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Google+ is the New Facebook -- Pass It On!

I have been exploring Google's new social network, Google+, for almost a month now, and it is fantastic!  It's still in beta but it already has about 25 million members.  

If you want to experience it yourself, please click on the following link for an invitation (I've never tried this before so I hope this works!)

 

https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3Dq0KF43JpBr0%3AaM-ILF2xqAY

 

Where On (Google) Earth...? Part II

This is amazing!  The level of detail is so clear on this Sydney image that you can see the tennis ball:

Where On (Google) Earth...?

Now where is this place? (pictured right)

Well, why not visit it on Google Maps yourself, zoom out a bit, until you discover it.  Google Maps now has a very few areas of the globe (downtown Las Vegas is one of them; Sydney, Australia is another), where you can zoom down to an amazing new level of close-up detail!  Here's further explanation and some more mind-bogglingly up-close shots. 

Geotagging works with Google's satellite images too....

It works with satellite images too....
Originally uploaded by Quiplash.

Here's a screenshot of a geoblogged flickr photo, placed EXACTLY within its proper geographic location within a satelitte photo.

Click the thumbnail (left) to see the full-size photo, or if you want to explore interactively, just click here.
Très cool.

It's official: I have mapped Winnipeg's first geotagged flickr picture.

Winnipeg's first geotagged flickr picture.
Originally uploaded by Quiplash.

This picture shows the nearest geotagged photos to my (so far) single photo of Winnipeg. It looks as though I am the first and (so far) only Winnipeg photo. But I am sure there will soon be more :-)

You can click here to checck what the situation is currently... use the zoom slider bar in the upper lefthand corner of the map, and the four directional arrow keys to move around. Click on a red pointer to see the associated photo.

Have fun :-)

My first geotagged flickr picture :-)

My first geotagged flickr picture :-)
Originally uploaded by Quiplash.

Using the greasemonkey javascript extensions to flickr photo pages and Google maps pages, viewed on the firefox browser, it is now possible to "tag" your flickr photos with the correct latitude and longitude locations, and display them on Google's new map feature.

More information here... complete with step-by-step instructions.

This is VERY cool :-)

GoogleGulp

This is priceless:

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

Google Scholar: One Standard User Interface.

We are one of a handful of libraries taking part in a beta-test, making our ezproxy server work with Google Scholar to provide seamless access to those journal articles to which we already have a licence agreement.

I've been kicking the tires on Google Scholar the past couple days, and I am impressed. In a way, Google Scholar provides what librarians have been working towards for years: one standard user interface across all of our databases.

I predict that Google Scholar, like most other projects Google throws its resources at, will be very, very successful.

Now, if we can only get ezproxy to work with CiteULike....

"Winnipeg Blogger"

Just found out that the top three results of a Google search on "winnipeg blogger" (with or without the quotes, it doesn't matter) are:

1. Jeremy
2. me
3. the Photography in Winnipeg LiveJournal community

Speak Not to the Blind of Rainbows

Essential, reading on the Libraries vs. Internet debate.
(From Library Dust, found via Jessamyn's blog librarian.net)