Google: Enabling Stalkers, One Feature at a Time

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Posted on August 23, 2007 
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Google: “Starting today, Google Maps users can add a map to their website or blog just by copying & pasting a snippet of HTML. This new functionality enables Google Maps users to share and disseminate geographic information in the same way that YouTube users share videos. Bloggers and webmasters no longer need an API key or knowledge of Java Script to put a Google Map on their website or blog.”

I’m sure J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon will really appreciate this new feature once some bozo copies and pastes a snippet of HTML somewhere.

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3 Responses to “Google: Enabling Stalkers, One Feature at a Time”

  1. Literary Stalker on August 23rd, 2007 1:46 pm

    Good idea, Ed! Wouldn’t have occurred to me otherwise. LS

  2. Daniel on August 23rd, 2007 4:47 pm

    Just think of all the New Yorkers right now posting the location of the “best pizza/bagel in the City” to their blogs right now! How very generic.

    Potential for true creepiness here.

  3. Fred on August 23rd, 2007 10:18 pm

    Wait, J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon have websites?

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