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.

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From woork:

Blogger it's a very powerful platform to publish your blog. It's free and with some features which you can customize how you prefer, without limits.

In this post I want to illustrate some tips which can help you to improve your Blogger template to design a professional layout for your blog.

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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

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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:

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I'm so incredibly jealous of Google Employees. I saw a map of the Google Campus in Mountain View last year, and decided to make a list of the top 25 places to visit if you ever make it to the Googleplex. To make it a little more interesting, I used Google Maps, and have added a description to each spot on the map. Cruise around the map, and click on the points for more info.

I apologize in advance for having to zoom in to the map, but it only takes a few clicks to get there.

Zoom In a Few Times

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I'd love to add more locations to this map. If you know of any other interesting places to mark, let me know in the comments.

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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

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