Google Maps: Mapping the indoors.

A new feature in Google Maps for Android 6.0, is the support for floor plans in buildings: When you’re inside an airport, shopping mall or retail store, a common way to figure out where you are is to look for a freestanding map directory or ask an employee for help. Starting today, with the release …

Flash Pro generating HTML5

Ten minute demo by Adobe VP Paul Gubbay, showing off some advances Adobe has made, which will be available in future versions of their products: Animating in the new Adobe Edge app Turning that output into an app using PhoneGap Using Flash Professional to export animation as HTML Running CSS Shaders in WebKit Enabling “liquid …

Address is approximate

A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. Utterly brilliant video. Awesome idea, very well executed! Soundtrack by The Cinematic Orchestra, …

Google Street View Cars mistakingly collected Wifi data

Great to see how Google is handling this (although this never should have happened): Google said that once it discovered the issue, it grounded its Street View cars. It intends to delete the data that’s already been collected and is working with regulators to determine how to dispose of it. In the interest of transparency, …