The combination between Google Maps and YouTube allows you to make a virtual travel from Moscow to Vladivostok. The video is georeferenced and synchronized with the map. This feature allows you to navigate on the map an see the corresponding section in the video.
Original text to the application:
The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route. Let’s go!
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott
… this question asks Motorola and Verizon in their newest Droid marketing campaign. As Droid spots before it is a site blow against Apples iPhone and their AT&T service with following sogan:
Its not a princess, its a robot. A phone that trades hair-do for can-do. In a world of doesnt. Droid Does. http://droiddoes.com
Can anyone tell a non-native English speaking guy what “Racehorse duct-taped to a Scud missile fast” means?
Droid Marketing:
It was estimated that 250,000 Motorola Droid phones were sold in the United States, during the phone’s first week in stores. That statement’s estimation was questioned later , as some said Verizon paid for this headline to make the claim to help sell the Droid. Although the number of phones sold wasn’t confirmed , it was confirmed that , 20,000 phones have been returned because of defaulting features and technical issues.
Verizon explicitly promoted the Droid as an AppleiPhone-alternative. Launched on October 17, 2009 TV spots and an associated website made “entertainingly combative” claims listing features lacking on the iPhone, e.g. “iDon’t multitask,” only mentioning the name of the Droid in the final frame, reading “Droid Does.” At the official launch event on October 28, 2009 Verizon’s Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton described the campaign as a spoof of Apple’s iPhone ads, intended to “wake up the market.”
The American launch included an interactive experience called “Droid Does Times Square“ that allows people to control the Nasdaq and Reuters electronic billboards in Times Square by using voice commands (searching by voice is a primary Android feature). The experience is available in Times Square or via the Droid Does Web site.
The November 6, 2009 release date of the Droid came just under a month after Verizon and Google announced that they had entered into an agreement to jointly develop wireless devices based on the Android mobile platform. Verizon said at the time that it planned to have two Android-based handsets on the market by year-end with more to come in 2010. The other handset is the HTC Droid Eris, a modification to the HTC Hero, seen in shots of Google CEO Eric Schmidt holding one in a Verizon/Google press conference.
American exclusive software for the Droid includes Google Maps Navigation, an Amazon MP3 Store applet, and Verizon Wireless Visual Voice Mail management. [source Wikipedia]
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.
Recently the first Google Earth Video was published on Youtube. Unfortunately it in Italian. The release of version 5 is expected soon. One of the main new features will be Google Ocean.
You can also watch it in HD.
As you can see in the image there is a new improved timeline to visualize geographical changes over time. The video also shows a function to record a movie sequence, which can be replayed.
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:
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.
I know, I writing a lot about Google, and sometimes it seems like advertisment for them. But Google Maps such a smart web app and recently StreetView is available in Japan and Australia. This funny video shows how to use streetview.
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
