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Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide virtual visits of several World Heritage sites

Google Streetview tricycle in front of UNESCO headquarter, Paris (03/12/2009) © UNESCO / Michel Ravassard

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Sites of outstanding universal value inscribed on the World Heritage List - the Palace of Versailles in France, the historic centre of Prague in the Czech Republic and the old town of Cáceres in Spain, for example - can now be explored online by internet users around the world, thanks to an alliance signed by UNESCO and the international corporation Google.The agreement makes it possible for internet users to visit 19* of the 890 World Heritage properties viaGoogle's Street View interface. All the other sites on the List will be shown on the Google Earth and Google Maps interfaces.

The 19 sites are located in Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Street View provides nearly spherical panoramic (360° horizontal and 290° vertical) views taken by cameras mounted on vehicles. Once obtained, these images are overlaid on Google Maps' satellite views - the process can take several months. When the specially-equipped cars cannot reach sites to be photographed, tricycles are used.

"The alliance with Google makes it possible to offer virtual visits of the sites to everyone, to increase awareness and to encourage participation in the preservation of these treasures," said UNESCO's Director-General, Irina Bokova.

"Cultural and natural heritage sites are an irreplaceable source of inspiration and fascination. This is an exciting project and we're thrilled to be working with UNESCO to make more World Heritage sites universally accessible and useful to all," said Carlo d'Asaro, Google's Vice-President for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

At UNESCO's suggestion, Google will soon be visiting and photographing other sites on the List. The focus is on harder-to-access sites, which will be photographed with the permission of site managers. They can then be appreciated by millions of people who might never have the opportunity to visit them otherwise. The sites are located notably in South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the Netherlands.

In future, Google and UNESCO will also work together to provide online access, via Google Maps, YouTube and Google Earth, to maps, texts and videos pertaining to UNESCO's Biosphere Reserves, to documentary heritage inscribed on the Memory of the World Register and to endangered languages.

*Spain: Santiago de Compostela (Old Town); Old Town of Cáceres; Historic Walled Town of Cuenca; Old City of Salamanca; Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches; Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct; Historic City of Toledo France: Palace and Park of Versailles; Paris, Banks of the Seine Italy: Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata; Historic Centre of Siena; Historic Centre of Urbino; Historic Centre of San Gimignano Netherlands: Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout Czech Republic: Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc; Historic Centre of Český Krumlov; Historic Centre of Prague United Kingdom: Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

About UNESCO:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 and it has 193 Member States. One of its main mandates is to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is the goal of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, an international treaty adopted by UNESCO in 1972.

About Google:
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Podcasting

What You Need to Make Your Own Podcast

By Corey Deitz, About.com Guide to Radio

So, you're thinking about creating your own podcast. Maybe you have a business and want to promote a product or you have a hobby and want to share your knowledge with the world. Maybe you're the next great talk show host - only no one knows it yet. Where do you start when you want to start? Right here - with this list of clearly laid out topics to answer your questions how why and how to start your own podcast and what to do with it after you're up and running.

What is a Podcast and How is it Different from Internet Radio

Dave and Geri, radio personalities and podcasters

A podcast is a simpler way to put your audio up on the Internet for the world to hear. I'm often asked by visitors to this site how to start an Internet radio station. But, usually they are over-thinking the solution needed to meet their objective. Offering audio on the Internet just keeps getting easier - and podcasts are so much easier than starting an Internet radio station. All the links below lead to articles and information that has been created to help you understand podcasting and make decisions about creating your own.

Why Would I Want to Create My Own Podcast?

There are a lot of great reasons to create a podcast from just having fun to making a profit. I'll give you some things to think about.

What Kind of Hardware and Software do I Need

Blue Microphone's Snowball USB Microphone

Whether you plan to use a third-party to distribute your podcast or your own website, you will still need some basic tools to create each your audio. You can start out small and inexpensive or invest big bucks in a sweet rig. Ultimately, it depends on what level of audio quality you are willing to live with.

Easy Podcasting With a Small Learning Curve

Most people want results and you don't care how the sausage is made, so to speak. There's nothing wrong with that. When podcasting first began, the early adopters were required to learn some coding in order to distribute their podcasts. Well, that changed rather quickly. Now, you can do the fun, creative part and leave the rest to someone else.

Helpful Software, Hardware, and Tips for Podcasting

The basics are good but often after mastering them, we look to accentuate and accessorize our projects. Podcasting is no different. Here are some tools and ideas to make it better and more fun.

The Legal Stuff About Podcasting

The two biggest legal aspects that needs to be understood and respected by podcasters are music royalties and the use of copyrighted music and other material. Before you start putting together your podcast, familiarize yourself with your rights and how to respect the rights of others.

How to Market Your Podcast

If you build it, they will come. Well, sort of. If you want more people than just your immediate family hearing your podcasts then consider promoting it in traditional and non-traditional ways. Marketing your podcast can pay off in more listeners and even more opportunities for you.

Podcasting Success Stories

Podcasting started as a quirky new way to distribute audio throughout the Internet. After an initial love affair with the public it settled into a methodology which could inexpensively allow anyone to share their information - whatever that might be. Now, hobbyists, current and former radio professionals, and people from all walks of life podcast. Some of been very successfull - even to their own surprise!

Online Tools and Software For Creating Podcast Feeds and Posts

You don't have to learn what RSS is or any code to create your own podcast. There are websites and software designed to help you assemble your podcast, host your files, and help distribute it. It's the easiest way to get your podcast out to the world. If you can click a mouse, you can create a podcast.

Create With PodcastSPOTS

TalkShoe Says It Will Pay You to Create Your Own Podcasts

TalkShoe is a website that allows anyone to become the host of their own Internet talk show. Uses include live talk shows, discussion groups, podcasts, conferences and friends and family chats. In addition, the website claims it's ready to pay you, too. Read more.

Potential Podcasters: Just Create The Audio and Leave The Coding to These Guys - MyRSSCreator.com Writes RSS For You

If you're thinking of creating your own podcast but you're a little hesitant because even though you know how to create your audio, you're not too sure of that "RSS" stuff. Well, good news: MyRSSCreator.com takes the hassle out of the geeky part, leaving you to create that great radio show you've always wanted to share with the world. Read the review.

PodOmatic Brings Podcast Creation and More to the Masses

PodOmatic is a Podcasting portal which enables anyone to create, mix, host, search, share, and grab podcasts and mp3s. No experience or particular skills required, either!

BlogMatrix Introduces Free Browser-Based Solution For Podcasting

If you're itching to podcast but you still aren't quite up-to-speed on the technical end of it, good news: you don't have to be. BlogMatrix.com has introduced a browser-based solution which handles the geeky stuff automatically. Read more.

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10 Brilliant Online Tools For Increasing Your Productivity

I’m always amazed at some of the free tools that are available online and how much they increase your business productivity either as an organization or as an individual and with that in mind I wanted to share 10 of the best tools that I use pretty much every single day. Most of these tools are free although some will have premium upgrades that might suck you in as you start to become more dependent on them and want to unlock more features. One thing that is certain though is that using any single one of these tools will vastly improve the productivity of your business going forward. Here are my top 10 online productivity tools.

Evernote

The problem with the web is that we consume so much content now on a daily basis that it can be hard to remember all the best stuff but luckily Evernote solves that problem in some style. I’ll let the video do the talking and as soon as you download and install this tool you’ll wonder how you lived without it up until now… Another very useful alternative is SimpleNote.

Rapportive

We reported on Rapportive before anyone else and we’re proud of it because it’s a superb tool. Basically this little browser plugin lets you see more contact details and social network profiles for the people you talk to via email every day. The aim of the plugin is for you to make deeper connections with some of the people you email every single day. Where it can grab the information it will automatically pull in Twitter, Linkedin and other social profiles so as you are only 1 click away from connecting.

Remember The Milk

There are 100s of task managers and list apps on the web and on mobile devices but this is the one that works best for me. It allows me to items to my “to-do” lists in the easiest manner possible and I can access those lists from pretty much anywhere. Super simple to use and the fact that it has so few features and bells and whistles is actually a positive for me because it does exactly what I want it to do. I have passed 1000s of tasks through Remember The Milk over the last couple of years.

Yammer

We have been using this for a while and it can best be described as a private Twitter for business. It allows you to communicate in a closed environment and share files. It won’t replace email for your business but it is useful for cutting down large amounts of group emails and sharing links and files in an effective manner. Another reputable app SocialCast.

Dreaminder

We all make goals and have dreams for the future with our business that we often forget or just push to one side. This tool is not fancy or well designed but it does the job of reminding you of the dreams you had in the past. Basically you write yourself a message, pick a date when you want that message to happen by and then dreaminder sends you that dream in the future and you can see if you have made it or not. I suppose this doesn’t just have to be used for business but you should try it because you’ll be surprised just how quick you forget your dreams and let them slip!

Skype Screen Sharing

This is a tool that I use on a daily basis and has been essential in eliminating the usual phone calls where clients try to describe things on their screen and you have no idea what they are talking about. Once logged in to Skype you simply click the share screen button and you are able to see either the whole screen of the person you are talking to or the portion of the screen that they select. An incredibly simple yet highly effective tool that cuts down on messy feedback and makes you far more efficient especially if your business is online.

Harvest

There are lots of things that you can buy more of but the one most important commodity that none of us have enough of is…time. Harvest is a neat little app which helps you manage your time and improve how your entire business uses it’s time. There are a bunch of other features in there as well like accounting and invoices but this really is best for keeping track of time, an important asset!

Mystickies

This simple little app essentially lets you place little stickies all over the web to remind you of stuff when you get back there at a later date. You can write messages for yourself and they’ll appear next time you navigate back to that page. Simple and impressive tool.

Google Apps

I tried to leave this one off the list because it is so obvious and so many people know it already but if you are not using Google docs yet then your company is simple worse off than people who are using it and that is a fact. Collaboration, fantastic email, shared calendars and tons of other online features make this the most essential tool that we use in our business today. If you have not checked it out before now you really should immediately.

Grooveshark

You might be wondering why there is a music app on here but I am of the opinion that every office should have music and that it improves productivity. I use Spotifymostly myself but I know thats not available to you all so my other music app of choice would be Grooveshark. Pretty much has every song under the sun and allows you to make great play lists etc and the best part about it is that it is free to use.

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