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Google Maps Mobile 2 Beta

Here's a tiny bit more information on the My Location feature in Google Maps Mobile 2. http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en At the moment it can't seem to pinpoint my location (without GPS). I'm in Amsterdam.... Let's see if it finds me during the course of today! Well, I'm impressed :) The My Location feature did indeed kick in later in the day when I was on my way home. It told me (and showed me) that it had pinpointed my position to within "1700m". There was the familiar little blue dot, but this time with a faded blue circle around it. The position of the solid blue dot was in fact a fair bit closer than 1700m. It was about 900m away from my exact location. So, this is pretty impressive. Not so great for door to door navigation. I mean, if you were in a car you'd be pretty screwed, driving through parking lots and over the edge of cliffs. No, "to within 1700m accuracy" doesn't cut the mustard. But for location-based news, w...

Stuff I SHOULD build!

Two things I'm missing from my browser at the moment are: 1) A way to send a web page I like to multiple destinations with only having to fill in a single form (e.g. Send simultaneously to Furl , LinkaGoGo (old skool but POWERFUL online bookmarks manager), Blog (?!), Digg , Yahoo bookmarks, Google Docs n Spreadsheets , Gmail - Whatever!! 2) A simple way to select part of a web page and just blog the stuff I've selected.. OH.. I just remembered I can do that with Clipmarks . Super. The only thing I'm not to fantastically keen on with Clipmarks blogging is that it fancies up the blogged bits and sticks a frame around everything blah blah. I just want it to blog the stuff with zero fuss.