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Re: Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful

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Interestingly, Paris is where G+ is more used!

It's just a map of people who have added themselves, it has little if nothing to do with the actual distribution of G+ users. The project was created by three people in Paris which explains why it's the leader.

Re: Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful

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post #4
post #2

Interestingly, Paris is where G+ is more used!

It's just a map of people who have added themselves, it has little if nothing to do with the actual distribution of G+ users. The project was created by three people in Paris which explains why it's the leader.

Looks like there are only a few thousand people. If HN'ers add themselves, we'll probably skew it. In fact, it might become of a HN Globe.

Re: Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful

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this is actually like https://mozillademos.org/demos/globetweeter/demo.html which has been released a few month ago

That's not quite as polished and visually stunning, though.

maybe it doesn't look as visually impressive, but actually in that twitter globe all the country borders are vector mapped.. whereas the google+ one is just a bitmap map of the world. Either way I'm liking that there are more of these WebGL 3D apps popping up.
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