Pin ItemailprintHere’s a disturbing little mashup for you to try out. The folks over at advertising agency Pool Worldwide have mixed together Google Street View and a fake assault rifle to create “Google Shoot View”. You can now travel around the world firing off rounds in a first-person-style shooter, as if the world were your [...]
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You know, you’ve got to be careful when parading around naked these days, especially if you happen to be outside your house just as the Google Street View car comes by. Imagine our surprise when a Blippitt reader emailed us and told us to Google the address 1760 NW 66th Street, Miami, Florida and then [...]
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Are you convinced that your privacy is a thing of the past? In a world of near-constant surveillance, how is one supposed to lie low and stay under the radar? Now, you can avoid the omnipresent eye of Google’s Street View camera and Facebook tags with the new “Pixelhead” mask. Martin Backes has designed this [...]
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Every once in a while, as Google continues on its mission to map the earth for all of mankind, the Google Street View car picks up something that makes everyone take notice. Sometimes, it’s a girl pretending to be dead, sometimes it’s a tell-tale crack in a building that has collapsed, sometimes a crime gets [...]
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Neighbors were concerned when it appeared that the Google Street View car had captured the body of a dead girl lying in the street in England. Luckily, it turned out to be just a young girl playing a joke on her friend. Azura Beebeejaun, now 10, says, “I didn’t know anything about the Google Street [...]
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OK, so maybe pulling off of the road and getting out of your car might be a little dangerous. Still, when an opportunity like this comes along, you just have to risk it.
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The level of detail in Google Street View these days is absolutely amazing. You can even see a guy point a gun at a little boy. Incoming search terms:google maps failgoogle maps failsgoogle map failsgoogle map failgoogle fail
Just when we thought Google couldn’t be any nosier, along comes the “spy cycle”. The Google Tricycle has debuted in Europe, with the ability to go off-road. The search giant has hired two cyclists to pedal through Paris gardens and other pedestrian zones on the cycles in order to take thousands upon thousands of pictures. [...]
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The “Vesper Bar & Lounge,” a four story building in Brooklyn, New York, collapsed today just before 2pm ET. There were luckily no casualties and just four minor injuries. The establishment was closed at the time of the collapse. Images of the collapse were instantly posted to photo-sharing sites (see here and here). Here’s where [...]
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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 [...]
It’s amazing what you can find online when you’re not even looking for it. Google seems to run into this quite often. It seems that, in addition to killing deer, Google captures lots of other interesting things on camera when the Google Street View car rides into town. Makes you wonder why that little town [...]
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Angry mob 1, Google Street View car 0. A mob of angry Buckinghamshire residents in England blocked a Google Street View car from photographing their homes and neighborhood. It would seem that, following a string of nasty robberies in the neighborhood, the residents there had been on the lookout for any suspicious vehicles. A Google [...]
