Two more recent Google-related items:

• North Oaks, a rather xenophobic town in Minnesota — the streets are privately owned — has asked Google to remove it from Street View; Google has complied with the town’s request. Google’s gotten into trouble for its cameras trespassing on private property; the twist here is that the whole town is private property.
• The Google Maps API Blog has been replaced by the Google Geo Developers Blog, to reflect the company’s larger scope.