Where’s Santa Claus? The 2011 Santa Tracker List, From NORAD To Your Phone!

It's Christmas Eve! Santa Claus is on his annual trip of delivering presents to good little boys and girls around the world. Time also for our annual tradition, telling you how to track Santa using the internet, by smartphone and even through good old-fashioned voice telephone calls. NORAD: One-Stop Shopping For Santa Tracking This is my seventh year writing about ways to track Santa. When I started in 2005, there were a variety of different services. Since then, most of these have disappeared, unable to match NORAD Track Santa. NORAD is the US-Canadian military organization that trac [...]


For The Holidays, Google Has NORAD Tracks Santa & Bing Has Magical Holiday Calendar

Google's teaming up again with NORAD to product one of my favorite Christmas traditions, the NORAD Tracks Santa web site. But new for this year, Bing joins the holiday sweepstakes with a Advent calendar-like Bing Magical Holiday Calendar. NOTE: For the latest news on the 2011 Santa Tracker, see our post: Where’s Santa Claus? The 2011 Santa Tracker List, From NORAD To Your Phone! Where's Santa? Google & NORAD Know Let's start with Santa. Since it's not Christmas Eve, the site has a countdown until it begins Santa tracking operations for 2011: The site also has holiday video messa [...]


Where Is Santa Claus? The 2010 Santa Tracker List, From NORAD To Google Earth

It's Christmas Eve, and you know what that means. Santa Claus is busy delivering toys to boys and girls around the world. Where is Santa Claus right now? Below, our annual round up of ways to find Father Christmas, from tracking Santa on Google Earth to monitoring him from your iPhone. NOTE: For news on the 2011 Santa Tracker, see our post: Where’s Santa Claus? The 2011 Santa Tracker List, From NORAD To Your Phone! NORAD's Santa Tracking Monopoly I've been writing about Santa tracking for five years now. Back in 2005, there were a variety of Santa tracking services out there. Since t [...]


Santa Pegman Comes To Google Maps

"Pegman" is the little icon in Google Maps that you can drag to enable the Google Street View feature. Tomorrow, he's getting into the Christmas spirit by becoming "Santa Pegman" and sporting a Santa Claus hat. Google's sent a few preview pictures of how Santa Pegman will appear beginning tomorrow at 2am Eastern time through December 25. Here's a shot at Rockefeller Center: Santa Pegman is down there in the lower right-hand corner. Here he is again at San Francisco's Union Square: And one more, from Santa Claus, Indiana: Google's also put out a blog post reminding peopl [...]


NORAD Santa Claus Tracker 2010 Now Open!

It's the most wonderful time of the year again -- the time to track Santa Claus! The NORAD Tracks Santa site has gone live for the upcoming holiday season. You can't really track him yet, but there are fun and games. More below, as well as what to expect on Christmas Eve. NOTE: For news on the 2011 Santa Tracker, see our post: Where’s Santa Claus? The 2011 Santa Tracker List, From NORAD To Your Phone! NORAD -- the North American Aerospace Defense Command -- has been tracking St. Nick for over 50 years. In 2007, it teamed up with Google formally on the project. Google announced that this [...]


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