A Social Network for Google Earth?

Arizona State University\’s students have the opportunity to test a new product “that will be publicly launched later this year”. The invitation page mentions that the product is developed by “a major Internet company”…

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Second Earth

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I've been talkinng lately that it might be sort of web 3.0 when Facebook and Google Earth and Second Life type epxeriences merge - Second Earth social networks anyone? I thought I was just dreaming out loud and…

Bientôt un univers virtuel chez Google ?

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C’est la question que se pose le (très respectable) site Google Operating System : A Social Network for Google Earth?.
Selon l’auteur, un “acteur majeur de l’internet” serait en train de recruter des…

Social Google Earth, anyone?

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Over at RealityPrime, Avi Bar-Zeev riffs and speculates on the strong hint that Google is building a social network application with a 3D component. What could it possibly entail?

Imagine it more concretely: repurpose…

The year of the social network

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Dave Winer at Scripting News: there's no doubt that 2007 is the year of the social network in Silicon Valley. This may not be the year when huge wealth is created, but I don't doubt that the area is fertile, and…

Google Pack Adds StarOffice

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Google Pack, the collection of applications recommended by Google for a new PC, includes an office suite: StarOffice, a proprietary software developed by Sun. In 2000 Sun released StarOffice\’s source code, which became…

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Pay for More Gmail Storage

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Google will start to use a model similar to Picasa Web\’s premium plans to let you buy more storage for different Google services, including Gmail. So for $20 a year, you\’ll get 6 GB that can be used to store photos in…

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Google Earth Easter Egg: Flight Simulator

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Apparently, the latest version of Google Earth has an easter egg: a flight simulator. It\’s not quite like Microsoft Flight Simulator, but it\’s a promising start.How to see this feature. Make sure you have Google Earth…

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Restrict Google Image Results to Faces, News

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Google Image Search has a new feature that lets you restrict the results to some general categories. For the moment, the only categories that are available seem to be faces and news-related images, but other categories…

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Users Report Gaining Access to Random Google Accounts

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There are many problems with Google\’s services lately. After Google Groups had some temporary glitches, some people report that Google switches them to random accounts.Jvy Loh writes on his blog about the incidents:”It…

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