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As they’ve done for years, Google is once again helping to track Santa’s journey around the world tomorrow! All of the action will be tracked on the official Santa Tracker site at google.com/santatracker. Santa’s journey will begin soon!

To follow Santa while you’re on the go, there is a Santa Tracker app available for Android, which gives you easy mobile access to track his journey.  New this year is Chromecast integration, so you can stream Santa’s location live on your TV.

Also, you can keep up with the latest via the Google Maps page on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about the 2013 Santa Tracker on the Official Google Blog.

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, there is also the separate NORAD Tracks Santa site.  Be sure to check out either one to help keep up with the big man as he makes his journey around the world.

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We’ve shown you some work from Henry Rothwell’s Digital Digging site before (such as the Hillforts we showed you back in April), and felt it was time to head back out there to see what’s new.  Along with a slick new mobile responsive design, Henry has a handful of great new features on the site.  One of those new features is a great collection of “long barrows”.

Long barrows are prehistoric monuments, typically rectangular or trapezoidal in shape.  Tim Darvill, author of “Long Barrows of the Cotswolds and Surrounding Areas” has been helping Henry build out this section of the site.

Thanks to the new changes that Henry has made to his site, he hopes to be able to “spend less time tinkering, and more time creating content”.  He already produces quite a lot of excellent content, so we’re looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next.

In the meantime, if you’d like to keep up with the site you can grab their RSS feed or follow them on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

Great work Henry!

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