I’m sure that everyone in the world has tried Google Maps and loved to zoom in on streets to see their car on their driveway. But what if you could do that to photographs?

No, I’m not talking about normal photos of people posing. I mean of panoramas, such as of a group of skyscrapers. With people inside.

Well, apparently it’s all doable, thanks to Gigapixelphotography.com. They’ve somehow managed to take a really high resolution shot of some buildings in Vancouver, put it onto a page powered by Flickr and allowed people to zoom around it in the vain hope of seeing someone in a window wearing just a towel.
It seems to be working in a similar way to Google Maps, by making the image into tiles at various levels of detail and then only loading those that are needed. I dread to think what the full size image’s resolution and file size would be.

Sadly, it’s down thanks to a massive audience, but I would guess it will be up again once the people at Digg have left it alone…

[Via Digg]

As someone that really should be on the cutting edge of technology, it seems strange, but after a long and painful battle with my conscience, I have something to admit.

It’s taken me a while, but I am now a user of Twitter.

I know, I’m late to the party again, but hear me out.
When this microblogging thing came out, I just couldn’t understand the appeal of it at all. Why go from long and mostly informative communications, to short and extremely to the point posts with little or no detail added to make it interesting?
Cue attempting to use Pownce (I’m a closet Kevin Rose fan, sorrry). Unforunately the fairly limiting client given for usage didn’t help things along. There was little in alternative client development, so an Adobe Air client was what I had to put up with. And I just didn’t post much in that time.
Now, Pownce is in the coffin and lies in the cemetry after the project got wound up, and Twitter is the all-singing, all-dancing media darling being used by everyone, their zombie pets and Oprah.

I have already opened an account, and in the process have started to slowly “follow” people. Such as Stephen Fry, Kevin Rose, Brian Brushwood and, amazingly, Paul Daniels.

Over time I hope to be able to learn how to effectively use Twitter in a more full capacity than I am right now, maybe even by using my phone instead of waiting until I get to a PC, but for the moment would you mind Following Me?