Is Google Involved With iPhoto?

It seems that Google and Apple have been caught holding hands. Close onlookers noticed that it appears as if the two companies might be "working together to bring geotagging to iPhoto." Others feel that "collaboration" is far too strong a word.

Victor Mihailescu gathered some of the evidence of this connection. The first person to notice it, according to Mihailescu, was "a Mactelchat forum user which goes by the name of javester.'" This person "has been investigating the iPhoto code." I'll try leave the technical explanations to Mihailescu, but "inside the iPhoto app bundle," there was one key "called GPSMapURL which is preset to http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%f+%f." javester's discoveries didn't stop there, though. "A hidden button labeled Show' was also discovered," Mihailescu wrote, "and after some tinkering they got it working, and the video posted of it clearly shows the button accessing Google Maps and displaying a map with the location where the photo was taken." Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.