January 30, 2008

Google Maps Meets “Lost”

by Christine Huang

We came upon this video on NewTeeVee, not sure how a Google Maps tutorial made it to their front page. Thankfully, we clicked on it and were pleasantly surprised. The funny, faux-horror short comes from the Vacationeers Series, which until this video, was pretty off the radar. But this cute take on Google = Big Brother paranoia has already seen more than half a million hits since its debut a week ago. Watch it below:

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One Response to “Google Maps Meets “Lost””

  1. Piers Fawkes
    Posted from: 208.105.19.172

    January 31st, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Great post

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