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Google hits the streets

Published on May 29, 2007 in Geo, Related sites, Social Software, Technology and Visualization. 0 Comments

Here are a couple of adjacent images from Google’s new ‘Street View’ in GoogleMaps.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Light at the End of the Tunnel

As of this writing, you can walk the streets of New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami–maybe more. The automated stitching of panoramas from different days and times makes for some high-tech surrealist photography. Continuing the twisted translation of reality into the Googleverse…. Just wait until these are fed by realtime surveillance/web cameras and the most-recent geotagged Flickr photos.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Published on February 9, 2007 in Related sites, Research, Social Software, Society and Technology. 0 Comments

From Professor Mike Wesch at Kansas State University: a four-and-a-half minute video that brilliantly and succinctly summarizes the evolution of the Web to date and points the direction for its further growth.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

To echo Roy Pea, who sent me the link, this is perhaps the best example of using a YouTube video to educate that I’ve ever seen. The video is a work-in-progress and you can give your feedback directly to the creators at their blog.

Collective Decision Making at Los Alamos Lab

Published on November 29, 2006 in Collective Intelligence, Personal, Related sites and Research. 0 Comments

My collaborators at Los Alamos National Lab, Marko Rodriguez and Jennifer Watkins, just launched a web presence for the Collective Decision Making Systems project, an umbrella for their research on prediction markets, voting systems, and related topics (some of which I’ve helped out on). Keep an eye on these two — they mix technical brilliance with imagination, and that’s a potent combination.

CDMS