Wow! This is unbelievable. Check out the new preview of Google Maps - Street View. Here is a picture of the old Koko Interactive offices. This is where Katie and I lived when we first met. It has El Camino Real. I can’t believe they did this. I believe that within 10 years, we will have high res graphics of most of the US from ground level. Look Arinell’s Pizza, best in Berkeley! Holy cow, this is awesome.
I thought that Microsoft Maps was cool, but this ups the ante. And having overlays where you can see traffic or home prices. It’s just intense. I am thoroughly impressed.
Every month there is some new awesome thing on the web. We truly live in exciting times!
I have alot of my mind these days. Lots of projects. At work, there are lots of different things to occupy my mind. But I have to admit, I love what I do. I wouldn’t want to do anything else. Being a UX Architect is the best job in the world to me. Marketo is an ideal environment for me. I am lucky to have found such a good situation. I hope that the market likes our products as much as I like designing them. if they do, then we are in for a good time.
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I’m definitely the minority view on this, but I think that what Google is doing with this is creepy.
I feel very, very uncomfortable that someone can sit at their leisure at their desk, call up a highly detailed photo of the outside of my home, and view it from a number of different angles to decide what would be the best way to break into the building, all without having to be on the scene. If you’re a rapist, pedophile, stalker, or garden-variety thief, your life just got a lot easier.
That bothers me.