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Lars from Google in the Nightlife

22 September 2009

Listen and download: MP3

Brother Lars and Jens Rasmussen are the brains behind the now ubiquitous online navigation system Google Maps. Their mapping technology company, Where 2 Technologies, was bought by Google in 2004 and they were brought into the fold to turn their ideas into what we now know as Google Maps.  Soon they were thinking of new ideas to pursue, and are now following Jens’ suggestion to create a new way to communicate online.   That tool, developed in Sydney, is called Google Wave.  It was unveiled earlier this year and will be opened up to a select few users at the end of the month.

Lars Rasmussen joined Tony Delroy and Pall Wallbank in ABC Local Radio’s Nightlife program on Thursday last week. He fielded calls from listeners and spoke at length about the development of Google Maps and gave some fresh insights into Google Wave.

I posted on twitter that this interview was happening and got some requests to hear it.  Tony and his team were kind enough to allow me to post an edited highlights of the program which you can hear via the MP3 link above.

The video Lars mentions toward the 17 minute mark is below. Be warned, it goes for over an hour and there’s some Google Kool-aid being passed around at times:

And ABC Fora featured a video with Lars Rasmussen in July which you can find here or watch below: