From cnet:

I was looking through the Google Maps directory recently and found a variety of maps worth checking out. From up-to-date weather to barbershops, they should all be added to your list of Google Maps modules.

Listropolis' Take:

I'm a huge Google Maps fan, and I found about 4 of these to be useful enough to add it to Listropolis. I'm sure you'll like something too.

See the List

I'll admit, I'm a huge Firefox fan, and always found add-ons to fill my browsing needs. Then Google launched Chrome, and I had to give it a try. Chrome has now become my default browser on my XP laptop, and while trying to find workarounds for add-ons, I spent some time with bookmarklets.

I've used bookmarklets before, but never for anything more than sharing a story on FriendFeed. Now that I'm having to use them with Chrome, I'm falling in love with them, and have decided to share my top 8. I'd like to see others listed in the comments, and I have a few others, but 8 is enough for now.

This bookmarklet was the inspiration behind this post. X-Robots SEO Tool is a bookmarklet that can be utilized in either Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera on Windows and OS to find information vital to search engine optimization. The tool was built in collaboration with developer Cooper Harris and will continue to be developed to help SEOs. The beauty of this bookmarklet is that no updates need to be downladed since the tool is changed on our end. Just add the bookmarklet to your bookmark's toolbar, and begin to audit the web.

Drag to Bookmark Bar: X-Browser SEO Tools

Allows you to email the current web page you’re on via your Gmail account. There are a lot of tools that help with this, but this one seems the easiest.

Drag to Bookmark Bar: Gmail This

Sometimes sharing with gmail just isn't enough. Share This allows you to share the current web page you’re on to 20+ social bookmarking and social networking sites. All the heavy-hitters are there, so you'll be able to tell the whole world how Obama MUST be a evil because he doesn't wear a flag pin.

Drag to Bookmark Bar: ShareThis

I use Delicious daily. I know there are other, and arguably better social bookmarking services, but to me, it doesn't get any better than delicious. There are actually two bookmarklets you can use with this site, but I'll just post the one that allows you to directly bookmark sites.

Drag to Bookmark Bar: Bookmark on Delicious

Sure, ShareThis from above will allow you to post to Facebook, but this is just a nice and simple bookmarklet to add the page you're viewing to Facebook.

Drag to Bookmark Bar:

If you're not using FriendFeed, you're a tool. But if you are using FriendFeed, this bookmarklet will allow you to post your current page to your main feed, or to any of your rooms. It's simple, but full of options. This is a must if you ever find yourself trying to post to FF.

Drag to Bookmark Bar: Add to FriendFeed

I use a ton of different tools for screen caps, but this one is one of the easiest, making this one of my favorite bookmarklets. "kwout" is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add the bookmarklet to your favorite browser.

Visit Site for Bookmarklet

This list wouldn't be complete without a Twitter reference. If you've ever looked for a dead-simple way to update your twitter status, this is the bookmarklet for you. You have to go to the site to create the bookmarklet, but it's as simple as providing your login info. So head over, make a bookmarklet, and get twittering.

Visit Site for Bookmarklet

---

I have no idea if this will be interesting to anyone, and it's certainly easy to find yourself, but I figure a few of you would like this delivered to you daily, so let's see how it goes.

These are the top 10 searches being performed on Google right now. It's just a simple list, but sometimes it's cool to see what's going on, and I visit the Google Trends page daily.

Google Hot Trends

1. warren zevon
2. fearnet
3. bristol palin alaska
4. 90210 reviews
5. iowalandrecords.org
6. jerry reed dead
7. kvly tv mast
8. gop definition
9. swiss legend mens stainless steel watch
10. fred thompson speech

google, trends, search, hot

From Valleywag:

So much for indexing all the world's information: There are at least 51 places you can't see on Google Maps. One of them is the entire country of Bahrain. Allegedly, the Bahrain's Ministry of Information blocked Google Maps from its citizens because it didn't want the local poors to see the private jets and residences of the Gulf statelet's riches. This got us wondering what sights our government has blocked citizens from viewing. We list five, below.

See the List

I guess technically it's really only one feature, but for three separate things. As far as I can tell, Google just released Templates to their Google Docs suite, which is a great, and long-overdue, addition. I've only spent a few minutes looking through them, but there's a decent selection, and all appear to be good quality. Here's what they have:

Presentation Templates

I still haven't used the Presentations in Docs, but there are 77 pages of templates (starting to wonder if this is really new, or if I'm just now noticing them).

Spreadsheet Templates

There are 115 pages of spreadsheet templates, ranging from service invoices, to event management sheets.

Document Templates

Document templates round out the new templates feature with 117 pages ranging from resumes to business cards.

If you're a Google Docs fan, fire it up and have some fun. It's a nice feature that took too long to get here (unless, like I said before, it's been here all along, and I'm just noticing).

From AskMen.com:

There is no other company more synonymous with the internet than Google. As the mother of all search engines (a legitimate title considering Google surpassed Yahoo! as the most visited website in the U.S. in 2008), Google has come a long way since its early beginnings. It is also ranked as the No. 1 company to work for, according to Fortune magazine. Its popularity has become so widespread that most think Google was born along with the internet. To others, however, Google is the pinnacle of all internet companies -- a multifaceted search engine extraordinaire.

Why such intrigue? Well, here are a just a few things you didn’t know about Google.

See the List

From TechCrunch:

A class at MIT built some mobile apps for Google’s Android operating system and presented them today. CrunchGear’s own superblogger Doug Aamoth reports on the seven apps—loco, Flare, GeoLife, Re:public, Locale, Kei, and snap—that he saw. Below is a slightly edited version of the original post:

See the List

I live in Orlando, and love Google Maps. We were blessed with street view on August 7th, 2007. They continue to expand the area covered, and I was lucky enough to see one of Google's camera-mounted vehicles traversing our streets - so naturally, I followed it..... for nearly 10 miles. I'm still searching the areas I followed the vehicle to see if I can find my car, but no luck yet.

I thought it would be interesting to add a list of all the cities that now have street view, and provide links to them, for your viewing pleasure.

Cities with "Street View"

• Denver
• Las Vegas
• Miami

• Continue Reading