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.
[via GWB]
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Google Maps as platform for online games
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 changed: Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence.
With this version it will be possible to own any street in the world, build humble houses, crazy castles and scyscrapers to collect rent. Keep up to date for the launch of Monopoly City streets: http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com Sounds interesting. I’ll give it a try. Definitifely.
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Video and Maps: Home 2009 – Documentary showing HD aerial images of the earth
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 HOME and can also be seen in theaters.
The official Google LatLong blogged about this movie:
“To help get our heads around the watery part of our planet, we’ve collected a few visualizations of both issues facing the ocean and cutting edge science. Have a look at the problem of plastics in our oceans, find out about where currents might take your trash, the health of the world’s fisheries, and what the latest satellite data says about the state of the ocean.” See also our oceanography topic.
On the YouTube page there is also an interaction with Google Maps, where different places of the movie can be located on a map. The best thing of all it is free and in HD.
Detailed information about the documentary, narrowed by Glenn Close, can be looked up at IMDB.
Official YouTube statement (Yann Arthus-Bertrand):
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.
HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.[official homepage: http://www.home-2009.com ]
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“Intel Star” TV ad – The (real) image of an Engineer?
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 this video could be nerds are the modern day rock stars.
I hope some more clips will follow.
[via GeorgHolzer@Twitter]
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Playing James Bond with your GPS Device
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.
[via NYT]
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Is it Windows 7 or Linux?
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 this version (Linux) more intuitive to use than Windows Vista. Why then is the Linux market share so low and Microsoft still has such an dominant position on the market? I think people are afraid to switch and want to keep their habits. I will give Linux a try in the next couple of months (at least in a virtual machine), you too?
Actual Market shares for OS (Net Applications 02/2009):
- Windows: 88.42% (XP: 63.67%, Vista: 22.79%, 2000: 1.33%)
- MacOS: 9.61%
- Linux: 0.88%
Even the disaster about Windows Vista have not changed market shares considerable. In my opinion there are too many different distributions, which confuses the end user. In the mobile sector this Andriod is a promising candidate to challenge Windows Mobile.
[via derStandard, ZDNet Australia]
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GIS Day 2008 Song
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:
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The effects of Web 2.0 for TV series
One of the most seen videos on YouTube ever is “Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years“. With nearly 11.5 million views (Dez, 2008) this short clip directs attention and influeces the TV industry.
[via YouTube]
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Nokia Mapster’s Game
Nokia tries to promote their Nokia Maps with a geographical game. It a flash based game where you have to guess the location of different cities around the globe. At the end you can send them their high score and win some prices.
The game might be classified as addictive.http://www.themapsters.com/index.php
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Sony designs Subway Maps
For an advertisement of their Network Walkmans Sony traced the subway routes of different cities with their earphones.
There are maps available for the cities New York, Sydney and London, as far as I know. In my optinion its a good marketing gag, since listening to music during travelling with the underground is very popular.
In the picutre above you can see the subway lines of New York on their ad poster. As you can see now Geoinformation become an important field also in advertisement and marketing.
[via gizmodo]
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