Google Maps Street View

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Google Maps offers a wide range of features. If you are searching for a hotel, Google Maps will tell you where they are located. If you are unfamiliar with an address is, just type it in Google Maps and it will gladly aid you. If you want to know how the environment of location B looks like, Google Maps’ Street View will show you what it looks like.

UseITM Metamorphosis

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UseITM underwent a dramatic metamorphosis today; going from "Ah, my eyes!" to "Look at all those pretty colors..".

Many changes have been applied, tweaks have been made, posts have been beautified, and some other small stuff.

No Three Strikes policy in the Netherlands!

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You may or may not know that in 2009 France accepted a so-called Three Strikes policy in an attempt to stop “illegal downloading” of copyrighted material. The official name of this initiative is Graduated Response. In general, this anti-piracy measure holds that users who are caught downloading pirated content will receive a warning letter from their ISP (Internet Service Provider). If you continue to infringe copyrights online after two warnings, your internet connection will be terminated and it can even result in litigation.

Tilburg University recruiting on Facebook

Source: Tilburg University

Tilburg University decided to recruit Master Service Engineering students by campaigning on Facebook! The universities of Stuttgart and Crete are joining in on the campaign “Hello World” as well. The reason for doing so is because they believe that this target group is usually found on online social networks.

The State of The Internet

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The following video by JESS3 shows you the state of the internet in an amusing and cleverly designed way. The animator shares with us some fun facts like the number of Zombie computers or what social network is popular in which country. It really gives us an insight on how immense the internet truly is.