Category Archives: Fun

GPS Dating: Proximity and IM are the new Icebreakers

Posted on August 7, 2010 by joesonic

John D. Sutter, CNN has recently written an interesting article with the topic: With new GPS dating apps, it’s love the one you’re near Some citations here:

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Tourist Movements Map

Posted on June 19, 2010 by joesonic

You’ve picked a city for your upcoming vacation; Flickr user Eric Fischer’s Locals and Tourists image set of cities across the globe details exactly where tourists like to hang out around town—so you can avoid them. Blue pictures are by … Continue reading →

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Graphic Design in Google Maps Roadmap Style

Posted on March 16, 2010 by joesonic

Christoph Niemann is a New Yorker graphic designer. One of his collections includes illustrations in Google Maps roadmap style and is called “My Way“.  View some of his illustrations:

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How Japan understands Google StreetView :-)

Posted on September 7, 2009 by joesonic

With following video Google explains Japanese users how StreetView works. This advertising video focuses on the fact that Google blurrs out faces and car plates. Obviously Google uses a different marketing campain in East Asia. This video was embedded using … Continue reading →

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Google Maps as platform for online games

Posted on September 5, 2009 by joesonic

Monopoly City Street is a worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps as the game board. It will start on the 9th september and will be the biggest live game of monopoly in history. The goal to the classic Monopoly has not … Continue reading →

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Video and Maps: Home 2009 – Documentary showing HD aerial images of the earth

Posted on June 8, 2009 by joesonic

Some time ago I have posted about a site I like, called Earth from above. Today on the first UN-recognized World Oceans Day the author of this site has published a documentary movie about the earth on YouTube. The movie is called … Continue reading →

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“Intel Star” TV ad – The (real) image of an Engineer?

Posted on May 7, 2009 by joesonic

Intel has started a new ad campaign called “Sponsors of Tomorrow”. In this campaign they try to focus on their engineers rather than their products. One of their first video is really well produced and funny. The overall message of … Continue reading →

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Playing James Bond with your GPS Device

Posted on April 26, 2009 by joesonic

Spys often track their enemies. Now spy tracking becomes affordable for everyone. Watch the following video from David Pouge, who explains the Zoombak Personal Locator. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video [via NYT]

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Is it Windows 7 or Linux?

Posted on March 9, 2009 by joesonic

Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4? ZDNet Australia asks this question to people on the streets. They say: What do your think about the new Windows version. In Fact they showed Linux and KDE 4. But most people perceive … Continue reading →

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GIS Day 2008 Song

Posted on December 9, 2008 by joesonic

Maybe you can rember the G-I-Yes! song. This song was released on the GIS day 2007. Also this year there is a GIS day song is called: Map Of The World As We Know It: You need to a flashplayer … Continue reading →

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