Been over this before and I always suspected that Google might kludge a Second Life style virtual world on top of Google Earth (I mean, if they can do a flight simulator, then why not?) But it seems like people are still going about this the wrong way (in my opinion). The “killer app” that Google is sitting on is not a wonky 3D social network as suggested in the Ars Technica article above, but a perfect marriage of GPS & KML (the Google Earth markup language) in a portable device. Let’s hope they get the gPhone right and then we can all finally know where we’re at, where we’re going and where to get a burrito along the way. And then we’ll get world peace. C’mon people… It’s what Stephen Fry would want!
dammit stephen fry. turn straight and marry me.