Thursday, October 12, 2006

Google Maps for Treo

Google Maps is now available in a special mobile version for the Palm Treo. While mobile versions of Maps have been around (including a – sigh – unusable one for my MDA Vario with Windows Mobile 5.0), Google says this one “is the fastest, slickest version yet, with draggable maps and translucent pop-up balloons that don’t hide the map.” Anyone with a Treo around who can share some first impressions?

[Image by Google.]

Google Maps for Treo by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (21)

Time Suggests New Google Products...

Evan Eisenberg of TIME Magazine is suggesting a couple of new services [PDF] Google might want to develop. The list includes:

• Ex Search - “Find out if they’re seeing anyone”
• Gray Matters - “Map the death of your brain cells in real time”
• Schadenfreude Alerts - “Get e-mail updates on bad things that happen to your obnoxious friends”
• Oogle - “Stare for hours without seeming rude”
• Garble - “Translate ordinary speech into legalese, adspeak, Bushspeak and dozens more”
• Walkle - “Use your mobile browser in real time to decide which foot to move next”

[Thanks Haochi, who made this his image of the day.]

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Google Music Videos?

Google says their partnership with Sony and Warner now allows them to “bring thousands of music videos to Google Video via free, ad-supported on-demand streams.” I demanded a video, and all I get back is “The video is currently not available. Please try again later.” Does it work in the US?

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Google for Educators Site

Google presents a special microsite aimed to tell teachers how to use the different Google products. There’s also a newsletter, as well as the opportunity to become a “Google Certified Teacher”...

The discussion started in the forum.

[Thanks DPic!]

Google for Educators Site by Philipp Lenssen

Google in Get Fuzzy Cartoon

Google is featured in Get Fuzzy. [Thanks Peter Krismer.]

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Blogspot Was Down

Blogger.com and Blogspot.com were down & out earlier today according to different reports. (Outage at Blogspot.com, where many to most Blogger blogs are hosted – including the official Google blog – means that millions of pages will be unreachable.) The Israel tech blog Nana.co.il claims this is the work of hackers – it wouldn’t have been the first time this week – but I don’t know if that’s the case.

[Thanks Hermon and Tony Ruscoe.]

Update: Google says, “Blogger and Blogspot was down between 5:30 and 7:30 PST this morning due to a network malfunction.” [Thanks TomHTML!]

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