Arcade Fire’s new video is done in HTML5 and is tightly integrated with Google Maps making for a unique customized video.
Turn an email into a snail-mail with a custom Google Maps envelope! Sorry, it’s only a concept but it’s brilliant nonetheless!
What’s better, posting your resume on Career Builder with ten hundred billion other people, or posting it creatively where everyone in the world finds out how cool you are on every tech blog in the industry? Creative win of the week. 14,163 views so far!
You thought Earth was cool? Catch this! Microsoft is finally developing some software that outright is jaw dropping. Their map system integrates with the world by mapping out 3d perspectives similar to google street view, however, instead of riding around on top of a car you can actually fly around. Not only that but they have dude’s with cameras mounted on backpacks that are imaging insides of buildings!
Google Liquid Galaxy is just awesome and has not practical use at this time other than BEING AWESOME!
Online and offline worlds collide. Get reviews from restaurants, etc. by scanning a code on the door of the establishment. Combined with this Facial Recognition I think Google might could go places in life. ;)
“Nate Heagy, a musician from Saskatoon, Canada, decided that the best way to promote his career was to get pictured on Google Street View. So he followed a Street View picture-taking car around his town until he could predict its path and get his image captured.”
Red Bull Energy Shot scavenger hunt facilitated by a Facebook app. Whether you found a shot or someone else beat you to it you’ll find a code that can be redeemed for something by hitting up this app. Simple concept but very engaging and exponentially enhanced because of the online/offline combo. Think of all the Facebook friends you may see out in that place they call “The real world” while you’re looking for these little shots that a Facebook app promised would be there! Good times!
