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University of Southern California speaks about implementing Google Apps.

Tips on how to use Google Maps to make trip planning quick an easy. You can also create your own travel map and share with friends

In the first in a series of short, informative videos on privacy, Google talks about what information we collect when you use our search engine and the steps we've taken to protect it. In future videos, we'll talk about why Google keeps logs, what information we record when you're signed into a Google account and steps you can take to increase your privacy when surfing online. Much of this information is already available at our online Privacy Center at http://www.google.com/privacy.html

This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and search.

What if all the world's information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere?

This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an amazing speed: through its popular search engine, through Google Earth, with which users can find any kind of information based on geography, and through Google Print, a project in which Google digitizes complete libraries.

Google is divulging ever more information, in the process hiring the smartest people in the industry. But is the company aware of the responsibility it has, being the guard to all the world's information, including personal information about its users?

This documentary takes a look into the world of Google, in the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California and in its London offices. We see --among others- Vint Cerf, named 'the father' of the Internet who explains the inner workings of Google as a company. Since 2004, Cerf has been working for Google, helping them to develop new applications for the Internet. What is his view on the development of the Internet, and on the role Google plays in today's world?

With its motto 'Don't be evil', Google seems to have the best intentions. But there are also claims that Google is slowly turning into Big Brother, keeping track of its users and continuously making decisions about the information it provides to an ever faster growing number of users.

Will Google turn out to be a new Library of Alexandria, serving as a middleman that brings all useful information to anyone? Or is it turning into a monopolistic Big Brother that challenges the freedom of information?

Research: Martijn Kieft
Director: IJsbrand van Veelen

VPRO Backlight 2006

Author Cory Doctorow discusses his book "Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present" as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place Monday, May 21, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA
Cory Doctorow is the co-editor of the boingboing blog, and author of the books Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. A fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Doctorow writes for such publications as Wired, Popular Science, The New York Times and MAKE. In 2000, he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer.

http://maps.google.com - now you can change customize your driving directions on Google Maps by simply dragging & dropping the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, route around traffic, or add multiple stops on your way.

Google Maps API ist ein effektives Tool, um eine eigene Karte auf Ihrer Website einzubinden. In dieser Session zeigen wir Ihnen, wie einfach es ist, eigene Maps Mashups zu kreieren. Wir fangen bei den Basics an und arbeiten uns durch die verschiedenen API-Tools. Am Ende des Workshops werden Sie erstaunt sein, was für tolle Mashups Sie für Ihre Website bauen können mit nur ein paar Zeilen JavaScript.

Steffen Meschkat ist seit 2004 Software Engineer im New Yorker Google-Büro und arbeitet größtenteils an Google Maps. Zuvor war er Mitgründer der ART+COM AG und der datango AG. Bei ART+COM arbeitete er im Auftrag namhafter Industrieunternehmen an Anwendungsforschungsprojekten auf dem Gebiet der interaktiven 3D-Visualisierung (Virtual Reality) und, seit 1993, des WWW. Für datango implementierte er die browserseitigen Komponenten der Navigation Suite, einer Technologie, die es erlaubt, komplexe Webanwendungen dynamisch durch simulierte Benutzerinteraktionsfragmente zu erweitern. Steffen hat ein Diplom in Physik von der Humboldt-Universität Berlin.