Category: Technology

Google have launched the Google Earth API.

Install the plugin here.

The whole world in your hands, in a browser.

In China, and just completed. Gizmodo has some photos. It’s, erm, huge.

After Cork, Carlow, Navan, Galway and Waterford were added in March, it appears Dublin has now been added for high res aerial photography on Microsoft’s Live Maps.

Here is the Custom House in Dublin: (Looking North)

The Spire on O’Connell Street: (Looking East)

And of course: Gangster Central (Looking East)

I wonder what Dubs like Twenty Major and The Chancer will be zooming in on?? Sorrento Terrace? Pat Kenny’s House?

No 10 have opened a Flickr account. Now how long before the Taoiseach does the same? *snigger*

https://www.flickr.com/photos/downingstreet

They are also twittering.

So sayeth the rumours.

I will hold off even thinking of a purchase until I see the 3G iPhone.

Via Tom comes news that Cork has made it onto earth.live.com bird’s eye view photos. It’s very impressive.

Given certain buildings on the map, and the stage at which they are built, the photos are very recent.

It’s only appropriate that Cork is on there before Dublin. But don’t worry jackeens, Dublin will be on it soon.

Here, for example, is my place of work:

For the geeks: Yes that’s Firefox 3 Beta 4 I’m running. Yes my Delicious plugin works fine, after disabling Firefox’s security settings. Jim Fallows helped out with that.

Have fun looking at more of Cork over at Live Maps.

El Reg story.

As I expected, someone has come clean as the faker of Barry Egan’s profile. “Egan” added me as a friend, but I never replied to the request. Putting “natch” after one of the profile items was the clincher for me.

It seems it was a very successful experiment in adding people as friends who may know a famous person – and then reverse engineering friend requests. Many of the other profiles I came across also appear to be fake.

That’s one of the rumoured names for Apple’s upcoming laptop. We shall have to see.

MacRumours has some photos of the impending event.

Yup…thar she be.