photos-about-places.html
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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