Google launches Street View, and check out EveryScape’s magic carpet
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Google’s latest move on maps is impressive, and knocks out Microsoft’s latest effort to spruce up its maps with 3D imagery.
Separately, scared out of the shadows is a Waltham, Mass. start-up, Everyscape, which has a similar offering, but its twist is that it lets you cruise streets, landmarks and even enter buildings. It has a demo of Union Square, in San Francisco, and says a full lunch is planned for fall. It has a high… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google’s roadkill, the VC president?, Winer’s Twitter, more
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My Maps kills start-ups? — There is plenty of commentary about how Google’s new feature My Maps is killing off start-ups doing the same thing. The new feature lets you build maps. Platial and Frappr are already doing this. This doesn’t make Google an ogre, as some suggest. An ugly company is one that does due diligence on your company, under guise of possibly partnering or acquiring you, only to pull out at the… Continue Reading
Live.com to see executive shuffle?
Microsoft has continued to struggle with its new Live.com branding for its online consumer site offerings.
A source has told VentureBeat there’s about to be a management reshuffling at Live.
We ran this by Microsoft, and a spokesperson declined comment. So we’ll chalk it up to rumor until we hear more.
Meanwhile, Microsoft said yesterday it would offer movies and episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live online service in the United States, starting Nov…. Continue Reading