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In the US more than everywhere else, politics is also a show: the White house is currently broadcasting the presidential Easter egg hunt. And a non-written rule says that president must have an animal. Once elected, Barack Obama respected the tradition and has welcome monday a potuguese waterdog named «Bo».

The web likes animal: think about lolcats. So no surprise that US Twitter users have their say on the new first dog. It gave us the idea of a twitter map showing US tweets about our friend Bo.

Employement figures keep on collapsing. For people seeking for a job, one problem is that new jobs aren't always made public. A french news website, Jobetic, has decided to create a map couting all created jobs that have not been made public: cart@jobs.

Vue d'artiste de l'Atlantide. Photo Flickr CC/Eusezio

You find so many things on Google maps and Google earth. Sometimes, you can find alleged treasures. But here, it's much greater this time. According to controversial tabloid The Sun, it's about one of the most popular myth: Atlantis.

14:50 update: in fact, this is not Atlantis. We explain you why.

French news website Mediapart has started a social crisis map in France. Five month later, the map has reached more than a million visits. A performance that defintely worth including it in our crisis maps.

On sunday, two people escaped from Moulins-Yzeure jail, in France. They've not been caught by the police at the time we write. We will be following this whole story with a home-made time space.

It had to happen.After its launch in the US and UK, Google traffic function, is now available for France.

Today in 20minutes.fr, we're talking about recent movies the are available for download on the web. As a complement, here's a map released by a leader in the peer-to-peer universe, The Pirate Bay. It tracks users connected to the site in real time.

Second episode of our Crisis maps serial - which is defintely gonna be a long one. Some US associations have launched recently a participative map to let the subprimes victims have their say.
Post updated on Feb 12 with a USA Today map