Have you ever wanted to make a map in Google Maps? Maybe put your friends houses on a map and share it? Or maybe even add a map to your blog and let visitors type in their locations and then display the map of all your visitors? Well you can!

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View the synth. Do I really need to say how cool that is? It’s not perfect, only 87% synthy. But I took 141 pictures to make it. “Synthy” basically means how well the pictures match together. So out of that 141 pictures there are a few that don’t really match anything at all so they’re kind of left out of the synth view. Photosynth was developed by Microsoft Live Labs. I’d go to the webset and just look at all the cool things you can do with this. There are some stipulations on how you can use it (it’s free if you leave everything as public, but you get limited when you make things private), but it’s definitely worth trying.