{"id":559,"date":"2005-08-26T08:13:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T13:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studytools.psych.und.nodak.edu\/wordpress\/?p=559"},"modified":"2005-08-26T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T19:04:37","slug":"fargo-at-street-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/26\/fargo-at-street-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Fargo at Street Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

The battle for visits among Internet destination sites appears to be heating up and each seems to be integrating new services. Often these new services seem a bit removed from the original mission of the site.<\/p>\n

In keeping up with an interest in what I would call “realistic maps” (e.g., images from space)(BBC analysis<\/a>), Amazon has purchased a company (maps.a9<\/a>) that provide “street level” views of selected cities. I suggest you locate a city you are familiar with and see what you can recognize.<\/p>\n

One blogger<\/a> described the site in the following fashion:<\/p>\n

\nThere are a couple dozen cities here containing most of the usual suspects for major citydom — Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Miami, Fargo — Fargo??! Pick a city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Be careful now – Fargo is a major city to those of us who live in North Dakota. Uff-da, don’t you know.<\/p>\n

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The battle for visits among Internet destination sites appears to be heating up and each seems to be integrating new services. Often these new services seem a bit removed from the original mission of the site. In keeping up with an interest in what I would call “realistic maps” (e.g., images from space)(BBC analysis), Amazon … Continue reading Fargo at Street Level<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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