Folium: Listen to Endangered Indigenous Languages From Around the World via Google Earth

… Connect Google Earth: Listen to Endangered Indigenous Languages From Around the World … English is the universal language of…everything, right? : If you are a native English speaker, have you ever considered the possibility of the English language going extinct? Probably not, because English is the most spoken language in the world! English has been […]

Folium: Google expands Google Street view to Brazil and Mexican Ruins via Engadget

Folium: Google expands Google Street view to Brazil and Mexican Ruins via Engadget This isn’t the first time we’ve covered improvements to Google Street View in Folium, and I have the feeling that it definitely won’t be the last. However… I consider this a good thing. Bring on the future of travel! (Or at least […]

Folium: Visit The Amazon River With Google Street View via The Official Google Blog

Folium: Visit The Amazon River With Google Street View! Many people around the world know that you can use Google Maps to explore cities, streets, and neighborhoods. But in addition to the urban jungle, did you know the Google has spent time mapping the real jungle as well? Using various pieces of camera equipment, specifically […]

Folium: The Inner Workings of Google Translate via Engadget.com

Google gives us some insight on the inner workings of Google Translate via Engadget You darn kids with your iPods and your Facebooks and the Twitters … All this technology doesn’t grow on trees y’know! Did you know that Google can translate stuff? And that they’re pretty darned good at it too! In fact, Google […]

Folium: The Get More Out of Google Infographic Summarizes Online Research Tricks for Students via Lifehacker.com

The Get More Out of Google Infographic Summarizes Online Research Tricks for Students via Lifehacker.com The people over at HackCollege put together a great infographic detailing the finer points of Googling. Normally, most academics shudder at the thought of students blindly Googling topics, but this guide teaches us how Google is a far more powerful […]

Folium: BBC News – Digital tools ‘to save languages’

Folium: Digital Tools To Save Languages Languages are living things. They live, they adapt, and they change at a constant pace. Languages also die, and the danger in letting languages die is the perspective that dies with it. I’ve mentioned how language is a perspective on life and how our words shape how we shape […]