Sesame Street is the American television series (shown in Canada too) which has been pioneer in education for teaching young children. Combining learning and entertainment. Today Sesame Street celebrates forty years.
Originally the project include Jim Henson. He created the famous puppet-characters of Bert and Ernie, Cooke Monster,, Big Bird, Kermit the Frog, Grover and of course Elmo.
The show is produced in the United States by the company Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW), founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Ralph Rogers.
Doodle Sesame Street
Google has paid tribute to the show by creating their famous doodles, incorporating the key characters. The Sesame Street doodle is visible in South Africa, Palestine, Belgium, Croatia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Qatar.
Since Wednesday is the frenzy in Quebec. Everywhere on the web, Facebook and Twitter, people wonder if they recognize their home, their apartment on Google street wiew is now available. Is this an infringement on individual freedom?
In Canada, the online application is available in the cities of Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Halifax, Calgary.
When this feature of Google map, which allows you to see a place like if you were there and to recognize, was released, it was controversial. For people thought at first that the images were real-time. What was worrying, let’s face it. Then people were caught in uncomfortable situations: post a video store for adults, urinating (why do it in the street?), Tanning, picking his nose, etc.. The law protects privacy in Canada is very useful.
The images are taken by car with Pascal Forget Google took a photo and several others when strolling the streets of Montreal last spring.
The functionality of Street View is really impressive. With the mouse or keyboard, you can forward, backward (arrows lower back), swing left or right (left-right arrows), up or down to zoom (+ or – keys).
Faces and license plates of vehicles are scrambled by the computer system — house numbers are not hidden.
Street View is a Google service has experienced the highest growth of use in 2008, said the head research and development of Google, Luc Vincent.
Launched in 2005 as an experiment, Street View only covered five U.S. cities in early 2007. Since the service was implemented in 14 countries.
No income
The service is not yet generating revenue for the Web giant, he said. “The Google model is to first create a unique and useful tool to many people. Once we have this product and we see if it has a good attendance, we will start to think about monetization. This is not our main concern at present. “
In early October, Google and the U.S. cell phone operator Verizon announced a partnership to support the mobile platform Android. Pending the arrival of the Motorola Android Droid under 2.0 on their network operator pokes fun of the iPhone in a campaign.
The new TV spot points out all the things that Apple’s iPhone is unable to do including the issues of not running multiple apps, no 5mp camera, not customization and no widgets.
While pretending to continue to negotiate with Apple to try to get the right distribution of the iPhone when the exclusivity period of AT & T comes to an end by 2010, the U.S. operator Verizon has confirmed its commitment to Google Android earlier this month by signing a partnership with Google.
This involves a co-development of several models Android, with the imminent commercialization of several smartphones including the Motorola Droid (codenamed Sholes) in November. Verizon could not stand up now that the distribution of terminals blacberry and Windows Mobile and is therefore an extension of its support for major mobile platforms.
According to preliminary information, this new version should redesign the interface but also integrate inbox emails unified native support for Exchange, and a new version of Google Maps. In contrast, no sign of support for Flash 10.
Finally, it seems likely that the Motorola Droid, scheduled for release in October or November in the United States, will be the first Android mobile equipped with “Lightning” 2.0.
Google wants to better blur faces and plate numbers in its Street View service, but refuses to reduce the height of the camera that takes pictures. The company is responding to certain recommendations of the Federal Data Protection.
To improve the process of anonymous faces and vehicles, Google will use a new version of its software, the company said. Currently, Google Street View automatically blurs faces and license plates, but the system does not always work.
The American company refuses cons of reducing the height of the camera that takes pictures of streets of Swiss cities. The camera is currently set on a pole placed on a car.
Google hopes to continue photographing buildings and signs so that we can recognize them. “Reducing the height of the mast would also bring the camera in the faces of passersby,” the firm wrote.
The Federal Data Protection had requested that the camera is set so that it can not photograph the gardens or private lessons.
Google has finally given Canadians something they’ve been hoping for for some time: Street View. Now residents in a number of major cities can find their homes, parks, businesses and maybe even themselves on Google’s Street View.
Google Street View Canada currently has high-resolution images of 15 Canadian cities taken at street-level. Currently, the 360-degree views are available in Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Waterloo, Kitchener, Squamish, Whistler, Chilliwack, Banff National Park, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Abbotsford and Vancouver. The earlier part of this year has been spent gathering images for the Canadian cities.
The Canadian government has not hidden their apprehension regarding the technology and privacy. According to Google, all images are taken from public streets and do not infringe on anyone’s privacy. In compliance with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Google Street View automatically blurs the faces of people it captures, along with all license places. Anyone that finds themself of Google Street View can have their image removed by filling out a form online.
Already Canadians have begun sending in fun images they have found on Google Street View. Finds include a street accident at an intersection that disappears while viewing the street 180-degrees, garbage piles in an outdoor skating rink with handwriting on the sidewalk: “Toronto Parks Are Not Dumps!”, and an image showing a Tamil protest in Ottawa across from Parliament Hill.
The Street View application is currently available on iPhones, allowing anyone to enter an address and get a clear, high-resolution view of the intersection or building. All Street View images are patched together from many angles and allow a 360-degree view.
Google Street View was recently launched for 11 cities in Canada. The Canadian government has been very public about their apprehensions with this new technology. They have expressed their concern for the privacy of citizens and their homes.
Google has blurred all faces and license plates in order to ensure the privacy of any individual who may have been included in a photo. Google has explained the views are all taken from public streets, and do not violate anyone’s privacy. Google has included links for reporting any concerns a person may have. Any concerns that are reported will be reviewed. If they are found to violate a persons privacy, they will be removed.
The Street View technology is available on iPhones. Simply enter in an address, and you will get a clear view of the building or landmark you are looking for. Street View uses images that are patched together from several different angles. The Street View, gives a user a 360 degree view of a particular street address. This application was first launched in the United States in 2007. It is currently available in 10 countries.
A few local residents are a little embarrassed about the pictures that were taken during the garbage workers strike. Several of the local parks were filled with garbage and those are the pictures that appear in the Street View. Mayors of these particular cities are hoping to increase tourism with this latest technology.
The Canadian cities that are included in the Street View thus far are as follows; Halifax, Toronto, Quebec City, Calgary, Montreal, Squamish, Whistler, Waterloo, and Ottawa Kitchener.
Google Launches Street View for 11 Canadian Cities
Google has just added Street View for 11 cities in Canada. A few of the cities included are Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver.
The Street View application was first released in May of 2007. There are now 14 countries included in the system. The US was the first country to get Street View, and back then there were only 5 cities available.
Google Street View has recieved a significant amount of controversy.
In the United States in 2007, people complained of being photographed without their knowledge.
Others criticized Google for showing images where you could see inside their homes.
The Canadian government has expressed their concern over the privacy violations that may occur with this application. Google assures people, that the views published, are views that can be seen from any street. Google has blurred people’s faces and license plate numbers, that appear in the images. They have also included a link for people to report any issues they may have with the application.
These applications are available on the iPhones in the maps area. The views are taken from the street, and allow a user to see a panoramic view of a specific area. The views are not in real time. The images were taken over a period of time and patched together.
Users can view landmarks, city parks and other buildings by entering in an address. Several mayors of these particular cities, are excited to have the application go live. The mayors hope to increase interest in their cities, and draw in more tourists.
Google Street View is available in 14 countries.
At a time when Ontario is trying to attract tourists, surfers from around the world can now sail the streets of several cities in southern Ontario from their personal computers with Google Street View.
Google’s Street View feature for Google Maps, enables users to see certain parts of several big cities through panoramic images,
Google Street View is available in many Ontario cities including, Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa.
In Canada, almost 50 000 kilometers of streets can be virtually furrowed: in addition to Ontario cities, the service covers the cities of Vancouver, Whistler, Squamish, Banff, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax.
The launch was done in conjunction with various tourism agencies and property, as Heritage Toronto, Montreal and Tourism Tourism British Columbia.
Google promises that other Canadian cities will soon be added to its service.
When it comes up on a Google Map, users need only click a character yellow and drag to the place he wants to see. A photo of the street at 360 degrees, appears.
In response to concerns in regard to privacy, Google said that the faces of people in these pictures are blurred.
Google began in 2007 to take images of the Canadian cities placed online Wednesday.
Google Street View is currently available in 14 countries: Australia, Canada, Spain, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Taiwan.
York University, Canada–A recent ruling by the Ontario Superior Court has set new limits on the right of e-mail account holders to remain anonymous. It is not their right to freedom of speech that has been limited, but the upholding of the rights of citizens to be protected from slanderous statements.
In this case, involving the appointment of the new Dean of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University, an anonymous e-mail was sent to the president of the university. This e-mail claimed that the new dean had misrepresented his credentials, and that the president of the university had committed academic fraud. It turns out that the statements in the e-mail were not slanderous, yet to protect the right of the individual to pursue litigation in circumstances that could possibly be slanderous, the court ruled in favor of the university.
The court ordered Google, as well as two other large telecommunications companies to reveal the identities of the individuals that had access to the e-mail account. The e-mail was not even entirely anonymous. One professor, David Noble was listed in the e-mail as a contact person for a group of concerned faculty. It is clear that the university could have targeted Professor Noble in court for libel. Instead, they pursued all people connected with the e-mail account. Professor Noble contends that the university was using this legal action to keep the faculty in check.
Opera 10 is finally out of beta and the final version is ready to download at your convenience. So will you do it? Mozilla Firefox has always seemed to be the clear alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari pretty far behind. Then there is Opera at less than 2% according to a recent poll from Net Applications.
Whenever such a small population exist within a segment they seem to band together and create a really loyal fan base. The story is no different here and the new Opera 10 will likely strengthen it’s fan base with new exciting features like Turbo compression technology that boast 8 times faster surfing speed for slow connections.
Turbo compression compensates for sluggish networks by automatically detecting slow connection speeds and then compressing the web page resulting in less data that needs to be transmitted. In my own experience which I might add is limited to only a few weeks testing, Opera is pretty fast.
Other features include a spell checker with support for 51 languages, email client, and the latest version of Dragon Fly, Opera’s spin on Mozilla’s Firebug. The bottom line is it don’t hurt to give it a try and I suggest you do. Who knows, maybe you will be the next Opera fan.