Google Maps Street View can lead you on a voyeuristic journey of discovery. Streetviewr is currently listing 2,362 funny, weird or dramatic Street View images.

During a developer conference today, Google released a new plugin that allows Google Earth to be embedded into a browser. The plugin will allow developers to create mashups using imagery from Google Earth (and Google Sky) and will also allow existing Google Maps mashups to be converted using just one line of code.

Here’s a video showing the plugin in action.

The plugin is currently available for IE6, IE7 and Firefox 2 on Windows. [via]

Yesterday Google Maps announced a new feature that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps; clickable, draggable, and zoomable.

Go to Google Maps and pull up the map you want to embed. Then click ‘Link to this page’ in the top right-hand corner. Copy the text that you see in the second box. Paste that text into your blog editor or into the HTML of your webpage.The Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge.

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