I Love These Moments
August 3rd, 2007
So I clicked a link from Gruber through to a very nice-looking new feed reader called Cyndicate. So I did as most Mac users automatically do – I clicked the screenshots. And what do I find?
Those lovely people at Cynical Peak Software are Google Sightseeing subscribers! Not only that, but it turns out that GGSS is actually one of the default subscriptions – the honour!
Ooh, it just gives me the warm fuzzies you know?
Google Sightseeing Issues
June 2nd, 2007
Google Sightseeing has been up and down (mostly down) for the last 24 hours. The cause of the issue hasn’t been fully identified but we’re working on it as best we can.
Edit: It’s all sorted now
Where 2.0 & Google Developer Day
May 29th, 2007
Geo-conference Where 2.0 has launched in San Jose, where all the big players in everything geo will be giving presentations and launching new features.
Microsoft seem to be first out the gate with loads of new imagery for Virtual Earth, including Bird’s Eye coverage of London.
Google have also launched new imagery in the form of street level views for 5 U.S. cities. It’s similar to A9′s version, but with a much nicer interface.1
Culminating with the end of the conference is the Google Developer Day, to be held in ten cities worldwide. Google will surely be launching a few new features at this event, whilst teaching all those in attendance how to best make use of their various APIs.
I’ll be at the London Developer Day, but unfortunately it’s too much of a trek for Alex to make it down from Edinburgh. So, if you are at the event and you see a man in a Google Sightseeing T-shirt please come and say “hi”.
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I was surprised to see that Street view requires Adobe’s Flash player, given all the praises that were initially sung about Google Maps’ Ajax interface. ↩
Topless Sunbather Achieves Critical Cultural Mass
April 26th, 2007
Well if you haven’t seen it already, here’s Google Maps being featured on The Simpsons!
In fact, a naked sunbathing Homer? That seems to ring a few bells for some reason…
Mobuzz.tv seem to have spotted the link to Google Sightseeing too (skip to about 1:20), mentioning our mass digging1 as well as linking to our Top 10 Naked People on Google Earth post.
It would be lovely to think that the writers on The Simpsons had been stealing their ideas from our site! 
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Also, the shot of Google Earth they show actually features Google Sightseeing’s push-pin icon, which we use with kind permission from Adam Betts. ↩
Vote For Us!
April 18th, 2007
If you like Google Sightseeing, then why not vote for us in the Blogger’s Choice Awards? We’ve never gotten anywhere in these blog polls before, but maybe that’s because we don’t beg our entire readership to stuff the ballot boxes on our behalf…
Anyway, if you’re a fan, then you can vote for us as the Best Geek Blog, the Best Blog About Stuff, the Best Travel Blog, or even the Best Blog of All Time!
Oh, and feel free to tell your friends of course…
We’re Refreshed
April 8th, 2007
This weekend Edinburgh was graced with Scotland’s first “proper” web conference: The Highland Fling. The speakers were all excellent, and gave me loads of ideas for things I’d like to implement in both my day job and night job. Stand-out talks were Mark Norman Francis on Graded Browser Support and Andy Budd on some of the best features we should be trying out from CSS3. Olly has a good write-up of the day.
The next day the tables were turned, and some of the speakers from The Highland Fling saw what Scotland had to offer at the Refresh Edinburgh conference. Matt Riggott and John Sutherland were the hosts, and Matt’s employers, Line had kindly offered up a fantastic venue. The room promoted a laid-back feel with Tennent’s artwork and a Tuk-tuk in the corner.