SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Pulls Calorie Counting 'Cupcakes' Feature From Maps After Strong Backlash BuzzFeed News' Katie Notopoulos documented a new, short-lived Google Maps feature that would suggest walking to a given close-by destination while telling you how many calories the average human would burn doing so.
SF News Google Wants You To Help With Street View By Using A $3,500 Camera Google's looking for a hand in keeping Street View updated by putting some high-powered tech into your hands. In order to do that, Google's turned to third-party manufacturers to develop what they call
Arts & Entertainment Google Releases Pac-Man For Maps; Go Play On SF Streets Offices today are at a standstill as the citizens of the Internet learn of a new Google-released game that can be played on Maps. As of this morning, you can turn most sections
Arts & Entertainment Visit The Moon And Mars Using Google Maps If you can't wait until 2026 — the year SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he'll have humans on Mars (or won't be able to afford it when the time comes) — take a trip now
SF News Google Unveils Slick New Maps Google's I/O developer conference kicked off in San Francisco today. While Larry Page didn't have anything new to share about everyone's love-it-or-hate-it nerd toy during the keynote address, Google did release something
SF News Google Maps Adds Weather Working yet again with the Naval Research Lab, Google unveiled their first real-time weather layer to go with Google Maps. The weather feature will show current temperatures and conditions around the world. This
SF News Google Maps Brings In Real-Time Transit Data Edging ever closer to omnipotence, the big G has added real-time transit data to Google Maps. If you've ever tried to catch a bus or BART train based on Google's arrival in the
SF News Google Takes the Wheel With Driverless Vehicles by Andrew Dalton Over the weekend, a Google software engineer announced on the company's blog that the Big G has been testing autonomously-driven vehicles all over California's highways and byways. You may have
SF News Google Maps Adds Biking Directions Say you've taken a bike ride out to Sutro Baths, lollygagged on the sands of Ocean Beach, and then brunched at the Cliff House. It's kind of cold out there, right? A bit
SF News Google to Reshoot Japan's 'Street View' After receiving numerous complaints in Japan, "where personal privacy is highly valued," according to SF Business Times, Google will reshoot the country's street scenes. It seems that some of the shots in Japan,
SF News Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Prefers Google Maps Speaking at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz fessed up to the following bit of commonsense. Bartz was asked about the maps business and how Yahoo has fallen behind. She
misc Google Map Plots Out Oakland Murders of 2007, 2008 Your optimistic San Francisco Chronicle has decided that the best way for you to imagine how many murders take place in Oakland each year (and where) is to plot them out on a
misc Google Maps Street View Sees All LA-based comedy troupe The Vacationeers fears Google Maps Street View Big Brother-ness. And ever since we saw a shot of our bedroom window on it, featuring our awful interior decor, so do we.
misc Day Around the Bay The Pope, Linda Blair, and the Vatican’s "exorcist-in-chief." [BeyondChron] SF park improvement ballot measure benefits few. [Curbed] Macworld Keynote 2008 predictions form contest. Very nice. [Laughing Squid] The Chicken McNoggin and other
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a little tougher. This
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sleeping According to the Chron, Tapioca Ed, did, however, have the time to pen an essay for the Sunset Beacon (which has not yet put Jew's essay online, but you can read last month's)
SF News Incident at New Montgomery and Mission Today We saw your question in the Opera post about some commotion going down at New Montgomery and Mission this morning, and have the following information to pass along. --They arrested a shooter in
SF News Another Way That Google Owns Us Have you checked out the latest hack to Google Maps? Somehow they've added street views, which lets you take a look at an intersection (say, 16th and Mission) from a street-level camera. You
SF News Cool Web Site Alert First up is one from fashion/design site Jargol. It's one of those Google map type thingies that let’s people know where to go for the "coolest" independent shops. Yeah, most of
SF News Why We Lurve Nerds and Geeks But Michael Doeff emailed us a link to Geobloggers.com -- which is less practical but infinitely cooler. Some folks from the UK have figured out a way to add lattitude and longitude
