Google gave out notebooks like the one above at the Open Source Developers’ Conference in Taiwan that was held this weekend. You can see different images (the Earth zooming in and out, and Googleplex) by tilting the notebook at different angles. These things never get old - at least for me. :)
[video by icools, used under a CC-license]
You probably recognize the “Alien Family” from earlier Google logos.
It’s better than some Hollywood productions I must say. Definitely looking forward to more of these. :)
[via Google Maps Mania]
The unfortunate Jeff got 42% of his brain indexed by the Google Intruder(v2) 007.
[video by thevacationeers; via Google Blogoscoped]
A while ago the Gmail team asked you to tell your story of Gmail in the form of video, and 80 video responses later, the Gmail team made a compilation of those videos from users glorifying Gmail (only with videos telling what the Google people want to hear, and what they want you to hear).
Now we just need the another side of the story, the “Gmail sucks!” ones. (And then someone will be like, “Leave Gmail Alone!“)
You are not supposed to see this video until the December 24, but I am going to let you have some fun (a bit boring I have to say and yeah, I watched the whole thing) tracking Santa on Google Earth with NORAD before it start! :) Of course, I don’t want to be the person to spoil your Christmas fun, so don’t click the play button if you want to wait till the 24th and watch that on Google Maps/Earth. [Watch the video on Googlified]
Google posted two (almost identical) videos on YouTube to promote iGoogle. One targets Hong Kong’s audiences and the other one targets Taiwan’s. The videos demonstrate some of the basic features on iGoogle, such as adding new gadgets, moving them around, and adding themes to the page. The videos ended with a “Make your own iGoogle home page now!” message.
I somehow find the cartoon figure (”Big brother”?) in the video a bit creepy… :-/
[via GSeeker]
Google asked some Australian school students “what Australia means to them and explain their drawings for ‘Doodle 4 Google My Australia.’”
You can now vote on the Doodle 4 Google My Australia and the UK version of the contest, “My Future“. I especially like those in the 8-11 years old and 11-14 years old groups from “Doodle for Google My Future”. They are just extraordinary.
“Your search produces no results.” - brought to you by NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
[thanks Tom]
I was like, “Wow.” Seriously.
On a related note, Google Earth updated their imagery for several countries.
… You can break the Internet. - by The IT Crowd: Smoke & Mirrors.
I am not a big fan of social networking sites but this video is pretty cool explaining what they are and their benefits (for the downsides, check out this Wikipedia entry). Brought to you by the CommonCraft crew.
[via Kevin O’Keefe]
Now Google have this data, I’m wondering what the next stage is - where do they go from here? My prediction is they’ll begin stitching the images together to form ‘videos’ of the driving route route it suggests you. To prototype it, I took 40 frames manually and joined them into a small flicker book animation. The potential is impressive isn’t it!
It’s really got me thinking where this mapping/locational technology is going. I have a number of ideas here how this could be made into live feeds and adapted for rescue work.
This video reminds me these two Google Maps mashups, very impressive. Robin’s idea is definitely brilliant, and Google should consider implementing the idea into Google Maps.
How about buying you some M&M’s, ______ (put your favorite Googler’s name here)? :)
[thanks Robin! :)]
