Blaise Aguera y Arcas showed off some very cool new stuff from Bing Maps at TED a couple of days ago, and the video has just been posted, so here it is:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/766

Just a note that the Streetside Photos …

In this release over one million square kilometers of new imagery got added. This is a very special release because, for the first time ever, Enhanced Bird’s Eye imagery got added outside of the United States!

Bird’s Eye: Italy –

Looks like the msn.com/preview has been updated, or at least the “my apps” portion of the home page.  Before, there were three tabs, for Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live, and a separate Hotmail section, but now two new apps have …

More news from the TED conference, this time it’s Dr. Gary Flake presenting Pivot, a Live Labs project that just “wouldn’t have been possible five years ago”:

Pivot is an experimental technology that allows people to visualize data

We should have known something was up since Stefan Weitz and Betsy Aoki have been hanging out and tweeting from TED, and sure enough today Bing Maps Architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas got up and showed off the latest in …

Always fun to catch some little tidbits in official Windows Live blogs, and we noticed two recent ones, thanks to a tip from Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net.

First, did we just get a glimpse of an Emoticon makeover?  In yesterday’s …

Jeff Kunins, the Group Program Manager for social networking across Windows Live, wrote an interesting post about the history of Windows Live Messenger on the Inside Windows Live blog. 

He tells us that the instant messaging category got …

We’ll be following whatever Windows Mobile/Phone news comes out of the Mobile World Congress next week, but we know some of you may want to get the latest news right from Steve Ballmer himself.  Luckily, the Windows Phone Press Conference …

Not to be outdone by the other Winter Games features, Bing Maps has introduced a Bing Maps Winter Games app, which shows you venues, news and blogs, Tweets, and even medal counts from the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. …

The Winter Olympics, this year held in Vancouver, B.C., are just a few days away, and promise to be the most internet friendly Olympics, so far (especially if you’re in the US, we’re checking on the non-US story).  NBC Universal …