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• Virtual Earth ASP.NET control released

  Angus and dev.live.com have just announced that the July 2008 refresh of the Windows Live Tools was released today and includes some updates and bug fixes to the existing controls and importantly the release of the much anticipated Virtual Earth ASP.NET... Posted Jul 28 2008, 06:30 PM by John OBrien with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Windows Live Tools

• PhotoSynth moves out of Live Labs to Virtual Earth (!)

  Chris Pendleton is reporting today that the Photosynth team is moving into the Virtual Earth product group. Ever since the launch of Photosynth there's been much discussion about the natural synergy of it and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Well, it's... Posted Jul 26 2008, 07:53 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth, PhotoSynth, Featured

• TrueSpace 7.6 announced – amazing models, uploaded to Live Maps Collections or Virtual Earth

  Chris Pendleton has a long post today about TrueSpace 7.6, and on his blog and also on the TrueSpace website there are some truly amazing renderings.  Check out some of the animations, along with the video on Chris’s blog. Using Live Maps Collections... Posted Jul 24 2008, 07:12 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Maps 3D

• Virtual Earth: July Imagery Release And New Lead For Australia

  Virtual Earth has a new Lead for Australia , Peter Ulm. Peter Ulm has been with Microsoft for over a decade, most recently as the strategic account manager for one of Microsoft Australia’s largest accounts. He previously worked in sales and marketing... Posted Jul 22 2008, 02:29 PM by Sunshine with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth

• WorldMaps And Microsoft Virtual Earth

  Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Evangelist, added a little Non-Virtual Earth map to his blog . What?! A non-VE map, what’s up with that? Well this WorldMap can also display a Virtual Earth map! Thanks to Chris Pendleton: …What was most interesting is that... Posted Jul 18 2008, 03:50 PM by Sunshine with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Maps

• Microsoft demos Photos + Virtual Earth imagery mashup at Pro Photo Summit

  Yet another Microsoft conference, yet more demos of unreleased technology. Today and tomorrows events is the Pro Photo Summit , which Kip, Brandon Le Blanc , Scoble and others are attending. Scoble was streaming some of the footage from his mobile phone... Posted Jul 09 2008, 11:54 PM by Chris with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth, Featured

• New Video Series, Behind The Maps – The Technology Of Virtual Earth

  Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes of Virtual Earth ? Curious what cameras are used and what happens after the pictures are taken? How do they end up on Live Maps ? Wonder no more, Mark Brown started a video series Behind The Maps on Channel 9... Posted Jul 08 2008, 09:48 PM by Sunshine with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth

• Live Search Maps Improves Internationally

  More news on Live Search and Virtual Earth . Live Search Maps China has expanded and improved it’s site with: Real-time Traffic in Beijing Send-to-Mobile for free for local search and transit routing result Transit data refresh for existing 11 cities... Posted Jul 03 2008, 07:56 PM by Sunshine with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Search Maps

• Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth

  Chris Pendleton,Virtual Earth Evangelist , lets us know that Ask.com is now using Virtual Earth as their mapping platform. In this they are following portal sites as YellowPages.com , Superpages.com , and WhitePages.com . Ask.com has integrated it into... Posted Jul 02 2008, 01:24 PM by Sunshine with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth

• Don’t like the 20TB of new data in Virtual Earth? Submit your own!

  Another big data update over at Virtual Earth , over 20 TB, including Microsoft UltraCam images of Iowa City in drier times: (a more recent picture from the Des Moines Register , below)… …and other non-Ultra-cam imagery of lots of areas of France, some... Posted Jun 25 2008, 08:11 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Maps

• Virtual Earth ASP.NET control confirmed for July

  We talked about it at ReMIX Australia , Angus Logan got grilled over when it will be put into the hands of developers and now the release is set, the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control will be shipped in the Windows Live Tools July CTP . This is great news... Posted Jun 06 2008, 11:30 AM by John OBrien with | with no comments Filed under: Virtual Earth

• Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

  I was very proud to announce and show for the first time in public Microsoft's upcoming Virtual Earth control for Visual Studio 2008 as part of the Windows Live session at Australia's remix event. Remix Australia was held last week in Sydney and... Posted May 26 2008, 10:28 PM by John OBrien with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth

• Live Spaces Vision - get blog updates in (near) real-time

  So many blogs, so little time. There are over 112 million blogs on the Internet! How do you keep up? You can take Live Spaces Vision for a spin! Yea really, a spin! Beware not to get dizzy while this shows you all recently updated Windows Live Spaces... Posted May 16 2008, 05:23 PM by Sunshine with | with no comments Filed under: Spaces, Virtual Earth

• First of Many New Live Developer Articles

  Hello fellow LiveSide readers, my name is John O'Brien. Its my second season as a Windows Live Developer/Platform MVP and I'm pleased to announce many new developer related articles in the works for your reading pleasure here at LiveSide. Today... Posted May 11 2008, 07:22 PM by John OBrien with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth, Developer, Gallery, Maps, Silverlight Streaming, Silverlight, Photo Gallery

• Disney + Virtual Earth + Twitter + Flickr = Twisney

  What do you get when you combine Disney with Virtual Earth, Twitter and Flickr? You get Twisney ! Chris Pendleton, VE Tech Evangelist, writes the following on his blog : Here's a unique mashup - Twisney - Virtual Earth, Twitter and Flickr all based... Posted May 06 2008, 02:41 PM by Sunshine with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Virtual Earth