links for 2009-05-21

Endlich Kapitän sein, dank Google Earth

Earth Album is a very simple and very effective mashup of Flickr and Google Earth. Just move the cursor around and you’ll be stabbed in the eye with gorgeous imagery from your chosen country or region. You can then refine your search using keywords to focus on a particular area.

Back in the early 1960s, famed designer Raymond Leowy locked himself and his team in a rented house for five weeks with the intent of designing an exciting new sports coupe for Studebaker. The result was the Avanti, which would go on to become one of the most enduring shapes in automotive history. How so?

Glympse is a groundbreaking new way to share your location with anyone for a specified period of time using patent-pending GlympseWatch timer.

Mit Martin Nisenholtz, Chef der Internet-Abteilung der „New York Times“, wettete Winer um 2000 Dollar, dass die Fundgruben im Netz in fünf Jahren eine wichtigere Informationsquelle sein werden als Tageszeitungen.

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