Building Maker tool - 3D models of buildings for representation in Google Earth

It's fun to use and an easy way to get on the 3D map. It helps users make accurate 3D models of buildings.
Link: http://www.google.com/buildingmaker
Labels: crowdsourcing, fun, geolocation, google, image_processing, maps
3 Desktop Apps in Adobe Air Style for Popular Web Services: GeeMail, Flickroom & Spatz

With GeeMail you can access gmail outside the browser and write emails offline and sent them later.
Link: http://www.sourcebits.com/geemail/

Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved
Link: http://www.flickroom.org/beta/

Spatz is an open source Twitter, Identica and Laconica client written in pure Javascript, XHTML and CSS and utilizes the powerful jQuery Javascript framework.
Link: http://getspaz.com/
AIR applications can operate offline, and then activate further functionality or upload data when an active Internet connection becomes available.
It allows existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to construct a more traditional desktop-like program. (via)
Labels: adobe, air, desktop, flickr, google, software_tools, twitter
Trendsmap shows Real-time local Twitter Trends

Trendsmap is a mashup of twitter search trends and google map in real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world, to find what's being discussed around the world right now.
Link: http://trendsmap.com/
related to TweetTabs and Twitterfall
Labels: geolocation, google, maps, mashups, twitter
How To: Backup Your Tweets and Make Them Searchable with Google Calendar

First, visit the Twistory site and enter in your Twitter username. Then you will be redirected to a page where you can subscribe to your tweet calendar in any one of a few different formats.
Twitter doesn't make more than your last 3000 tweets archived or searchable. But you can go store them going forward using Twistory and Google Calendar.
I had signed up for Twistory way back in late 2007 and added it to Google Calendar. However, I had forgotten all about it since I had that calendar hidden from the default view. I was delighted today when while tinkering that all of my tweets since have been archived! Here's how you can do the same for yours, at least going forward.
via [steverubel]
Labels: google, software_tips, software_tools, twitter
Share your Document, Calendar or Page with Google Groups

Google blog announced that the integration is now already available.
Groups is one of the services that would benefit a lot from an integration with Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and other Google apps.
Labels: collaboration, google, sharing, software_tips, web_apps
Explore Lunar Imagery - Google is mapping the Moon!

Google is mapping the Moon with a photographic map of the equatorial region with pan and zoom capability. it is showing locations of the Apollo landings, primaly.
Map: http://www.google.com/moon/
Blog: Explore the moon in Google Earth
Labels: geolocation, google, maps
GButts Extension (Mozilla Add-ons) - All Favorite Google Services - Quick and Easy

Love all that Google goodness, but do not want multiple home pages on start up or having to depend on multiple bookmarks to access your favorite services? Now you can have easy access to all that Google goodness with GButts.
Install the GButts Extension (Mozilla Add-ons)
via [howtogeek]
Labels: google, mozilla, software_tips, software_tools, web_2.0
Googles fresh Translator Toolkit for more Intercultural Communication

To use in translation with Google Translate Toolkit you can upload up to 1MB for free of Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles and knols or any webpage , when you finish uploading, it automatically pretranslate your document...
...only a handful of blogs picked up on Google’s fresh Translator Toolkit, which the company launched yesterday by means of a blog post.
this new service really deserves a second look...
via [arabcrunch]
Labels: e-business, gadgets, google, html, social_software, web_2.0