Category Archives: News

Via the Google Earth Blog. Seeing this movie is on my ToDon’t list, but this is still too cool. Just hit the Drive the Van button and off you go (provided you’re on Windows or Mac with the Google Earth … Continue reading →

Beaver dam that is. Via Slashdot, a group of beaver families in Alberta, Canada created a dam so large it’s visible from space. (It’s the top-of-a-heart shape.) The dam is 2,790 feet in length and took several beaver families an … Continue reading →

First up in this month’s news roundup is the addition of Google Earth (or the Google Earth plugin to be precise) to Google Maps. I’m surprised it took this long to integrate the two, but cool beans nonetheless. Now they … Continue reading →

CNET has an interesting piece based on some Forrester research. It’s a brief article so I won’t rehash the whole thing here, but the conclusion is that as developer shops turn over and younger developers move in .NET and Java … Continue reading →

Google has been on a anti-censorship tear since getting highly pissed at China over an alleged hacking incident. The latest salvo is a map showing the details of government requests for either data takedowns or for information about users. As … Continue reading →