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Live Maps to incorporate Birds Eye view into 3D maps

We’ve mentioned the incorporation of Birds Eye view into Live Maps 3D before, but it’s a little hard to describe without actually seeing it.  Looks live someone posted a video to YouTube though, that shows off the new technology.  …

New at Virtual Earth: A new SDK including 3D Map Control; New Bird’s Eye Imagery; and more to come

From Bink.nu: A new SDK is available for Virtual Earth, and includes support for using 3D Maps in 3rd party map applications.  From the SDK:

3D Maps

The Virtual Earth map control now supports 3D maps. This is

Windows Live announcements: Windows Live Events launched; SkyDrive goes to 1GB – Our interview with David Fortin

Windows Live Events, set to launch at the time of this posting, 5pm PDT (Redmond time), is a new feature of Windows Live Spaces that makes it easy to create, manage, and share events using Windows Live Spaces.  Here …

Photos and Windows Live Spaces: Embed photos or albums.

The latest improvements coming to Windows Live Spaces introduced a few changes to the way photos are handled, but with all of the announcements about Events and the changes to SkyDrive, you may have missed what has just happened.  We …

Spaces, SkyDrive, Events: Changes in the works

Looks like some of the changes we’re expecting are starting to roll out in Spaces land – new SkyDrive integration, a changed Spaces “What’s New” page, and more Events sightings (although no sign of the product itself, yet).

Jamie T. …

Office Live Small Business: our interview with Michael Schultz

olsb With 450,000 domains in use with Office Live (now Office Live Small Business), its becoming clear that there is a market for a connected set of services helping small businesses to establish, maintain, and grow a web presence.  We …

Windows Live strategy session: “Go Ahead and Be Honest”

Larry Hyrb, known to the Xbox Live community as “Major Nelson“, revealed that he will be in a meeting next week with Ray Ozzie, among others, to talk about the future of Live Services at Microsoft.  Major Nelson …

Live Search Maps: the best is yet to come

We haven’t talked much about the changes coming to Live Search Maps, for a couple of reasons.  The first and foremost, of course, is that its not live yet, and it’s kind of hard to talk about the changes without …

Health Instant Answers: update and clarification

While posting on the new Health vertical for Live Search, I wasn’t able to show how to get to these answers from just the main Live Search page, and that’s because the Instant Answers functionality is just now starting …

POP3 on Hotmail Explained: we talk to Omar Shahine

POP3, a protocol for getting email from a server to a client, has been around a long time, but it hasn’t been generally available for Hotmail users. With the advent of so many different devices (think iPhone), however, a POP3 …