Google Earth's Social Network, Complete with Avatars?

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:56 AM EDT

Article Source: Mashable!

Is Google using Arizona State University students to test out a new social network that could be part of Google Earth?

Rumor has it that several students have been granted the opportunity to test a new product that will be launched by a major Internet company later this year.

The application for participation asks students if they're interested in social networking, 3D modeling and video games. As the project's current code name is "My World" with a globe logo, some have conjectured that this signals involvement from Google Earth.

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Spuds Stuff

A Google virtual world. Now that would be interesting. Watch out Second Life, Google is going to do something even better.

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#1 - Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:44 PM EDT

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Mykola Bilokonsky

This might actually be the most exciting thing I can think of right now. I actually wanted to create this until people reminded me that I have very little coding experience and that all the major sites are working on geocoding as we speak... Sign me up and goodbye real world.

William Gibson says that cyberspace is "everting" which I think is a pretty neat idea. Real reality and cyber reality overlapping with an infinite overlay...neato!

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#2 - Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:34 PM EDT

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