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Augmented reality, live video overlay from Photosynth creator

by Scott McAndrew on February 17, 2010

Bing Maps

This is a great video from TED2010 that shows off the latest Microsoft has to offer on the mapping front including live video being overlaid at the street-view level in Bing Maps. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, who brought us Seadragon/Photosynth, lead the team that made this a reality.

The whole video is worth a watch, but if you want to skip to the clip that shows the live video integration forward to the four minute mark.

With all the video cameras monitoring intersections, parking lots and buildings it makes you wonder what the future of mapping will be like. Will we be ‘walking’ through real-time virtually online?

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15 February 2010

Are these social AdWords ads?

Google Social AdWords Ads?

I was doing some searches today to see if anything was new and exciting with how Google was handling Social Search results and saw something in the Sponsored Links results that’s new to me.  I searched for Terralever (the online marketing company I work at) and one of the AdSense results was for another local [...]

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9 February 2010

Google Buzz Poll: Force or Flop?

Google Buzz Poll

Following several clunky forays into social media, today Google has unveiled Google Buzz.
From the Official Google Blog:
Our belief is that organizing the social information on the web — finding relevance in the noise — has become a large-scale challenge, one that Google’s experience in organizing information can help solve. We’ve recently launched innovations like real-time [...]

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1 February 2010

Google puts some more social in its search

Google Social Search Example

Last week I did an internal presentation at Terralever talking about how search engines like Google and social networking sites alike were likely both attacking the idea of extending their understanding of both information and the social graph. Today I tripped over an example of Google Social Search and recollected on the presentation. In [...]

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8 September 2009

Does local search matter?

Google Map marker

How much does having a local search listing matter for a business ? The short answer: A lot.

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1 July 2009

Robert and his locksmith encounters-A Google Local spam story

Locksmith Spam

As Google will tell you, Robert is one hell of an unlucky person and finds himself in need of a good locksmith regularly. He’s also nonexistent and a spammer.

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22 April 2009

Marketers and Developers: There’s (finally) a Google Analytics API

Google Analtyics API

At long last, an API for Google Analytics. It’s going to be great to see what developers and marketers team up to do now that Analytics data can be accessed without hacking.

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10 April 2009

The future of search

The future of search

Evey aspect of search, from how one makes a request, what form that request takes, what the response is, and how the response is presented, is due for change.

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11 March 2009

Travel and tourism online marketing presentation

Online Marketing for Travel and Tourism Presentation

My presentation about online marketing for the travel and tourism industry was today. I received several requests for the presentation slides, so I’ve made them available for download here.

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20 February 2009

Travel & tourism online marketing questions?

Online Travel Marketing Questions

I’m preparing on a webinar to be presented in March concerning online marketing for travel & tourism. If there’s something you’d like me to cover, let me know.

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