Interactive music video offers personalized trip down memory lane

Looking for a fun interactive mashup of technology, music and personal history?

A site called The Wilderness Downtown is showing off the power of Google's Chrome browser, Google Earth and Street View; and personalization using The Arcade Fire song "We Used to Wait" as a powerful trip down memory lane.

Background on the fun can be found at lemondrop.com but here's a quick how-to:

First, you MUST use the Google Chrome browser. Once equipped so, fire up The Wilderness Downtown site, type in the address of the home(s) you grew up in, then sit back and watch the magic of technology personalizing a music video by one of the hottest bands going. Smaller browser windows pop up here and there as the storyline progresses and your home shows up first in Google Earth, then Street View. Toward the end, you can type or draw in a personal postcard of your memories growing up in the house.

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