Google's big announcement due on Wednesday. Google is due to make an announcement on Wednesday of a new service focusing on presence and communication. The word on the internets is that it will be a chat and IM client. Google already has a chat client in the picture sharing app,
Hello, which is available in both standalone install and as part of
Picasa. Possible screenshot of the app is
here, with additional coverage at
BigBlueBall and
Neowin. The prevalent consensus seems to be that it will be (or be based on )
Jabber, (
PDF) with the core innovation being
the use of XMPP.
posted by rzklkng
on Aug 23, 2005 -
122 comments
Google Earth: Zero Hour +1 If Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith was responsible for a productivity loss of $600 million (for people playing hooky), then the release of Google Earth
has to be responsible for at least $100m. So the next question is...what's next? When you think about all the Google Maps hacks, from
craigslist, to GasBuddy (offline),
Chicago Crimestats and
Transit Maps,
London Traffic Cams,
various sight seeing sites,
NYC Subway Stops, plus
integration with BlogWise,
Terraserver,
Host-IP (broken?),
Yahoo Traffic, and the
US Census, you might wonder what else could be integrated into gEarth?
Things I'm hoping for? How about integrating historical markers, daytrip resources,
factory tours,
social demographics (like Nationmaster), politics (
fundraising,
election results, registration,
polling place location,
election irregularities), mapped to do lists, real-time weather and traffic, things that aren't there anymore, custom
atlas creation, IMDB movie location shoots,
tighter integration with topographical maps,
WiFi access Points, a
News Attention Index,
shipwrecks,
Job Searches, and tighter integration with the
USGS.
As shown in the gEarth interface (left hand side, first one in "Layers"), their
online community is already working on using, improving, and customizing gEarth's new features, including
some updates (Caution, requires the integration of *.kml file, *.eta, or *.kmz files.)
posted by rzklkng
on Jun 29, 2005 -
21 comments
