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Synergy hunt

Not much of a shopper myself, I completely missed Google’s own Froogle + Maps official mashup that launched last week: Froogle Local.

Here’s Froogle Local in action, looking for iPod nanos in the East Village, sorted by distance.

Usually when I see something web 2.0-ish, I’ll hunt down the Google Earth angle (I run this blog, see) so I was a little bit disappointed not to find a dynamically generated KML network link at the bottom of my search results directing me to Google Earth, where iPod nanos would then appear (automatically generated logos would be nice) whereever they are sold, whenever I pause my view, in the manner of the cooler network links currently out there.

Froogle Local would also work well as one of the search options inside Google Earth, so that you can circumvent the browser for that part. Currently, though, this is a missing bit of synergy from Google’s products, and I assume it’s because nobody can do everything all at once.

Essential GIS software

Mapz, a GIS librarian, lists his essential software for a GIS Lab. It’s always interesting to see what else is out there.

Earth calling Tierra

In my feed reader this morning:

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Unfortunately, registering on the site doesn’t let me access the page directly (I lack permission, fortunately my RSS reader doesn’t). Here are the direct links to the images referenced, for googleterre.com and googletierra.com.

GoogleTerre is in French, not Spanish, and both French and Spanish surfers tend to prefer their own top-level domain suffixes, so I don’t know how many takers there will be at $1,200. If anyone is considering it, go.ogleearth.com is available for just $1,195:-)