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Friday Geonews: One-Click StreetView, Buffers in Lat-Long, Books, Location Privacy, Map of Global Debt, and much more

The Friday geonews in batch mode, including anything pertinent that we haven't shared yet.

On the Google front:

• Google announced single-click StreetView navigation
• Last March was announced that Google Mapplets were on their way out, their annihilation plan begun
• The GEB shares an entry on animated 3D models in Google Earth
• There will soon be bike directions for many Canadian cities in Google Maps

On the ESRI front:

• An entry on a mosaic image finder addin for ArcMap

In the miscellaneous category:

• MDA released a National Urban Change Indicator for the U.S.
• Here's an interesting entry (it must be since its involves Slartibartfast ;-) on removing complexities of complex polygons
• Here's an entry showing us what happens when you compute circular buffers in geographic coordinates
• If you're looking for geobooks to give at Christmas, The Map Room shares lists of geospatial-related books released this year
• There's also a new book named Preservation in Digital Cartography, co-authored by Tracey P. Lauriault, Peter L. Pulsifer and D.R. Fraser Taylor
• This entry explains why location privacy is different from privacy

In the maps category:

• From numerous sources, here's a one-minute video of the last 88 years of presidential election results in the U.S.
• The Map Room offers a long review the ninth edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World
• The Economist shares an informative and scary interactive map of the global public debt
• In the same vein, GeoCurrents shares an entry named the So-Called Happy Planet Index, which includes a map
• The Strange Maps blog shares a Map of the World's Countries Rearranged by Population

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Comment on For $55, What Kind of LTE Experience Does MetroPCS Deliver? by tom

i would disagree with the statement from metroPCS about what their customers are looking for. i am quite familiar with the retail environment in both metroPCS and cricket retail stores. high end smartphones(usually flashed(converted) from verizon or sprint) are not only in very high demand(far beyond the supply) plus prepaid customers are easily willing to pay in the $400 - $700 range for used phones. that is something very different from the major carriers. the reality is that metro's leapfroging of 3G means that for now at least customers are unable to use fast data on the phones they can easily obtain(new or used phones flashed from spring or verizon) and are instead limited to either metro's limited 4G selection or using WIFI only for data.

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Mark Zuckerberg And An Army Of Insurgent Entrepreneurs Just Declared War On The TV, Music, News, And Movie Industries

At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a six minute speech about how, starting sometime in the next five years, he expects his company to make billions and billions of dollars turning the TV, news, film, and music industries upside down.

The speech was nuanced and obviously pre-planned. It contained big revelations. But because it came in the middle of a wide-ranging, hour-long interview, hardly anybody noticed.

The gist: As has already happened in the gaming industry – where Zynga now has a larger market cap than Electronic Arts – Facebook expects insurgent entrepreneurs to "reform" the film, TV, news, e-commerce and music industries with the help of Facebook. Some of these companies will be incumbents. Some will unseat incumbents.  Facebook will then – perhaps through credits or advertising, but also perhaps some other way – tax these companies in exchange for the value it has added.

Here's how Zuckergberg put it:

"Anything that involves content or specific expertise in an area – games, music, movies, TV, news, anything in media, anything e-commerce, any of this stuff.

Over the next five years, those verticals are going to be completely re-thought. There are going to be some really good businesses built.

Our view is that we should play a role in helping to re-form and re-think all those industries, and we'll get value proportional to what we put in. In gaming, we get some percentage of the value of those companies through ads and credits. But that's all because we're helping them.

If we're helpful to other industries in building out what would be a good solution then there will be some way we get value from that. "

In the next few days, we're going to publish a speculative story on how Facebook can "reform" those industries the way it has been able to funnel hundreds of millions of users into social gaming. We'll be talking about some of these issues at our Ignition conference next week too. We'd love to hear your thoughts, too. Comment below or email us at Nicholas@businessinsider.com.

In the meantime, we've embedded Zuckerberg's speech here:

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See Also:

• What I, Eduardo Saverin, Learned From Watching “The Social Network”
• Here's Some Real Damage Mark Zuckerberg Did To The Winklevoss Brothers That Wasn't In "The Social Network"
• Peter Thiel Rips Early Facebook Employee Eduardo Saverin And The Social Network Movie

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Another option for virtual WiFI in Windows 7

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CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Has The Least Expensive Paid Apps (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG)

Mobile analytics company Distimo took a look at the pricing across mobile apps, with particular attention paid to Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 app store.

Turns out paid Windows Phone 7 apps are the cheapest out there, costing half the price of Windows Mobile (its old app store) apps. The average price for a top 100 paid Windows Phone 7 app is $2.54. For other app stores it's $3.05.

Of course, paid apps are only a small sliver of the app market. Most are free. Regardless, it's interesting to note that the average price of a paid app is less than $4. And most people are still reluctant to pay for apps, which must drive developers crazy.

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Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by John Conor

The US DoJ uses a particular test to determine if a firm has monopoly power - the Herfindahl - Hirschmann index (HHI). Using this as the sole indicator, and thinking reasonably carefully about the markets in which each plays (search and web-delivered ads for the first, 'social network' connections for the second): Google and Facebook absolutely have monopoly power. The answers for the others are less clear. I have not read Prof. Wu's book (and can't get it except, ahem, to my Kindle, since I live in Asia), so cannot tell if he used the DoJ numerical definition, or how precisely he used term monopoly at all.

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Social Point of Sale: The Holy Grail for Location-Based Marketers

Zachary Adam Cohen runs ZAC, Digital Agency, a boutique digital strategy firm in New York City, working with brands and businesses to re-equip themselves for success in the 21st century. He blogs regularly on topics such as social media, technology s

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Comment on With Perfect Timing, Acer Outs a Pair of Android Tablets by PRETHOUGHT

Hopefully the tablet optimization of Android is better than that of Samsung because it's awful on the Galaxy Tab. That's impressive though 600,000 bought into mediocrity and at a pretty steep price too. Unless they opt for the 2 year enslavement while others get better tablets in the near future :) That is pretty smart of Acer to wait it out. No matter how entrenched the iPad becomes it only takes one killer must have feature to knock off the market leader.

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Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by eideard

The paranoid rarely change - except, occasionally, the direction of their fears. A foolish waste of time and energy.

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Comment on Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? by PRETHOUGHT

Yeah, tell me about it. Now complete proud owner Novell! 420 million dollars worth to MS and then the rest to Attachmate another company owned by MS just to make it look like it's not an anti-trust case. Android and Linux users be prepared for the MS lawsuit assaults!!!!! In 2011 the battle royal against open source will begin!

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Here are new photos of Google's latest secret smartphone, the Nexus S

Here are new photos of Google's latest secret smartphone, the Nexus S

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