Monitoring Water Points with Google Maps
Fri, 25 May 2012 22:30:12 +0000

Water for People is a Google Maps reporting system used to monitor and record data from tens of thousands of water points around the world. Using smartphones community members, partners [...] Related posts:

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The fight against scam ads—by the numbers
Fri, 25 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000

This is the second in a series of posts that will provide greater transparency about how we make our ads safer by detecting and removing scam ads. -Ed. Last month, [...] Related posts:

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Friday Fun with Google Maps
Fri, 25 May 2012 06:45:00 +0000

Street View Funny created this compilation video of over 850 funny Google Street Views posted on the site over the last few years. Google has created a nice Street View [...] Related posts:

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Transparency for copyright removals in search
Thu, 24 May 2012 19:07:00 +0000

We believe that openness is crucial for the future of the Internet. When something gets in the way of the free flow of information, we believe there should be transparency [...] Related posts:

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Gmail now available in Welsh and Latin American Spanish
Thu, 24 May 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Posted by Chris Yang, Product Manager, Translator Toolkit Languages can provide identity, pride, a sense of belonging and spiritual guidance to communities. We hope that by making Gmail available in [...] Related posts:

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BioFuel Resources on Google Maps
Thu, 24 May 2012 18:36:00 +0000

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created a BioFuels Atlas using the Google Maps API. The map shows the locations of biomass resources in the U.S.. Using the map [...] Related posts:

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Google+ for Android: polish and performance
Thu, 24 May 2012 13:24:00 +0000

We continue to work toward a simpler, more beautiful Google, and today we’re accelerating these efforts with a new Google+ app for Android phones. The update includes lots of highly-requested [...] Related posts:

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Telling Stories with Google Maps
Thu, 24 May 2012 12:45:00 +0000

Meograph is an interesting new narrative tool for telling stories with the Google Earth browser plug-in and Google Maps.  The application is currently in beta testing (you can apply for [...] Related posts:

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The Street Views of San Francisco
Thu, 24 May 2012 09:27:00 +0000

The Streets of the Invisibles is an experimental film that uses sound from the 1970′s TV series the Streets of San Francisco with images taken from Google Maps, Google Street [...] Related posts:

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Yahoo Axis vuol cambiare il modo di cercare sul Web
Thu, 24 May 2012 07:30:09 +0000

Yahoo ha reso disponibile un plugin per i principali browser e un’app per iOS che offre una nuova esperienza di ricerca sul Web. Il nuovo prodotto si chiama Axis ed [...] Related posts:

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