Google Earth

By: Stefan Kolle

A (potentially) excellent example of bringing politics closer to the citizen is the new site by the dutch Foreign Secretary, Maxime Verhagen, www.hierisministerverhagen.nl/

A combination of Google maps mashup and twittering, he continuously shows where he is and what he's doing, with added links for background information.

by: C. Sven Johnson (via: Business & Games)

By: Ilya Vedrashko

By: Ilya Vedrashko

For the record: Blogs today are widely broadcasting a rumor "from an academic who heard through the PhD grapevine" and passed on by a VC that Google is putting together pieces to create a SL-like virtual world based on Google Earth.

by: Ilya Vedrashko

I wrote before about Google Earth and SL-like games becoming increasingly alike. Here's a nice illustration.

An Ikea bed model for Sims 2.