Posts Tagged ‘google maps’
virtual protest march on google maps
January 26th, 2010 by lifeproof
I have written an article on the dispute between Google and China for a Turkish newspaper the last week. I stated that The Great Firewall of China was not much different than the firewall that the Turkish conservative government has built around us. When I first returned to Turkey this summer after spending two years [...]
Tags: AKP, ban on YouTube, bobiler.org, China, Google, Google Docs, google maps, Istanbul, New York, New York City, ReadWriteWeb, Tayyip Erdogan, The Great Firewall of China, Turkey, virtual protest, virtual protest march, YouTube
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google integrates real into the web
December 10th, 2009 by lifeproof
Google has taken a big step in connecting the real world and the online world in Google Favorite Places. Now, you can stand at the entrance of a restaurant, bar, department store and know about what people commented on that place and how they graded it then decide to enter or not. Or you can [...]
Tags: Google, Google Favorite Places, google maps
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Hard to be White
May 14th, 2009 by lifeproof
It’s hard to be white. If you are a white person, you have to acknowledge the fact that there are infinite number of things in the world that you must whine about. For example, if you are a certain Jess, you may have a complaint like “when will Google Maps update their satellite photo of [...]
Tags: blog, church, complaint, Google, google maps, whine, white, white whine, wi-fi
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