I feel sorry for the Google Street View pin. A dangly little yellow dude, picked up by millions of mouse cursors worldwide and unceremoniously dropped into locations across the planet, only to ...

There's a line in the movie Kicking and Screaming — the 1995, Noah Baumbach directed, postgrad coming-of-age film — where a character half-jokingly tells a friend, "I'm nostalgic for conversations I ...

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One man's hilarious tactic to immortalize himself online has left the internet in stitches this week. Google Street View was launched in 2007 in several cities around the United States and has since ...

When Google unleashed its fleet of camera-mounted Street View cars in 2007, they accidentally captured life’s strange, funny, poetic, sometimes brutal moments. Canadian internet artist Jon Rafman then ...

An Australian laborer has explained the real story behind a viral Google Maps image that caught him in an apparent brawl outside his workshop. Kenny Riley went viral after owning up to the image, ...

Since its launch in 2007, Google Street View has given us freeze-frames of life around the world–the mundane, the funny, the strange (video), and of course, the disastrous. As if playing a Web 2.0 ...