I really like Google Map Video. It’s like being able to travel anywhere virtually. So amazing. I love it! Go play with it.

It seems now on Bing Maps, there’s a new application called Local Events which allows you to search for what’s happening around you. You can sort by popularity or date. It lets you filter the search by categories such as music, sports, performing arts, food & dining, and fairs & festivals.

You can see what’s around you on Google Local by using your location as the query:  Go to Google.com on your iPhone and click “Near me now.”
What it does:
1. ”Near me now”  makes it fast and easy to find out more about places around you.
2. Makes searching for popular categories of nearby places really simple.
Personally, I don’t see why I can’t just go to Google Maps and search for what I want. Sure this is a quick and simple interface, but the Map app on the iPhone works so well already. I imagine …

Google is releasing an updated version of Travel Tours that provides Walking Directions.
Six months ago, Google launched City Tours (example of one for London) on Google Labs to allow you to customise your own city tours. All you have to do is type in the name of a city, customise the landmarks you want to see, and you’ll get a walking itinerary.

Google knows the top sights in many cities around the world and been providing directions on Google Maps for years, this will be a great feature that Travel2.0m users can …