360Cities – The World in VR

very cool: 5.000 VR-panorama-shots in more than 40 cities: 360cities.net …

(via Google Blogoscoped)

Google: Hot Trends, Timelines & Maps

these days, the recently launched Universal Search is the predominant topic when it comes to Google. that, however, shouldn’t keep you from trying out some of the other very recent additions the search-company search, ads & apps-company has made…
launched today, Google Hot Trends feels like an – almost – real-time-version of the popular Zeitgeist periodical [...]

MapLib: customized Google Maps

MapLib is a very nice mashup allowing to view any uploaded bitmap through Google Maps’ AJAX user-interface. customized maps support markers and can be embedded on any website. interestingly, Manfred Wuits (yumyum) demonstrated a very similar technique a month ago at BarCamp Vienna (check the video-feed of his demo).