Every year, Google teams up with the North American Aerospace Defense Command to track a bearded man flying a sleigh across the globe. This year, you can track the journey via Google Map, Google Earth, from your phone, and more.
More specifically, your Santa-tracking options are:
See Santa on a Google Map:
On your home computer or laptop, visit
www.noradsanta.org
and choose your preferred language. You'll see a large Google Map on the page displaying Santa's current location and his next stop. Click the video icons to watch
"Santa Cam" videos
, and click the gift icons to learn more about each city.
Watch Santa fly with the Google Earth Plug-in:
From
www.noradsanta.org
, click on the link
Track Santa in Google Earth
. You'll see Santa steering his sleigh right on the webpage. If you don't have the Google Earth plug-in, you can get ready by
downloading
it ahead of time.
Follow Santa on your phone:
Track Santa from your mobile phone by opening
Google Maps for mobile
and searching for [santa]. Or, visit
m.noradsanta.org
on your phone's browser.
Subscribe to his YouTube channel:
Santa's home on YouTube is at
http://www.youtube.com/noradtrackssan…
. That's where you can find videos from his journey throughout the night.
Get real-time information about Santa's location:
Use Google's
Realtime Search
to get updates from social networks, news and micro-blogs like Twitter at
@noradsanta
, and keep up with news about his journey on this
Facebook page
.
The party starts tomorrow (Christmas Eve) at 2am EST. If you want a better idea of what you can expect from Google and NORAD's Santa-tracking, they've even got a dedicated page of tips and tricks.
Dashing through the snow... with NORAD and Google [Google Mobile Blog]