To put things in perspective, shown data consists of the lead stories for each day of November 2004. New York was mentioned numerous times, and there was a story on Florida, hence the stretched area over US. Northern Europe was a source of several mentions also, hence the blip. Middle East was a heavy contributor and there were a couple of stories about Palestine, Sudan and Kenya, hence the stretched component over eastern Africa.

very nice. this has lots of potential

Google Maps Sydney Flyover

We had some very intense days of planning before finally deciding that Michael and Jodie would fly down from Brisbane to meet Mike and together we would make a giant eye to look back up at the plane and show the world that Swift City ‘has its eye on the world’. Ok, so that last bit is a bit corny.

stupid spammers

Slander local business

This kind of slander could destroy a small business, like my auto mechanic. It should be criminal. Insider pages knowing paid people to create fraudulent reviews and given the statistics of the reviews they made no effort manage the problem. I presume it would be a piece of cake for some lawyer to find 1000 businesses slandered like my auto mechanic has been and bring suit against the various parties in this example. Something more severe than letting the market punish them is appropriate.
This is the dark side of social networking (talent scrapping) sites. Get the talent to commit the crimes you need committed. The social networking site owner as troll. In the worst case the business is looking for a way to force, blackmail the local businesses into participating at the site. Angie’s List has been accused of that.

oy. no user-generated accuracy, in this case

Address Onebox

we now have a maps onebox for us addresses