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[G] Do you love K-POP?

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 09:26 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: Do you love K-POP?

Well, we know Will.i.am does after he called out the Korean girl group 2NE1 on YouTube earlier this year. If you are not familiar with K-POP, check out some of the top Korean music labels like YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainemnt, then come back between November 10 and 28 for your very own chance to be the next K-POP star.

MBC, the No. 2 TV network in Korea, is partnering with YouTube to search the world for the next big talent. Top Korean music labels have found audiences all over the globe watching their music videos and now it's your turn to do your own performance. Don't worry if you don't speak Korean; you can audition in any language.



Based on the video views and votes for your submission, you'll have the opportunity to be sent to Korea for a second audition on national TV. The final winner will be awarded KRW 300 million as well as a sponsorship from MBC to be debuted as the next K-POP star. For more details, visit www.youtube.com/MBCAudition.

Lois Kim, Head of Marketing & Communications, YouTube Korea, recently watched "Wonder Girls NOBODY US Debut Single HD MV."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/trDv_cLlh14/do-you-love-k-pop.html

[G] Regarding the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Google LatLong: Regarding the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Yesterday we became aware of a dispute that referenced the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua as depicted on Google Maps. This morning, after a discussion with the data supplier for this particular border (the U.S. Department of State), we determined that there was indeed an error in the compilation of the source data, by up to 2.7 kilometers. The U.S. Department of State has provided a corrected version and we are now working to update our maps.

Current, incorrect depiction of the San Juan River boundary

Unlike the image above of our current depiction, the corrected version will follow the east bank of the San Juan River going northward, nearly to the Caribbean. It will then turn eastward and follow the southern shoreline of a large lagoon, Laguna los Portillos. This depiction follows the demarcation laid out in the First Award of Arbitration of 1897, which affirmed the Cañas-Jerez Treaty of 1858.

It is our goal to provide the most accurate, up-to-date maps possible. Maps are created using a variety of data sources, and there are inevitably going to be errors in that data. We work hard to correct any errors as soon as we discover them.

Given the complexity of the issue, I thought that I'd take this opportunity to provide some additional historical context.

The dispute in this area goes back to at least the mid-19th century, and both the International Court of Justice and the United Nations have weighed in. The dispute mainly centers around control of the mouth of the San Juan River, and was recently reignited because of dredging activity in this location.

In 1888, U.S. President Grover Cleveland was called upon by Nicaragua and Costa Rica to arbitrate the dispute. That year, the New York Times published President Cleveland's decision. The 1888 Arbitration upheld the 1858 treaty and its terms.
The New York Times, 25 March, 1888

Then, in 1897, Cleveland sent Edward P. Alexander to do a more detailed Arbitration Award for this region. Alexander went into great detail on the San Juan river boundary and drew the map depicted below:

Map attached to the Sept. 30, 1897 Arbitration Award

Once our updates go live in Google Earth and Maps we will be depicting the border according to the most recent and definitive records available. But as we know, cartography is a complex undertaking, and borders are always changing. We remain committed to updating our maps as needed.

Posted by Charlie Hale, Geo Policy Analyst
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/11/regarding-boundary-between-costa-rica.html

[G] Imagery Update - Week of November 1st

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Google LatLong: Imagery Update - Week of November 1st


The Google Earth and Maps Imagery team has just released another extensive batch of aeriel and satellite images for your enjoyment! In honor of the upcoming U.S. holiday Veterans Day (November 11th), we'll take a look at a few military-themed museums.

Let's start with a wide-view of the naval ships on display at the Baltimore Maritime Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Historic ships that you can zoom in on and see close up in Google Earth or Maps include the last sail-only warship USS Constellation (lower left); the submarine USS Torsk (upper left) which sunk the last enemy ship in World War II; and the cutter USCGC Taney (upper right), the last ship still floating that fought during the Pearl Harbor attack.

Baltimore Maritime Museum in Baltimore, MD

Now that we've got our sea legs, let move sub-orbital and beyond at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Here we can see a restored Saturn V-1 "moon shot" test vehicle and the A-12 Oxcart "Blackbird" spy plane.

U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL

These are just a few examples of the many museums around the globe that are included in our latest imagery batch.

High Resolution Aerial Updates:
USA: Baltimore, Cedar Rapids, Huntsville, Long Island, Redding, Springfield (IL), St. Joseph (MO)
Austria: Schladming
Finland: Pori
Ireland: Athlone, Drogheda, Dundalk, Enniscorthy, Galway, Limerick, Monaghan, Tralee, Waterford,
Spain: Vasco

Countries receiving High Resolution Satellite Updates:
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, People's Republic of the Congo, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

These updates are currently only available in Google Earth, but they'll also be in Google Maps soon. To get a complete picture of where we updated imagery, download this KML for viewing in Google Earth.

Posted by Eric Kolb, Geo Data Strategist
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/11/imagery-update-week-of-november-1st.html

[G] Announcing Accepted Organizations for Google Code-in

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 09:57 AM PDT

Google Open Source Blog: Announcing Accepted Organizations for Google Code-in


We're pleased to announce that today we have chosen 20 open source organizations to participate as mentoring organizations in Google Code-in.

Here's a list of our participating organizations this year:

1. The Apertium Project
2. The Battle for Wesnoth
3. Debian Project
4. Dragonfly BSD
5. Drupal
6. GNOME
7. Haiku
8. KDE
9. LimeSurvey
10. MoinMoin
11. Mono Project
12. OSUOSL
13. Parrot Foundation and The Perl Foundation
14. Plone Foundation
15. RTEMS Project
16. Sahana Software Foundation
17. Tux4Kids
18. VideoLAN
19. WordPress
20. WorldForge

These organizations will be creating tasks for the student participants in the contest to work on and submit to earn prizes. We'll be having tasks from all 8 categories in our task tracker: code, documentation, outreach, quality assurance, research, training, translation, user interface.

We encourage you to sign up now if you would like to participate in the contest! Simply visit Melange and click on "Sign In." Log in or create a Google account, and then click on "Create Profile" on the left. Once you've done that you're ready to start claiming tasks on November 22!

By Carol Smith, Open Source Team
URL: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-accepted-organizations-for.html
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