Google Talk. Google Spreadsheet. Google Suggest. Google SDK. Google Mail. Google Search. Google Stocks. Google Ads. Google Instant Noodles. Google Pictures. Google Groups. Google Condoms. Google Maps. Google Notebook. Google Ride.
Google Earth.
I don't know about you but am I the only one noticing that for every existing site type we have on the net (and possibly offline too) , it seems that Google has a version for it? They remind me of SM Bonus, the commodity that's supposed to be the generic equivalent to common grocery items raging from rice to plastic spoons to sardines to nuclear reactors.
Google. What started out as a Brainchild of a bunch of nerds in a basement with a computer has become a multimillion dollar thinktank factory conglomerate that has produced numerous products that's taking the computing world by storm. I'm not against anything that's happening though, since there's not much I can complain about google's services - freeloaders can't be choosy. It's not like they're whoring out their products like Microsoft - right? Right?
So, I was checking what other services they had and found probably one their most interesting projects yet. What is it, you ask?
It's called Google Sketch Up. Or as I would personally want to call it - Google Vandals.
So what is Google Sketch Up?
Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you've built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. - SketchUp.com
Simply put, it's a layman's alternative to the murerously complicated 3d graphics modelling programs like Maya and 3DStudio Max (used to create 3d models for games and films like Monster's Inc., Cars, Advent Children, and Tarzan X - I know, they all cant be real.)
Google Sketch Up is simple - if not too simple. Even the Counterstrike Map maker called Worldcraft has more features. To technical people in the know, Sketchup is more like a Little Tykes Plastic Car - fun to play with, but professionally useless.
But what makes it interesting? Two words: GOOGLE EARTH. Google Earth, in case they havent included it in the cityguide found in your mountain, is a program that shows a satellite image of the whole world with dead accuracy, even my house is half an inch in length and width at maximum zoom.Whatever you create in Sketchup, you can put in the commercial world's currently most accurate map imaging system for all people to see. Can you see it now? Can. You. See. IT?!
Imagine placing symbolic buildings inside the map system. People would go see Malacañang Palace and see a rundown shack with demonstrators outside - in full 3D. Anybody can place their models anywhere - free for all. Or check your house to see the most amazing palace on the planet. Or a very large 3D Swastika on top of your racist neighbor's house.
It'll be like the frontier days of West America again.
Except the vandals would replace the cowboys in the shooting spree.
It's good technology though, and I myself enjoy making model houses. It's like Lego, except you dont have to convince your playmate that some of the bricks are edible. Still I wonder, what will happen if people get to figuring out evil ways to use this technology...
Only consolation we have is that thinking higher than that of your typical internet chimpanzee (read: online retard) is required to operate such a program.
And that's more than enough deterrent for now.
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