[...] stefan.geens@gmail.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptNow you can make Google Maps your maps. You can create personalized, annotated maps, mark your favorite places on the map, draw lines and shapes to highlight paths, add your own text, photos, and videos. You can then share your map with … [...]

[...] Google launched “My Maps” this week and it seems to be all over the place. It’s a fun, addictive little toy; a nice addition to their already pretty awesome map system. Brady Forrest called it “a direct shot across the bow of sites like Platial and Frappr” — and while I don’t necessarily agree with the aggressive connotations of the “direct shot” part, he does hit it with the bit about geo-indexing individual web sites. That’s pretty rad. (Don’t bother with the comments. Nothing of value there.) It’ll definitely be interesting to see how this grows and layers it adds to Google’s model (esp. w/r/t/ local search…) [...]