Drop Spots and Google Maps

November 6, 2006 · Filed Under Web Application · 1 Comment 

Drop Spots and Google Maps

This is awesome, I really need to try this out, it is like going back to those childhood years. Brijetta Hall, Dan Phiffer and Ed Purve are bringing treasure hunting back to adulthood. With Drop Spots, what you need to do is simply hide a gift and post it online, it could be a map or puzzle to an even greater gifts. This is like finding easter eggs both in the real world and digital world.

Drop Spots is a simple but cool social game; people hide little gifts in public (yet semi-hidden) places, share the location via Google Maps, and then a lucky finder can grab the gift – and is encouraged to hide their own surprise with Drop Spots.

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Google Maps for Treo

October 12, 2006 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

Google Maps for Treo

This is the latest release from Google, Google Maps is now available for Palm Treo, only for Palm and I don’t think it works with my Dell Axim loaded with Windows Mobile 5.0. I guess these guys at Googleplex sure is waging a serious war with Microsoft. Personally I think Google Maps is great, especially for travellers and if this whole Google Map thing take off like wild fire, Google will be filty rich, imagine the amount of advertisement Google can make just by including a small baloon that says “Hotel here - USD80 per night - select here for more information”.

I believe Google is the future and with so many bright graduates and phd holders, Google will be the next Microsoft, perhaps even bigger.

Google says this one “is the fastest, slickest version yet, with draggable maps and translucent pop-up balloons that don’t hide the map.”

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