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Sounds cool! I like Cnet’s take on Google’s new Chrome Browser and the need for more feature tweaks. 10 things we’d like to see in Chrome “So far we’re pretty smitten with Google’s Chrome. It’s certainly not without its faults, but for version 1.0 of a browser it’s pretty sharp.

Google Earth now lets you send “virtual postcard” to your friends and family. So open up Google Earth, search for the location, find your favorite view, and you’re ready to send a virtual postcard. In this example, we captured the best view of the Eiffel Tower, look at the screenshot: There are

With even more hurricanes on the way, Google has added a “Hurricane Season 2008” folder to Google Earth. Previously: Post-Gustav Imagery; Mapping Hurricane Gustav.

Matt Amato at Analytical Graphics has created a network link that converts USSTRATCOM data (active and inactive satellites, debris and rocket bodies) into a KMZ network link for observation in Google Earth: In the above view, debris and rocket bodies are turned off; active satellites are in green and inactive in gray.

Matt Amato at Analytical Graphics (AGI) has posted a KML file that allows users to use Google Earth to visualize the 13,000 space objects that USSTRATCOM tracks. The post was picked up today by SlashDot. There’s an overwhelming amount of objects here that gives a good sense of the amount of sensors and satellites in orbit.

While I've been running around this week preparing my boat for a possible strike from a tropical storm, Google has been busy making several posts this week on Google Earth on the Google LatLong Blog. This week there have ve been a number of Google Earth focused posts.

MSF has reached the flood affected regions in Bihar state and reports back from the frontlines: An emergency relief team from the humanitarian aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has reached the areas worst affected by the flooding in Bihar State, India.

The Wii Balance Board sat alongside dozens of pieces of cutting edge technlogy this week in Berlin, as German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence exhibited it as part of their research at the IFA consumer electronics show.

Google LatLong blog relaunches Global Awareness layers, the “Altas of Our Changing Environment” by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This Google Earth layer now showcases 187 sites around the world with a special emphasis on environmental change in Africa over the past few decades.

Rear-projection may be deader than dead as far as the biggies are concerned, but the folks at nLighten are intent to squeeze a bit more life out of these 72-inch 1080p DLP sets by sticking an infrared camera inside next to the light source that detects cursor points from an IR-tipped pen, allowing for a simple (no multitouch) touchscreen interface.