All posts tagged Google
Google Maps: Play Your World
Google is rolling out pedestrian-level indoor mapping data for locations such as malls, airports, museums and educational institutions across the US. To promote said mapping they’ve produced this charming Google+ app/game.
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Rome – 3 Dreams of Black
Remember Arcade Fire’s interactive video for The Wilderness Downtown? Guess what, Google Creative Lab made a follow-up! Again, it’s a beautiful combo of creative and tech skills.
Experience it for yourself (best with Chrome): Rome – 3 Dreams of Black →
#GTA IV Street View
Now you can cruise the streets of Grand Theft Auto IV from your web browser, thanks to the efforts of GTA’s most dedicated fans. They combined some 80.000 screenshots into a Google Street View version of GTA IV’s Liberty City!
All roads are covered, except for a few on/off-ramps that weren’t very interesting. There’s around 3,000 separate panoramas which were stitched together from almost 80,000 in-game screenshots (captured with a script) and the final set of tiles consist of over a million images. – GTA4.net
Google Demo Slam
Google Demo Slam is a very smart and entertaining platform where users can upload a homemade creative demo for a Google service. Using a one on one battle/voting mechanic, the users will decide which demo is the best.
Teach Your Parents Tech
It’s christmas time. The time of santa, snow, food, fun and family. But onfortunately also the time for your family to ask you all kinds of tech-questions, that distract from Christmas happiness. Sounds familiar?
Some guys at Google decided to solve this once and for all. They created Teach Parents Tech, a website providing you with useful video-tutorials, as well as a nice and smooth way to send them to your not so tech-savvy parents. Nice!
Google Fashion Show
I like the idea of this commercial by Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo for Google:
Weird Google StreetView Findings
Canadian based artist Jon Rafman decided to dedicate a blog to it. And here’s the link: CLICK-9eyes-CLICK!
Pizza
Very, very weird video promoting Google’s Local Search.
