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Alfisted
10/27/09

In reply to Is Google Secretly Working On A Free Mobile Navigation App?
Are there passengers in streetview cars, or just drivers? I've ridden in Tele Atlas cars as data is collected - a passenger is needed to key in pertinent data.

I will be more surprised if Google doesn't do this, especially since I expect all carriers to openly expose GPS APIs in the near future.
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isaacws
10/27/09

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gavigation, gnavigation, gmaps2 #googlemobilenavigationapp
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newgalactic
10/27/09

@isaacws: GNavi #googlemobilenavigationapp
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Audi5000
10/27/09

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Apple will smack this with a Thor sized ban hammer. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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Alfisted
10/27/09

@Audi5000: That will hurt Apple more than Google in the long run. The iPhone is at high tide. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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daPrinz
10/27/09

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What is the legislation on this matter. Can Google just go ahead and destroy other companies by simply giving away free products? I mean, they are basically paying it from their search engine advertisement. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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frigg
10/28/09

@daPrinz: Once Google starts providing their much rumored fruit of the month club, Harry and David is in serious trouble. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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Wayne Williams
10/27/09

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I wish Google would make an email client for OS X and Windows. You know, one that worked and was fast, unlike Outlook? #googlemobilenavigationapp
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newgalactic
10/27/09

@Wayne Williams: They do, it's the web interface. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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AmphetamineCrown
10/27/09

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I <3 Google. Unlike every other commercial enterprise in the world, Google really is out to help me. I mean, seriously, all these open APIs to help me use their stuff, a near monopoly on search, Gmail, youTube, Picasa, Google Wave, Google Voice. I really think they are reshaping fundamentally what companies are supposed to be. They are socially responsible--if you don't care about censorship and stuff for repressive governments--and I don't even think they care about making money at all.

Just think. They know what I search for on the web. And they have my pictures and my video. They know who I collaborate with. The know who I call, who calls me, and what messages I get. And now, they will even know where I am all the time! And, I sooooo trust them because, after all, their unofficial corporate slogan is "don't be evil," right? So how could all of this information gathered about me possibly be a problem? #googlemobilenavigationapp
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philibuster
10/27/09

@AmphetamineCrown: I see you took off your tin foil hat to post this. Don't forget to put it back on, or the gubmint will get you. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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frigg
10/28/09

@AmphetamineCrown: haha! #googlemobilenavigationapp
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mikeyzman001
10/27/09

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Google is Evil. GPS to help you find your way? Or GPS to help them find you. Everything google does can also be looked at as monitoring you.

Google is evil.
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jakebathman
10/27/09

@mikeyzman001: What, exactly, would Google do with my location? Why do they care about where I am driving in my car? #googlemobilenavigationapp
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pantsonfireliarliar
10/27/09

@jakebathman: Oh, hai! I see you are driving by Flashdancers, which you called on Google Voice last night. Would you like directions to other clubs in the area? Of course, this happens while you're with your wife and kids...

Or put in the tin foil hat paranoia way: What the world governments have failed to do with Echelon and various data collection methods, we are gladly giving to Google.
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jakebathman
10/27/09

@pantsonfireliarliar: nah, there's opt-out methods now to stop data collection, and they admit they don't keep everything forever. I'm fine with them using my data to make the product better (and to give me more relevant ads...that's why these products are free and I'll continue to be okay with that). #googlemobilenavigationapp
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jakebathman
10/27/09

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ALL PRAISE TO THE GOOGLE! #googlemobilenavigationapp
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OCEntertainment
10/27/09

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This seems like it's only the logical consolidation of all of Google's other mapping services. Google has maps, directions, and a perspective view with Street View. When you're on a phone, you can follow with GPS, and even link into Latitude. What major feature of a dedicated GPS unit is missing besides it actually reading the directions out to you?

It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit to see an Android/webapp come out that consolidates all these services and turns your phone into a dedicated GPS.

About dang time, too. Frankly, except for folks who regularly end up outside cell service, I don't understand how dedicated GPS units still survive. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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dagamer34
10/27/09

@OCEntertainment: Because they are still better when you are actually driving on the road by yourself. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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malaklaze
10/27/09

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i love someone who can spell "definitely" properly! #googlemobilenavigationapp
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350z-Racer
10/27/09

@malaklaze: The correct spelling is definitely.

Not definately.

Not definatly.

Not definantly.

Not definetly.

Not definently.

And certainly not defiantly.

The correct spelling is definitely. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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Lizard_King
10/27/09

@350z-Racer: This word always causes me to see little red dotted lines. Always. #googlemobilenavigationapp
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Martin M. Gilbert
09/29/09

In reply to China Completes 3D Map of the Moon, Gets a Bit Nearer to Red Moon Dream
HMMMM I thought I would mention that this angular resolution crap is BS, I just saw a post on Gizmodo showing me images of mars with even small rocks visible... Go look up how much better resolution china has of the moon. NASA has put out that stupid image of a dot claiming its the lander. But yet somehow no other nation on the earth has seen any evidence of man being on the moon. (china, japan, etc...) YES, china and japan both have said they cant find evidence of anything.

Just think about it.
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JT73
09/29/09

@Martin M. Gilbert: That some people still think we didn't land there is astounding. Also in the news, the earth was discovered as being totally flat as previously thought and yes, the moon is in fact made of cheese.
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Martin M. Gilbert
09/29/09

@JT73: haha so you believe everything you see and hear huh? Your one of those kinda people... I just try to be open minded about things... And when look into this and see nothing but weirdness, then I'm going to come to one conclusion. I dont' know for sure if we landed or not. You don't know for sure either.
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
09/29/09

@Martin M. Gilbert: No, he's not, but you will use a logical fallacy to make him seem that way. Even if he did believe "everything he heard", how would that affect the reality of us landing on the moon, just as you're believing that it didn't happen doesn't invalidate the fact that it did happen.

Do you honestly think with the spies our enemies had in our agencies, and also the sheer amount of people involved, that proof of "the truth" wouldn't have leaked out by now? Two people can't keep a BJ in the Oval Office a secret, but the tens to hundreds of thousand people involved in this "hoax" can?

Just answer this question honestly: What's more believable; that we landed on the moon, or that the government managed to keep over 50k people "quiet" and maintaining a story they knew was false and not had a single one of them "crack"?
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JT73
09/29/09

@Martin M. Gilbert: Indeed it is a question of simply weighing and observing the evidence at hand. In general one should not simply take things at face value, no doubt. After factoring in all arguments, evidence, etc, one can only arrive to one logical conclusion: the landing did in fact occur. Done and done.
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Shada
09/29/09

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If it was a fake then why has India not mentioned it as a fake themselves.

Same with the US moon landings if they were faked then why did the Russians during the cold war never call them on it.
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Martin M. Gilbert
09/29/09

@Shada: Russia didn't have the technology to disprove it...
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
09/29/09

@Martin M. Gilbert: Wow.....Just wow. You REALLLLLY think Russia didn't have tracking technology to be able to track a object broadcasting and receiving data/signals?
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GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
09/29/09

In reply to China Completes 3D Map of the Moon, Gets a Bit Nearer to Red Moon Dream
China, I'm rill happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Buzz Aldrin had once of the greatest space walks of all time. OF ALL TIME!
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frigg
09/29/09

In reply to China Completes 3D Map of the Moon, Gets a Bit Nearer to Red Moon Dream
Turns out, at the last minute, some politician decided to release a cuter version of their 3D map of the moon, and just have it lip sync to the actual imagery collected by their probe.
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Die Fledermaus
09/29/09

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While I do not fully except the conspiracy theory bubble talk I have to give credit for the other observations. I think the Chinese are taking more credit then they are do about their space abilities.
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gadam07
09/29/09

@Die Fledermaus: In the case of China, I wouldn't be surprised. I think the reflected lights and bubbles are the only valid points in that video, though.
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jakebathman
09/29/09

@gadam07: I guess I never saw this when it happened? Anyone have rebuttals for these things in the video? Interesting....
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