The UK launch of Google Earth Outreach featured Sir David Attenborough, Amazonian Chief Almir Surui, Jon Snow and Google's Lorraine Twohill and Rebecca Moore. The session covers the power of technology to address and begin to solve global issues like the environment and climate change in addition to the importance of global knowledge exchange.
Sir David Attenborough speaks about the power of technology in empowering communities with knowledge and broadening the reach of environmental causes through mapping technology at the launch of Google Earth Outreach in London on 10th April, 2008.
Kevin Millikin discusses Google Chrome with a particular emphasis on V8, the JS engine, as well as the challenges of implementing JS, how V8 works, and the future direction of V8.
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Now you can change customise your driving directions on Google Maps by simply dragging & dropping the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, avoid highways, or add multiple stops on your way.
Dion Almaer, co-founder of Ajaxian.com, discusses the latest developments, including multithreaded JavaScript technology-powered UIs, robust offline storage, choosing the right Ajax/JavaScript technology framework, Ajax outside of the browser, and more.
Jean Laurent Wotton provides an easy hands-on session to discover the possibilities of the YouTube API. Learn how to: query through the millions of videos, retrieve video information, use the chromeless player, control the videos through javascript, etc.. This session is intended for developers who are new to the You Tube API.
Amazonian Chief Almir Surui speaks about the devastation his tribe has faced from deforestation and how he uses Google Earth to highlight the plight of his tribe to save their territory.
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