Finance and Technology In Your Twenties
Google Maps has just added a new (beta) option to change your directions from driving to walking. After entering your starting and ending points, you can now click a button that changes them to walking directions. It’ll cool to see how they expand this feature in the future. It appears that they estimate your walking speed per mile at 19 minutes.
gMaps also added a relatively scary warning telling you to “use caution when walking in unfamilar areas” but we’ll see how long that stays there.
Facebook is planning on launching its new design within the next week. Some of you will get to see it before others as they slowly roll it out. However, you can all check out how your profile will look in advance.
First, log into facebook normally. Then, in the address bar, type http://www.new.facebook.com/ exactly like it looks and hit enter.
What do you think? Personally, I think it looks great…the new wall will take a bit to get used to but makes more sense. This is going to be rough for the spread of applications as not too many people are going to check out the “boxes” page every time but maybe that’s a good thing.
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