Comments on: Following up on Google Street View http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/20/following-up-on-google-street-view/ information ethics : privacy : new media : values in design : 2.0 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Zimmer http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/20/following-up-on-google-street-view/comment-page-1/#comment-67784 Michael Zimmer Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:06:28 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/20/following-up-on-google-street-view/#comment-67784 My guess is that a main motivation is to help with user navigation via mobile phone, once Google has deeper penetration on mobile devices. Imagine you're trying to find a particular bar, and rather than just a bird's-eye view of the street layout, you can actually see the layout of the block from your own perspective. (This, of course, combined with placing location-specific advertising, which brings in all kinds of locational-privacy issues...) My guess is that a main motivation is to help with user navigation via mobile phone, once Google has deeper penetration on mobile devices. Imagine you’re trying to find a particular bar, and rather than just a bird’s-eye view of the street layout, you can actually see the layout of the block from your own perspective.

(This, of course, combined with placing location-specific advertising, which brings in all kinds of locational-privacy issues…)

]]> By: Dave http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/20/following-up-on-google-street-view/comment-page-1/#comment-67404 Dave Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:00:45 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/06/20/following-up-on-google-street-view/#comment-67404 I hadn't really been following the development of this Google app. Really why develop it? Its just more wasted bandwidth. Traffic cams, weather cams those kind of things are useful and the big G should be developing those kind of combined Google Maps-live image ideas. I hadn’t really been following the development of this Google app. Really why develop it? Its just more wasted bandwidth. Traffic cams, weather cams those kind of things are useful and the big G should be developing those kind of combined Google Maps-live image ideas.

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