Google Maps Street View

Not sure if everyone has seen this or not, but Google recently released a new feature in Google Maps called “Street View”.  To check it out, go to a map of San Francisco and click “street view”.  Streets that have a street view show up in blue, and if you click anywhere on the blue street, it will give you a street-level picture of what is at that exact spot.  Now that is cool!

I’m assuming Google is doing this by driving around and taking pictures of everything.  I’m not sure how feasible is for them to do this on a national level without some sort of user-generated content.  However, if they open up that can of worms, how will they police it?

Either way, it’s pretty cool stuff!

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Google acquires Feedburner

I must have missed this due to my busyness last week.  I wonder what Google will do with Feedburner?  There are a lot of “geeks” out there that tend to decry Feedburner for whatever reason, but it’s a service that I’ve always liked.  It came in especially handy when I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress last year.  I didn’t have to worry about giving everyone a new RSS feed for the new site.  Instead, I justed changed everything over in Feedburner and walla! 

It’s just like when the law changed a few years ago allowing you to keep your same cell phone number when you change between carriers.  You didn’t have to worry about calling 100 people to tell them your new number.

Sweetness.

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This is pretty funny…

Go here to read how to get to Madrid from Philadelphia

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