Mapping the News

I read this interesting article on Google-Mapping the News: a prototype of Google Maps being utilized for visual news highlights. A cool idea indeed!

Google is turing out to be a powerful application service provider (ASP) with a range of robust and scalable API services, which solution developers can utilize and integrate to build innovative concepts and projects – personal, social and commercial. Hey, how about a “Best Google-powered Innovation” contest? (Also see: Google-powered Tools and Google’s Feature History)