Google street view reveals the insides of some of the world’s most-esteemed museums around the world.
http://www.googleartproject.com/
Google just released Google Goggles for iPhone. It’s been out for Android for a while and is now available for iPhone users. Read more on Google Mobile.
Broken Bells and Arcade Fire recently released interactive website experiences as music videos. Arcade Fire’s site is done as a Chrome Experiment showcasing the capabilities of HTML5. Broken Bells use Flash.
Goolery is a collection of Google related projects from around the world:
Explore projects based on the Google tool used (e.g. Wave projects) or overall popularity.
For those who’ve dreamed up a great mobile app only to learn that development is prohibitively expensive, there’s a new DIY app developer tool on the market from Google:
“App Inventor is a new tool in Google Labs that makes it easy for anyone—programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students—to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices. ”
(via Google Labs)
Check out a demo below:
At its recent conference, Google threw its hat into the ring in the Internet-enabled TV space with Google TV:
Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV.
(Via Google)
Here’s a demo:
The new product will be getting a boost from hardware innovator (and GSP client) Logitech. Ashish Arora, Vice President of the Digital Home Group, explains:
To help bring Google TV to life, Logitech will offer the first retail companion box to work with the platform, which will deliver Google TV to the 60 million HDTVs already in U.S. living rooms today. The Logitech companion box will leverage our Harmony remote technology to give you seamless control over how you interact with your content. In addition, the Logitech companion box will include a controller that’s specifically designed to optimize the Google TV experience – combining a compact keyboard, remote control and touchpad.
Google TV = seamless discovery of content.
Logitech + Google TV = seamless control over how you experience the discovery of content.(Via Logitech Blog)
[Note: Get the latest updates on the Logitech-Google partnership here.
All of these developments suggest that the future of television will be a lot more personalized and engaging, empowering users to control both the pace of programming (start/stop/replay) and the depth of content (pausing a show to play an associated game or read a Wikipedia page about a character).
New Google Search Story featuring Pixar’s Toy Story
Google Latitude Location History tracks where you’ve been, but also includes privacy controls for how much of your location history you share and with whom. They have released an API for developers here.
In a tough economy teeming with hungry, creative workers, Alec Brownstein found a novel way to differentiate himself from the competition:
Brownstein bought Google adwords for the names of industry bigwigs like David Droga, Tony Granger and Ian Reichenthal.
When each creative director did a “vanity google” of their own name, an ad appeared in which Brownstein asked each exec for a job. The result? After investing a total of $6, Brownstein is now working for Y&R .
(via HuffPo)
Alec explains the idea himself in this humorous YouTube video:
Google Goggles just got even cooler. They’ve introduced a new translation feature to their mobile visual search. You can now translate any recognized text into different languages – imagine how useful this will be!
