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Google gets greener

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Ars Technica reports that Google can now produce 30% of their peak demand power through their new installation of 9,212 solar panels. It can produce up to 1.6MW of green electricity, which is rather impressive.

Along with their other environmental efforts, it looks like they are committed to compensating for the vast amounts of electricity (and therefore carbon emissions) that they use to power and cool their servers (that we are quickly becoming dependant upon).

Great news, Google!
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Google Maps API now supports GeoRSS and KML

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Google has just announced that the Google Maps API now supports GeoRSS and KML. This is going to make the creation of Google Maps applications so much easier, given that Google Earth exports KML, and GeoRSS is becoming more widely used.

They seem to have made some efficiency tweaks too, as a few examples that I’ve tried out at work involving KML and complex polygons seem to work a bit more smoothly.

Get the full info at the Google Maps API Blog or jump straight to some examples.

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Google Metaverse?

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GigaOM reports that more evidence is turning up that Google are developing their own metaverse, i.e. a virtual 3D world like Second Life.

Google themselves have said nothing about it themselves, so this is pure rumour/wishful thinking.

What with Google’s acquisition of SketchUp and Keyhole which demonstrates their keenness in 3D, it wouldn’t surprise me if a Metaverse is up their sleeves. We shall have to wait, watch, and see…