houses that opt out of google streetview get tagged with "GOOGLE'S COOL"

following through

google maps india uses contextual clues like "pink building on the right" for driving directions; this is nuts

passive versions of agressive media / google street view becomes this on the internet / and a japanese NHK tv show that is just narrated walks around

drawing of Google Maps downtown Manhattan if Robert Moses' Lower Manhattan Expressway had been given the go

"so they're not just tools for locating yourself or your objects, but for locating your memories and exchanging them with others"

hell yeah, via JODI

despite a seemingly lame reason for doing so (publisher's rights), Google has been forced to embark on the largest real life (newspapers, trade journals, etc.) legal notice campaign to notify authors of orphaned books that they must opt in or out of Google Book Search

from bennett

for all those folks who made the Ed Ruscha's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" connection... plus it might be live video at some point??

google searches for names of addressees mis-sent to bennett

essay on google art (en francais) (via nastynets)

confusion