Bing Maps: New Spatial Streetside Photos w/ Flickr

This new Bing maps feature takes tagged photos from Flickr, and relates them to our Streetside imagery to show images matched to their original context. See if you're really going to g et a good sunset at that B&B youre looking to book, or check out the crowds on a Saturday morning at Pike Place Market in Seattle.

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What is Google Voice?

Google Voice is about giving you more control over your communications, through dozens of features — ranging from call screening to voicemail transcription to the ability to send and receive SMS by email.

While we've heard from users that they love our growing list of features, we're conscious of the fact that Google Voice can seem overwhelming to people trying it for the first time.

So we've created a short video that gives an overview of what Google Voice can do.

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The Presentation Secrets Of Steve Jobs

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Introducing the Street View Trike

Google Maps Street view team recently found a new way to film our streets: they built an innovative bicycle-based camera system called “The Street View trike”.

If you have any suggestion in order to help them collect new places which are not reachable by car like malls, parks or trails tell them where to ride ! (US only for now).

 

 

 

 

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America's Best Young Entrepreneurs: Twenty-Five U.S. Entrepreneurs Ages 25 and Under - BusinessWeek

Find out 25 impressive businesses: feel free to vote for the promises project, the announce of the top vote is on November 9, 2009.
Some interesting web and media companies:
- Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith started Box.net in 2005: simple Online collaboration, online file storage, FTP and team workspaces
- Shama Kabani, 24 (Dallas) wrote a thesis on why people use Twitter and other social networking sites, in 2008 she created Click To Client an Online marketing expert
- Sam Lessin, 26 (Brooklyn, N.Y.) is the CEO of Drop.io a simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and presentation, very usefull !
- Becky Stockbridge,25 (Portland, Me.) with iBec Creative Web development and graphic design
- Nat Turner, 23 Zach Weinberg, 23 Scott Becker, 23 (Philadelphia); and Michael Provenzano, 23 with Invite Media which is an amazing platform

- and many more ...

 

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MASSIVEGOOD Join the movement

MASSIVEGOOD Join the movement: http://www.massivegood.org/
MASSIVEGOOD is an innovative fundraising movement that combines micro-philanthropy with social media. MASSIVEGOOD will let travelers make a small donation ($2/€2/£2) ...
What do you think about this king of massive movement ?

Here are 2 other instances of massive projects:
Stand Up To Cancer's purpose is to enable cutting-edge research aimed at finding a cure to all types of cancer, including breast, prostate, skin, brain, ...
Find out the Standup2cancer project here: http://www.standup2cancer.org/

Mr. Mandela has spent 67 years making the world a better place, and the Mandela Day project here: http://www.mandeladay.com/

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The smoking plant

A video-experiment of the smoking plant project.
This experiment is based on an installation of 2 plants in glass cases.
During 2 weeks the whole expermiment was filmed and diffused in live on the Internet.
As you've seen on the video, the results are disasters.
I let you think how your body receives it...
For the no smokers readers by you, please get some responsabilities and help us fight against this addiction.

Have a good night.

Sources:
http://www.brainstorm9.com.br/2009/09/21/a-planta-que-fuma-o-resultado/
http://osocio.org/message/the_smoking_plant/

On twitter: twitter.com/aplantaquefuma

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