Friday, March 11, 2011

Latitude Gurus Battle Foursquare Mayors

Google Latitude

Google Latitude users can now earn offers when they use the service to check-in at different venues.

Google Latitude will reward users who regularly check-in to particular venues with 'Regular', 'VIP', or 'Guru' status. Your status at a particular venue could also earn you rewards in the form of offers that the venue has created for particular status levels.

For example, a cafe may give their Regulars a discount on a cup of coffee. You can find places where check-in offers are available in Google Maps for Android search results and Place pages. This means that you can check your Android phone for nearby offers before deciding which venues to visit.

Check-in offers are being launched in Austin this week but Google has plans to expand the service. You can learn more at google.com/mobile/checkin.

Via: Google LatLong

Co-Working with Google Maps

Desktime

If you are looking for a desk or office from which to work or have spare desk space then you need Desktime. Desktime is a co-working search engine for Chicago and Austin (with presumably more cities on the cards).

Using the Desktime Google Maps based search engine you can search for a co-working space by location. The map includes a number of filters that let you search for properties with high speed internet, parking facilities, 24 hour access etc.

Loosecubes

Loosecubes is a website to find and share co-working spaces. Anyone who has a few extra desks or office space can use Loosecubes to rent the space.

If you are looking for a co-working office space you can use the Loosecubes Google Map to find a desk near your location. You can refine the results shown on the map to show properties that are available to rent by the day or those that require a minimum of a month. You can also refine the results to show 'open desks', 'private offices', 'conference rooms' or an 'event space'.

Share Your World with Google Maps

Mobnotes

Mobnotes lets you share your location with friends, share your favourite places, search for venues around you and view other people in your vicinity. The application is available from the desktop and as an iPhone and Android app.

Google Maps is used extensively by Mobnotes. The home page features a real-time animated map of the latest check-ins made by users of Mobnotes. You can also use Google Maps to show your location and to view places/venues and other users nearby.

You can also use Mobnotes to let your friends know where you’ll be at a particular time. You can specify a location and inform your friends when you will be there using the Mobnotes 'Events' feature.

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Vilnius Property on Google Maps

NT paieška

NT paieška is a nicely designed Google Maps mashup to search for real-estate in Lithuania.

Using the site it is possible to search for property in Lithuania by location, price and by the number of rooms. The search facility includes a handy slide-bar function that allows you to adjust the price range for your property search and for the number of rooms you are interested in. 

The results of a property search are displayed on the map and listed in the map sidebar. If you mouse-over the results in the sidebar the location of the property is highlighted on the map. If you click on an individual property you will be taken to a page with the full details.

New Japanese Street View Imagery

reet View trike has been out and about in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The new Street View imagery includes the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and serves as a memorial to the people who were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.


Hiroshima Peace Memorial (the Atomic Bomb Dome)

Google have also added Street View imagery of the impressive Itsukushima Shrine, both at low tide and at high tide.




Itsukushima Shrine

Another new addition is, I think, the first Street View imagery of a baseball stadium on Google Maps.


The MAZDA Zoom-Zoom Stadium, Hiroshima

Via: Google Japan Blog