Google Earth

I don’t think there is an adult alive today that doesn’t remember at least one iconic photograph that appeared on the cover of Time’s LIFE magazine. Those photographs from as early as the 1750’s to now have chronicled our world and our place on it. Well word comes from Mashable’s Adam Ostrow that Google has begun adding the roughly 10 million images from the LIFE library to Google’s Image archives. At this point they have managed to get 2 million images stored into the archives and to celebrate they have launched a special page for the growing collection. As well... [Tags: google, google images, life photographs]

360 degree panoramas in Google Earth — This week, we've started to feature another layer in the Google Earth Gallery, showing several thousand panoramic views provided by 360cities.net. This layer contains exciting 360 degree panoramas from a variety of great photographs taken all over the world!Do you want to explore some beautiful spots in Central Park, or be impressed by the beautifully illuminated Kremlin at night as seen from the Red Square in Moscow?These amazing panoramas from 360cities.net will provide you another way to browse user contributed pictures and information in addition to our Panoramio and Wikipedia layers. Are you also an enthusiast taking panoramic views? It's... [Tags: balloons, central park, degree panoramas, earth gallery, engineering manager]

Google to close 3D virtual space Lively — Google is to shut its 3D virtual world Google Lively less than 6 months after launching it. Lively launched with a bang back in July with talk that it could become a Second Life killer. However limited support, poor uptake not helped by only being available to Windows users, and a general disinterest in the product has seen some speculating about its future for a while. According to a post on the Google Blog, Google refers to Lively as a kind of experimentation, but says that “not every bet is going to pay off.” That’s why, despite all the virtual... [Tags: google, virtual world]

Announcing SketchUp 7 — It's my pleasure to announce the launch of Google SketchUp 7. If you've been putting off getting familiar with Google Earth's 3D modeling "other half", now's the time to do something about it. After all, nothing makes a nicer holiday gift for your spouse than a 3D model of your dwelling or dream dwelling. Well, almost nothing.So what's new in SketchUp 7? Lots of stuff, but here are some of the highlights I think you'll find most interesting (take a look at the SketchUp website for a complete rundown).Some of the improvements we made to SketchUp 7 are especially useful for beginners. For example:Edges now... [Tags: 3d model, collaboration, crops, dwelling, facade]

Where is Google voice-powered search? — Reporters were put into a frenzy this week when Google announced it was set to launch version two of its mobile search application for the iPhone which included the addition of voice-powered search, allowing you skip the keyboard altogether. But now the question is, where is it? My colleague Josh Lowensohn reported on the application on Thursday, and duly noted on Friday afternoon that it still wasn't available in Apple's App Store. But as of Saturday afternoon, the application was still MIA. A search on the App Store returned only the older version of the Google Mobile App. According... [Tags: apple, caveat, ceo, colleague, free application]

Allyson Kapin has a post on the Huffington Post called Cracking the Boys Club  that shares her top 10 women pioneers of Web 2.0.  I'm honored to be on the list along with some awesome women. Gina Bianchini, CEO and Founder of Ning Mary Hodder, Founder of Dabble.com and VP of Product Development, Apisphere Tara Hunt, Co-Founder Citizen Agency and Citizen Space Sandy Jen, Co-Founder of Meeboo Lynne D. Johnson, Director of Social Media, Fast Company Charlene Li, Consultant and Blogger Susan Mernit, Co-Founder, People's Software Rebecca Moore, Director of Outreach, Google Earth Rashmi Sinha, Co-Founder SlideShare I was... [Tags: 10 women, boys club, ceo, charlene, citizen]

When in Rome...teach! — Yesterday, we introduced the new Ancient Rome 3D layer in Google Earth, a groundbreaking collection of 6,700 3D buildings modeled as leading scholars determined they stood in the year 320 A.D. While we hope that teachers are already pretty excited to incorporate Ancient Rome 3D into their lessons, we wanted to go a step further and issue an open challenge to educators to harness the power of this new tool in the classroom. Today, we're proud to announce the launch of the inaugural Google lesson plan contest for K-12 educators in the US, the Ancient Rome in 3D Curriculum Competition. Whether you teach art history to... [Tags: 3d models, ancient rome, arch of constantine, architectural study, earth education]

India draws up own Google Earth plan — Space programme spin-off India is planning to create its own version of Google Earth on the back of its successful moon mission.…... [Tags: earth plan, google, google earth, india, moon mission]

YouTube has announced the launch of a monetization program for embedded videos at the NewTeeVee Conference. Details are a little sketchy but from reports on NewTeeVee and ReadWriteWeb, the new program allows content creators to add Adsense style ads to embeds, so they can earn money where ever the video is displayed. What’s not clear is whether this will be made available to anyone who uploads video at YouTube, or just members of the YouTube Partners program, the exclusive advertising club for premium content providers that already facilitates advertising on YouTube itself. The other negative (again though, we can’t be... [Tags: advertising club, advertising revenue, ancient rome, bloggers, cashes]

Exploring Old Rome Without Air (or Time) Travel — Google Earth has embraced a frontier dating back 17 centuries: ancient Rome under Constantine the Great.... [Tags: ancient rome, centuries, constantine, frontier, google]

Google Earth brings ancient Rome to life - in 3D — Google Earth remains one of the most impressive 3D applications available today. A new highlight for Earth is a layer visualizes ancient Rome as it is believed to have looked like in 320 A.D. It includes buildings that have withstood test of time, like the famous Coliseum, in addition to objects that no longer exist, as well as roads and terrain. Users can experience a breathtaking Rome in 360 degrees, fly though streets and even see the detailed interior of some buildings.... [Tags: ancient rome, coliseum, fly, google, google earth]

Google Earth's virtual Roman holiday — Google Earth is extending its satellite perspective to give virtual time-traveling tourists a view of what the city of Rome looked like nearly two millennia ago.... [Tags: city of rome, google, google earth, roman holiday, satellite perspective]

Google Earth's virtual Roman holiday — Google Earth's new layer of ancient Rome offers virtual tourists the chance to explore a city long gone.(Credit: Google.com) Google Earth is extending its satellite perspective to paint a picture of what the ancient city of Rome looked like nearly two millennia ago. While satellites weren't around to give us a bird's eye view of the city in 320 A.D., Google's "Ancient Rome 3-D" offers a 3D simulation of the ancient city at the height of its power. The new layer for the tool allows virtual time-traveling tourists to fly around the city and zoom in to explore ancient... [Tags: 3d simulation, ancient structures, buildings of ancient rome, circus maximus, city of rome]

Google Earth users can now see ancient Rome — Its creator has called it a "virtual time machine" - a digital reconstruction of ancient Rome that yesterday became available to internet users around the world. Users of Google Earth can now see the city, down to the last aqueduct and arena, as it looked at noon on April 1 AD 320. They can navigate through the Forum, past the platform or rostra from which Cicero once declaimed, admire the statues, read the inscriptions, pry into palaces, and then slip round to the Colosseum or whisk over to the Circus Maximus where the ancient Romans held their chariot races.There, the... [Tags: ancient romans, ancient rome, bernard frischer, chariot races, circus maximus]

Did they have flu epidemics in the Roman Empire? — Two pieces of news from the Google front:As reported by O'Reilly Radar, the Inquisitr, and Destination CRM Blog, it is possible to harness the search information within Google to track regional flu outbreaks. Face it, if a bunch of people in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area start searching for "flu," perhaps something is up. I'll grant that the system can be gamed or otherwise malfunction - it will always seem like there's a flu epidemic in Milan - but it's still a good use of technology.As reported by Computeractive and ReadWriteWeb, Google Earth now features a historical view of Rome circa... [Tags: computeractive, destination crm, flu, flu epidemic, flu epidemics]

Romanes Eunt Domus: Ancient Rome Comes to Google Earth — For a lot of students, the history of ancient Rome is not exactly a gripping subject. Google, together with the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) is trying to change this. Starting today, Google Earth will feature a new layer, 'Ancient Rome 3D,' which is based on the IATH's 'Rome Reborn' model and which displays a 3D model of the city as it existed in 320 AD. Sponsor Overall, the Rome Reborn project recreated detailed models of over 6,700 buildings and monuments in the city, including some, like the Coliseum, which also feature highly detailed... [Tags: 3d maps, 3d model, advanced technology, ancient cities, coliseum]

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Google Opens Interactive Ancient Rome 3D Experience — Google Earth has rolled out a neat new feature that lets you explore Ancient Rome in 3D. The aptly named Ancient Rome 3D, announced this morning, lets you zoom around the city as it stood in 320 AD. You can get inside numerous ancient structures such as the Colosseum to see up-close detail of their interiors, and pop-up bubbles give you historical insight into what you’re viewing. In all, Ancient Rome 3D has 6,700 detailed buildings. “Users can visit the Roman Forum, stand in the centre of the Colosseum, trace the footsteps of the gladiators in the Ludus Magnus, stand... [Tags: 3d experience, ancient rome, ancient structures, arch of constantine, basilica julia]

Google has just announced a new layer for its Google Earth application: Ancient Rome 3D. The layer allows users to move through a virtual rendering of Ancient Rome as it looked in 320 AD, with information for locations of historical significance and full interiors of some buildings. Google is also sponsoring a Rome Curriculum Competition for educators to encourage use of the tools Google has available in classroom learning. I only wish this had been around when I was struggling my way through "History of Italy" in college.... [Tags: ancient rome, earth application, google, google earth, history of italy]