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Wow, if you want to see some of the possibilities of what you can do with Google Earth, a video game, a table, a whole lot of genius and creativity, check out this video. 4 people, Edward Tse, Chia Shen, Saul Greenberg, Clifon Forlines collaborated to create this complete work of awesome. Check it out.

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Usually my posts are more about facts and details about a thing, but I really just wanted to take this opportunity to proclaim my love for Google Earth!

I think Google Earth is one of the coolest inventions EVER. The other day I was playing with it, with a friend of mine. We input his address and mine and watched as we flew across town checking out my house and his and everything in between. Then we flew across the Grand Canyon, just for fun. I’ve always loved maps and globes, but there’s just never been this sort of interactivity with maps and globes before.

In Forbes.com news Google Earth has recently announced its working with British Airways on a marketing campaign. British Airways was looking for a way to improve their own website and marketing and this is how it’s going to work:

Visitors to the BA website will now be able to use Google Earth technology to “not only book their flights, but find nearby hotels and car rentals on a 3D map. Once users have zoomed in on their chosen locale, the Google service provides a link through which they can make a booking back on the British Airways site.”

Here’s some exciting news! According to ZDNet, Google purchased three new domains this Monday: googleimagetagger.com, .net and .org. What does this mean exactly? Well, according to ZD Net’s Garett Rogers’s research it goes like this: He searched “image tagger” online and found a piece of software from Earthmate.com that takes information recorded from a GPS receiver and compares it with the timestamp on pictures to display where images were taken on a map. So In theory this could be something that Google could do with Google Earth/Maps, a GPS receiver and Picasa? That would be completely amazing. The other possibility, which was the first thing I thought of when I saw those domain names, is just a more Flickr-like, social networking site-esque way to tag your photos or someone else’s. I guess we shall soon see…

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