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Build your own google streetcar

From www.zog.net.au , Feel what it's like to be Google, watch people freak out.. http://fffff.at/google-street-view-car/

For Transmediale 2010 F.A.T. members met in Berlin and produced a series of projects dedicated to the topic of the week: FUCK GOOGLE. In addition to free software, browser addons, live streams, communiques and on-site workshops, F.A.T. Lab built a fake Google Street View car and conquered the city of Berlin! All FG projects!

Google appengine handling external services and xpath

Two really frustrating things that one needs to adjust to when writing python applications for google's appengine, which for me I hit straight away because I was writing a 'mashup' type webapp which involves consuming services and processing the data into something new and hopefully fanstastic

No skype for nexus one?

So it seems there's no skype for nexus one, presumably because nexus one comes bundled with google chat (which is useless to me anyway)

this is probably because ;

- Skype don't have an open SDK to work from, their idea of an SDK is to talk their application via COM interface, so you cannot easily write an application

- Google are pushing their own agenda's even tho the nexus one is touted as being an 'open platform'

You can read some critism of skype at below links

http://forum.skype.com/topic/22346-source-code-of-skype/

Google chrome ey hmm!

So, I installed google chrome by following a tip from my mate zog about adding some deb-sources for it

echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

then just

apt-get update
apt-get install google-chrome

Weird stuff so far

- It assumes no window manager is running and takes care of its own window events, you'll need to disable the window border in KDE (right click on the toolbar)

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