Google seems to be on the roll buying companies left and right this week, first Writely and now Sketchup. If you haven’t heard of sketchup yet; it’s time to get acquianted.

Sktechup is a 3D sketching software designed to make 3D graphics creation insanely easy, even for the novice user. I still haven’t used my trial version properly; in which case this would have became a review. But from the first impressions, this tool is much easier and spontaneous than anything I’ve used in the past, although it doesn’t really compare to Autocad.

But why would google buy a 3D software company you’d ask? Apparently Sketchup has a Google Earth plugin that allows you to model your sketch in real world context; a possible add on to the Google Earth Pro edition tool chest. Quite smart and very useful for an architect I presume.

Congractulations to the Sketchup team for being Googled:

Well, about the biggest thing ever: we’ve been Googled. That’s right, Google Inc. has acquired @Last Software… so you might have just spit your coffee all over your keyboard, or you’re rolling your eyes thinking this is another one of my April Fool’s jokes. Believe me, we’re still having a hard time believing it ourselves, but it’s real — we are now Google!

Now I wonder who’s next? numsum?
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