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You may know a lot about Google Maps Street view, but you might not know everything there is to do with it. Perhaps you don't know much at all. Either way, Google has set up a new site with the goal of making sure everyone who wants to know has access to all of the information that they need regarding Street View. This includes information on privacy, how to use it, where it is available, and some behind the scenes material about how they gather the imagery. The Street View resource is located here.

As I like to do when a post involves some ‘creative thinking’ I am warning you on this one. TechCrunch is ‘reporting’ the Wall Street Journal’s possible attempt at creating a social community (WSJ Connnect) that could compete with the LinkedIn set. I realize that outside of the Microsoft-Yahoo nuptials there has been little to discuss in the online marketing space as of late.

Sooner, rather than later, you may be able to drop a certain orange-yellow man onto a map of Germany and then look at the scenery as if you were standing on some of the country's highways and roads.  It appears that Google and Germany have finally come to an agreement over Google Street View. 

Google has announced it is making additional privacy modifications to its Street View project in Europe. Google says it is continuing to work with the Article 29 Working Party, which brings together representatives from all 27 European Data Protection Authorities. It is complying with European authorities request to provide advance notice to the public about the Street View project before driving in a new country. The Article 29 Working Party has requested that Google set a time limit on how long it retains unblurred photos of panoramas in Street View.

We've seen newspaper publishers forbid employees from accessing social networks before. The Wall Street Journal is not restricting access, but they are restricting how social networks are used by their employees.

The Wall Street Journal Online will reportedly be launching a micropayment model for content this fall. Some other news publications appear to see this is a brilliant move, but asking people to pay for content on the web will draw its share of skepticism. WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson says, "It's a payments system -- once we have your details we will be able to charge you according to what you read, in particular, a high price for specialist material."

Here's a nice bit of news for anyone either planning a vacation or, due to the economy, canceling all trips farther than 15 miles from your home: Street View spread again this morning.  Imagery's now available for 25 cities in the UK and the Netherlands, and the service's coverage of France, Italy, and Spain has been expanded, too.

Google has introduced a new feature for Street View on Google Maps. This allows users to submit their own photos for places Street View has on display.