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Instant Zeitgeist

ziggy on 2005-02-08T14:38:00

I have in my list of daily tabs. It's a list of links that at least 10 people have bookmarked recently (last 24 hours or so). Occasionally, there is something so new and popular that it zooms to the top of this list from out of nowhere.

Like today. A link to http://maps.google.com appeared today with 150 bookmarks, 149 of which were bookmarked "recently". (This is what the cool kids are going to be talking about by the coffee machine today.)

The presentation is very clear. Very spartan, yet functional presentation, using lots of JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest, as you would expect. Directions are quite impressive. Searching for something nearby (i.e., sushi or pizza) is the way we should have been doing this all along. It's one of those SMOPs that wasn't so simple until someone did it the first time.

PS: Zoom all the way out and pan around. Google is being rather, um isolationist in their presentation. ;-)

Unbelievable

Mr. Muskrat on 2005-02-09T01:57:48

The level of detail is incredible compared to other mapping web sites.