{"id":12404,"date":"2010-09-09T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/see-the-world-with-globe-genie\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:10:42","slug":"see-the-world-with-globe-genie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/see-the-world-with-globe-genie\/","title":{"rendered":"See the world with Globe Genie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got a few minutes to kill, check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/~jmcmicha\/www\/globegenie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Globe Genie<\/a><\/strong>, a cool Google Street View hack that&#8217;s been described as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chatroulette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ChatRoulette<\/a> for Google Maps &#8211; but with less gratuitous nudity!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/fibnal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The five continents that have Google Street View so far &#8211; <strong>Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe<\/strong> and <strong>North America<\/strong> &#8211;<strong> <\/strong>are all available. Pick the ones you want include in the search and press <strong>Shuffle<\/strong>. Before you know it, you&#8217;ll be whisked away to a totally random location corner of the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so it might not change your life, but if you&#8217;re a travel nerd, it&#8217;s definitely fun. Give it a try <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/~jmcmicha\/www\/globegenie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got a few minutes to kill, check out Globe Genie, a cool Google Street View hack that&#8217;s been described as ChatRoulette for Google Maps &#8211; but with less gratuitous nudity! The five continents that have Google Street View so far &#8211; Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America &#8211; are all available. Pick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/see-the-world-with-globe-genie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;See the world with Globe Genie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334763,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions\/334763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}