Going to Where?

Ol' Ed touched down on the BA flight (top deck !!) to reign once more over the underlings at the 'plex. Ed is here to watch the freetards (is this guy one of 'em? Ol' Ed thinks so. The beard gives it away) claim that music, maps and money should be free to everyone. Ol' Ed likes a bit of free love now and again but only Googlers get free money every other christmas. And only very good boys sit on Lergeys lap for the present.

Yes !! It's Where 2.0 !!

Google Drones #8823 and #4963 are keynoting. Ol' Ed will be at the bar sipping the lambrini and coke twattering about my observations over the next few days because that's right fans, ol' Ed is on the twitter with @FakeEdParsons !!

Mapping Party!

Without looking at any other mapping projects and how they work, and all on our own, using as many PhDs and MBAs as we could find hanging out at the infinite swimming pool... we've invented mapping parties !!

Map parties are where you get together for fun and map an area, have some food and maybe a lambrini and coke. Your chums go out mapping and enter the data in ol' Ed's Maps. We then show it to you with ads on top !!

It's amazing what we at Google produce with just the raw power of our minds and without learning from anyone else !! We love academia at google, we love your links because they are like citations in academic papers and they power our wondiferous search engine. But we at the 'plex don't need to do citations if we learn from other people because we don't learn from other people. We invent using mind energy in idea bubbles. Just look at Knol and Mapping Parties.

Sent from idea bubble #8832 using Mind Energy

Apple really fucked me on this one

The Steve Jobs wannabes think they can screw Uncle Ed. Can't use Ed's tiles due to licensing on some iPhone 3.0 apps !! "Now there is one catch -- bring your own maps. Due to licensing, we can't use those tiles in maps."

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Time to crank up ol' Ed's Map Maker and go medieval on TeleAtlas' asses !!

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Latitude breaks balls

You n00btards will never understand me !! The USS Google is on a maptastic voyage to crush all before us and one of my drones (#8872) just pointed out that Latitude doesn't just kill Burnt Out Eagle but a slew of other sites. Goodbye loopt. Goodbye whrrl. Goodbye WHERE...

Uncle Ed doesn't have the time to list them all. I've told Marissa that from now on we only launch products if they meet the following criteria:

• It's a cool idea !!
  
• We helped someone do it (e.g. they're using ol' Ed's maps)
• We can track them, usage, users, uptake... (e.g. they're using ol' Ed's maps)
• We invite them in to the 'plex, distract them with free ice cream and suck out all the useful IP they have.. .. and then mention we had those ideas all along !!
  
• We can kill at least 20 startups, not for profits, charities and cute little kittens who have built something similar

Ol' Ed calls this the 'platial model'. Watch out for more 'platial model' product launches from us soon !!

Sent using time compression waves from the future.

Down in flames

When you wake up in the morning you almost certainly think "how can Google help me build a better product." That or otherwise "where is my breakfast" or "some day I will get to sleep in." Well when ol' Ed wakes up, he thinks "how can I fuck Yahoo! sideways (and add value to todays geospatial ecosystem)."

Well today my geotards I can tell you we're fucking Yahoo! sideways with my new location service. This is an amazing service !!

The essenial point is that we know where you are at all times, because we'e tracking you. What Latitude does is make that available to you, the CIA, and anyone else we feel like. You, dear reader, might remember old discontinued services like Fire Eagle from the plane crash that is Yahoo! They have two or even three applications today.

My marketing campaign to crush those bozos is pretty simple. Free ice cream !! I have drone #5279 run developer events at Google London HQ. Yahoo! don't do that. In any case my geotards want to come and see a rocket ship with free ice cream, not a burning eagle in a plane crash.

We might steal the great ideas from the purple beast of Yahoo! but remember by geotards, we'd never do it to you !! We love you and your ideas !!

Google Earth 5.0!!!

Yes !!

It's here !!

Read all about the all-inspiring world crushing glory of my Earth product.

I have some issues I want to raise. Small things. May be missed by you but important to me.

• Why wasn't I told about the launch? I thought I was supposed to be on stage with Marissa? Damn Eric !!
• A lot of what you hear about 20% time just... look. The oceans was me, I took the Google Sub out a few times, we scanned crab and whale brains and got them to map it for us.
• The historic imagery... me too. I never get credit. If I was at the 'plex I know I'd get credit but it's like Siberia out here in London sometimes.
• Al Gore.. !! And they left me in London !! In the snow !!

Snow society meltdown

Uncle Ed likes snow when he is boarding on good powder, no doubt. Today my fellow mappers however, ol' Ed was almost snowed in Map Mansion by the drifts that have shut down blighty.

But not today!

Ol' Ed thinks ahead and I glide in to work on my Segway X2 ruggedized. This tech is shit hot and I was the first in the office today. I coordinated an emergency plan delta and we got choppers sent out to bring the rest of the brain trust to work. Rain or shine those maps must be up... because you freeloaders need them for your twitter snow maps. 

Help Israel remap Gaza

The world mourns the terrible loss of life in Gaza, and the freetards in their mums basement have even noticed there is an outside world. There is an appeal to help Israel remap Gaza. As the Israeli forces push deeper in to Gaza ol' Ed supposes they need maps.. or they could demolish everything and then build the roads according to what's in the freetard map?