If you’re traveling on Interstate 5 this Memorial Day Weekend and need directions, Google Maps is going to be your best bet. Why? Well, Google has already updated its map to show Thursday night’s collapse of the 58-year-old bridge spanning the Skagit River. See for yourself at Google Maps. You’ll notice that there’s a big gap… Read More…
Since today is International Dance Day, what better time to talk about Matt Harding, the dude behind the global dancing phenomenon Where The Hell is Matt? Harding’s most impressive video, a compilation of him dancing all around the world in place like Afghanistan and Haiti, has garnered more than ten million views in ten months on YouTube and is a… Read More…
For all those still trying to squeeze in as much slope shredding as possible, Google Maps just added more than 100 ski resorts to its database. Now you can see all the greens, blues and blacks at four Washington ski resorts: Snoqualmie, Stevens Pass, Crystal Mountain and Mission Ridge. Oregon’s Mt. Hood Meadows and Timberline are also… Read More…
iPhone users apparently like Google Maps — a lot. Google’s Jeff Huber announced today that there were more than 10 million downloads of Google Maps for iOS in less than 48 hours after its release last week. Google Maps is the number one app in 50 countries and became the most popular app just seven hours… Read More…
Zachary Cohn and Nick Hughes were planning out the logistics for the next Startup Crawl event in Seattle when they recognized a problem. There wasn’t a go-to map to see where startup companies are located in the Seattle area. From that brainstorm, an idea was born. It’s called the Seattle Startup Map. It is a pretty… Read More…
Google Maps today added real-time transit information — not just scheduling data — to its mobile and desktop offerings in two European and four U.S. cities: Madrid, Turin, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco and Portland, Ore. The move cements the Rose City’s status as a favored testing ground for new Google products — the new… Read More…
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