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Surprisingly on-time, the following week of Google Sightseeing
will be dedicated to our Second Annual Island
Week.

Following on from the success of
last year’s Island Week, we’ll be posting sights related to
small pieces of land that are surrounded completely by water.

Island Week 2006 featured:

Iwo Jima

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Cockburn Island

Island
of the Dead

James Island

Wake Island

Republic of the Marshall Islands

Low Isles

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Does anybody out there use Facebook? Of course
you do, I bet you’re only reading this because there’s nothing new
on your wall.

Well now all you Facebookers can join the http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6381558203 Google
Sightseeing Official Facebook thing!

It doesn’t achieve much, but you joined all those “if 3 billion
people join I’ll eat my hat”-type groups and never visited them
again, right? It’s all about your friend total baby!

Or rather, in this case - fans!

If you need further convincing that Google Sightseeing needs to
be on your favourites list, we’ve recently been ranked the
http://beta.bloglines.com/b/topfeeds?page=5 452nd
most popular blog in the whole world! Well, according
to those fine ladies and gents over at http://www.bloglines.com/ Bloglines anyway.

Tags: , Facebook, google, Meets, Sightseeing

Today, April 6th, is the second anniversary of Google
Sightseeing’s launch! We were planning all sorts of celebratory
new features, but we’re traditionally
late with such things, so you may have to wait a few more
days.

We are also very busy planning our talk for http://refreshedinburgh.org/ Refresh Edinburgh, which is
today at 1pm. If you’re in the
Edinburgh area please come along and heckle.

Update: See my post over at http://rotacoo.com/were-refreshed Rotacoo for a summary
of the Refresh event.

Tags: , google, Sightseeing, today

As long as you haven’t been hiding under a rock, then you’ll
have heard about Google Maps’ new
Street Views, which allow you to walk down the virtual streets
of 5 major U.S. cities. Unsurprisingly perhaps, there’s been a
great deal of interest in the bizarre, humorous and risqué sights
captured in these new images.

We’ve been getting loads of /suggest/ submissions
of these findings, but as they’re mostly not of the kind of thing
that we normally post on Google Sightseeing, we’ve instead decided
to start http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/forum/2 Street View
Sightseeing on our brand new http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/ Google Sightseeing
Forums!

The http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/forum/2 Street
Views forum allows you to post your own findings to share with
the rest of our readers, and every now and then we’ll pick out the
very best and feature them here on the main page of Google
Sightseeing.

As well as the Street View forum, today we’re also launching a
http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/forum/4 General
Discussion Forum where users are free to discuss anything at
all, Google Sightseeing related or otherwise. So please take a
moment to http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/register.php register an
account and say hello on the forums!

We’ll be developing the forums further over time, but for the
moment a handy advantage of registering is that your account will
be integrated into Google Sightseeing, so you’ll be able to post
comments without entering your details over and over, and you’ll
even be able to edit your own comments!

Awesome huh?

Finally, please bear in mind that our forums are still being
actively developed (as always, this is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_cycle#Beta beta)
so may be a little rough around the edges at the moment! (If you
have any feedback regarding how the forums look, how they work, or
how you’d like them to work, then let us know in the http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/forum/5 Bugs / Feature
Requests area.)

http://forums.googlesightseeing.com/ Onward to the
forums!

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Next week Alex and I are taking a little time off. So, to avoid
tumbleweed we’ll be handing over the reigns to you, our favourite
readers, for Google Sightseeing Reader Takeover
Week!

Yes, you have the chance to have your very own
post here on the front page of Google Sightseeing! Your post should
be about something we’ve not featured on the site before id="fnref:1">#fn:1″ rel=”footnote 1, and should
be written in your own words. The length should be similar to our
past posts, and should include the URLs of any Google maps links or
pages you wish to link to, as well as suggestions for the post’s
categories please.

However, you haven’t got long to get your post written - we’d
like you to get your entry submitted by this Friday, 6th
July. We will then schedule all the chosen entries in with
the other posts to take pride of place on the front page of Google
Sightseeing - attributed to you of course!^{#fn:2″ rel=”footnote 2}.

If there’s nothing in your neighbourhood that’s worth seeing
then you might try visiting the http://bbs.keyhole.com/ Google Earth Community or http://virtualglobetrotting.com/ Virtual Globetrotting
for some inspiration, but if you do find a worthwhile location on
another webpage please also include an attribution link.

Time is short, so if you’d like to be a featured blogger here on
Google Sightseeing, get submitting
your stories!

By submitting an entry you are passing the copyright of your
words onto us for publication. We’ll try to get as many of the
really good submissions posted as possible, but please be aware
that not everybody will be chosen.

1. Our http://www.googlesightseeing.com/layer/googlesightseeing.kml
   full KML feed for Google Earth is handy for seeing if a
   location has been posted before. #fnref:1″
   rev=”footnote ↩

2. Make sure you include a link to your
   blog/homepage/myspace/lolcat if you want us to link to you
   too. #fnref:2″ rev=”footnote ↩

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