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By Nick Denton

Comment by Nice Beaver: The picture was snapped just early enough to suck. It's just like when that girl's spandex shirt got pulled up... 1 Responses | Other threads

  • your privacy is an illusion

    Google blurs Street View faces, including a horse's

    Google published updated Street View photographs for Manhattan this week. The changes include sharper images, an ability to look upward at the island's skyscrapers and, in an effort to satisfy nervous -nelly privacy advocates, blurred faces. Including one belonging to a publicity-shy relative of Mr. Ed, starring in his latest off-Broadway role.
    05/14/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by dingdongditch: @bigsexyhair: never seen a chick with 4 legs....hence i assumed it must be a horse... more » | Other threads

  • don't be evil

    Italians mistake Google Street View car for prowling Gestapo

    A former neo-Facist, Gianni Alemanno, is the new mayor of Rome. He got the job promising to bulldoze homeless encampments, deport foreign criminals and install surveillance cameras, all in an effort to be tough of crime. So it isn't surprising to read reports that when Google's black Street View car, with its 360-degree camera mounted on top, came rolling down Viale Trastevere in Rome, citizens on the street immediately fled as though it were a horde of brick-wielding blackshirts chanting Me ne frego!
    05/12/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by lind777: Google Streetview needs to also sort out the prostitutes that it managed to snap up with it's 360 degree camera. [www.gofrostfire.com] more » | Other threads

  • your privacy is an illusion

    Google Street View catches kid crashing bike

    Google's Street View trucks don't stop for anyone, or anything. The proof? An unsuspecting Cleveland resident is caught in an embarrassing tumble on a bicycle by Google's all-seeing eye. Doesn't seem like the driver bothered to stop and help, which is in keeping with the hyperefficiency demanded by their overlords in Mountain View. In the future, all our fails will belong to Google.
    04/23/08
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    By Jackson West

    Comment by RosieEscobar: google thumbs it's nose at the Good Samaritan Act. What ever happened to don't be evil? more » | Other threads

  • 2008 bmw x6

    BMW Assist, Google Maps Introduce "MyInfo" Service For New Big-Ass X6

    BMW's teaming up with everyone's favorite mapping monopoly, Google Maps, to bring a new addition to the BMW Assist Safety Plan. It's called "MyInfo," and it's a service which, in addition to sounding hip and techie-cool through deletion of the spaces in the name, will allow BMW Assist subscribers to send business locations, street addresses and their associated phone numbers to their car via some magical connection between the two companies databases. Look at it kind of like a way to use their ConnectedDrive feature from your home. You may already have intimate knowledge of what that's like if you've ever opened up a browser and spent any time at Google's "Local Search" page. The MyInfo system will be available in the BMW X5, X6, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 Series, effective with Model Year 2009, but for 2008 will only be available in the new big-reared 2008 BMW X6 — which, as you can see through the link, we've already had the privilege of road-testing. Starting four days ago, in 2008 X6 "Sports Activity Coupes" equipped with the BMW Assist and Bluetooth systems, customers will be able to call the phone numbers received with their Bluetooth connected mobile phone or, if their BMW is equipped with a navigation system, immediately start route guidance by a simple push of a button. Not to shabby a plan if you ask us. But BMW isn't the first to offer space-deleting net-based navigation connectivity. [Jalopnik]
    04/12/08
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    By Ray Wert

    Comment by B: @BlackIce_GTS: Or the Z4 more » | Other threads

  • your privacy is an illusion

    Google Street View rolls into your driveway

    They haven't filed a lawsuit yet, like their neighbors the Borings, but the McKees' privacy was seemingly violated by a Google Street View car that drove up their driveway, snapping pictures all the way. Janet and George McKee live in the only home on Goldenbrook Lane, a gravel path that leads directly to their driveway — where the property line is. The Google car drove up Goldenbrook and continued all the way up their driveway to the front of the McKee's three-car garage and basketball hoop. Whoops. The Smoking Gun found and contacted the McKees, who said they found the pictures "creepy." Google claims "it takes images from public streets and only shows photos of locations that are in full view". Well, most of the time. See the full collection of images after the jump. Worst position in Google's legal department right now: Google Maps counsel. More »
    04/07/08
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    By Jordan Golson

    Comment by h@ppyC@t: Hmm, these guys sound about as bright at Disney's PhotoPass photographers.. more » | Other threads

  • your privacy is an illusion

    Couple sues Google over Street View pics of their house

    This is the view that Aaron and Christine Boring don't want you to see. The couple — who live at 1567 Oakridge Lane, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, USA, according to their court filing — are suing Google over the company's "Street View" feature, which takes road-level pictures of neighborhoods for their mapping service. Among the complaints, the Borings — their actual name — accuse Google of an "intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion" of their privacy. More pics after the jump. More »
    04/04/08
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    By Jordan Golson

    Comment by PatriciaParrot: The day my famous next door neighbor was killed, my phone started ringing constantly (even though the number was unlisted).... more » | Other threads

  • your privacy is an illusion

    Google Street View rival exposes Marissa Mayer's posh pad

    Even after a recent update, Google Street View's little yellow man wouldn't venture down Google VP Marissa Mayer's expensive alley. But MapJack's "Jack" mascot knows such privacy is an illusion. The rival to Google's 3D mapping service happily goes down Marissa Mayer's residential street. Below, see the street San Francisco cupcake delivery boys know so well. More »
    03/31/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by Fidel on the Roof: @Fidel on the Roof: Hi. I agree... but you know what I mean... right? more » | Other threads

  • perks

    Google updates Street View in San Francisco, leaves Marissa Mayer's pad off the grid

    We thought maybe Google barred its little yellow Street View man from Marissa Mayer's road by accident. But, as the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." Google Earth Blog reports that Google has updated its Street View feature with new maps throughout flyover country, as well as enhancements in the Bay Area. But did the camera trucks visit Mayer's little corner of Stevenson Street? See for yourself, below. More »
    03/28/08
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    By Nicholas Carlson

    Comment by BartKela: Argh, I'm an idiot. I'm looking at Google Traffic coverage, not Street View. Let me amend my comments: significant portions of... more » | Other threads

  • google maps

    A Drug Deal Caught From Every Angle

    For the "streetview" feature of Google Maps, the search engine's agents tour around city neighborhoods in a discreet van. Sometimes they catch more than just identifiable landmarks. Here, on a notorious drug trafficking corner on the South Side of Chicago, Google shows what looks very much like a transaction between a black man in long shorts and a baseball cap, and a sedan, numberplate clearly visible. And, because the map-makers take panoramic photographs as they drive around, one can see the exchange from at least half a dozen angles, as the van approaches, and then looks back. Amazing. This scene has been floating around the web the last few days, but we've pulled together nine shots from different angles, or close-ups, from Google's map site. Enlarged versions are after the jump. (Incidentally, movie-makers have developed thrillers around clues buried in soundtracks (Blow Out) or videotape (Black Rain, for example). I'm waiting for the first mystery in which the clues are sprinkled across Google Maps, Flickr and all the other web sites on which we inadvertently appear.) More »
    03/24/08
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    By Nick Denton

    Comment by BritSwedeGuy: It's just like watching The Wire. more » | Other threads

  • great moments in marketing

    Find "Teh Market" on Google Maps

    A straight shot down Shoreline boulevard from the Googleplex in Mountain View: Teh Market. I can see the engineers gleefully heading there to grab Mountain Dew and Doritos before their next LAN party.
    03/17/08
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    By Jordan Golson

    Comment by Tim-at-lifehacker: I drive by this place all the time but never mentioned it because I thought "Who in their right mind... more » | Other threads