James Ng was going to pop the question to his fiancée while riding in a hot-air balloon.  His attempt to woo his true love came to a grinding halt when the engagement ring fell 500 feet, out of the balloon and into the woods below.
Ng, 26, had hidden the 1-carat diamond ring inside his camera [...]

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Google has taken the “unexplained phenomenon” campaign one step further today, with a crop circle-themed Google Doodle.
Yes, today’s Google logo consists of the word “Google” spelled out in crop circles with a tractor completing the letter “L”.
Last week, Google revealed a strange logo where the letter “o” in the logo was being beamed up by [...]

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Here’s one Google Monopoly that won’t have regulators buzzing.
Starting today, Hasbro is launching a massively multiplayer worldwide game of Monopoly online using the Google Maps service.
Players start out with $3 million of Monopoly money and can then digitally purchase real city blocks across the globe. Users will then be able to create buildings and start [...]

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Here’s an interesting idea.
Instead of just showing tweets on a map, you could take things to the next level and display the street that the tweets are from.
This is the idea that launched Stweet, a cool new mashup of Twitter and Google Street View. Stweet takes the coordinates posted by Twitter apps like TwitterFon [...]

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Despite Google’s repeated claims that Atlantis cannot be found on Google Earth or on Google Maps, we beg to differ.
It’s right there in the photo above – The Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas.
In fact, Google has confirmed that the marks seen in this post are actually “ship tracks.”
It’s quite hard to measure [...]

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Google has just turbocharged their “local maps” feature.
Instead of only showing the first ten results on the map, Google will show dozens of red circles, or possibly even hundreds.
Even THAT may not do the trick as the official Google announcement is entitled, “1,000 is the new 10.”
All of the red circles below are [...]

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Our hearts go out to all those affected by the terrible fires sweeping across Australia this weekend.
Google has put together a Flash map listing the latest information on current fire locations and their status from the Country Fire Authority (CFA). This map is being updated in real-time from the CFA website via an [...]

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Is it just me or is this whole “information age” thing getting way out of hand?  Google Trends is already keeping track of what the world is searching for and we broadcast every little detail of our lives though Twitter (”washing my dog” – hey, that’s great, thanks for sharing!).
At times, I seriously [...]

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Google has added a new feature to Gmail that will make your life a little easier.
The new feature, just added today, adds a “move to” menu item, allowing users to both add a “label” to e-mails and archive them at the same time.
While Gmail still doesn’t have folders, or a drag and drop [...]

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It looks as though Google may have been in a bit of a rush when completing some of their local sweeps for Google Street View.
It appears that a Google Street View vehicle flattened a deer near Rush, New York.  The photos were subsequently (and accidentally) added to Google Maps.
The photos in question clearly [...]

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