Lars Rasmussen about the development of Google Maps
Can you imagine a world without Google maps? Probably not? Google Maps has a big impact on location based services. Lars and Jens Rasmussen were behind the development of Google Maps. How did they do it?
One day you can have a brilliant idea. One of the hardest steps you will have to take is to realise the idea. You will probably agree that there are enough good ideas but many are stopped in the realisation. Especially within large corporation. To help you realises your great idea you might want to watch this short lecture from Lars Rasmussen. He explains how he and his brother developed their idea which finally became Google Maps. In the period they had their idea the technology to realize it wasn't yet available. still they continued on. And then there was Google.
For now Lars Rasmussen is involved in the realisation of of the promising Google Wave.
The most heard opinion was that: You can't make money out of maps