41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography has just been added to Bing Maps.
So go on to the Bing Maps World …
Windows Live Events “retiring” in 2010
Windows Live Events will be retiring in 2010, and instead you will be able to plan and manage social events all in one place through Windows Live Calendar, according to a post on Windows Live Wire.
…In 2010, we’ll
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In a press release issued today, web statistics firm StatCounter showed an increase in US search market share from 8.23% in June to 9.41% in July. Google was down in the US from 78.48% in June to 77.54% in …
Soapbox video recovery: not so bad
Lately all of our favorite services seem to be crapping out on us. We told you about the upcoming demise of MSN Soapbox, where we have a number of videos hosted. Users have until August 31, 2009 to head to …
Seadragon.com – Convert Any Image On The Web Into A Deep Zoom Image!
Ever wanted a deep zoom image of a huge image already uploaded to the web? Now you can. The Seadragon team in Live Labs has released a service that lets you easily turn those pictures into nice zoomable UIs: Seadragon…
Deep Zoom Composer Updated To Fix An Export Related Bug
To all you Deep Zoom Composer users out there, please uninstall your current version and get the latest:
This version fixes a fairly serious bug related to the image paths generated during export. More information on …
Bing home page featured I-35W Bridge on 2nd anniversary of collapse
Most of the time, the images on the Bing home page are pretty pictures, sometimes with topical connections, but rarely controversial. Today’s US image was a little different, before it was apparently pulled and replaced by an image of a …
BuddyFuse Web Messenger
Remember BuddyFuse, the extension to Windows Live Messenger that integrates third party (social/IM) networks into Windows Live Messenger? Well, they did it again. As we all know MSN Web Messenger retired on June 30th and you can only access …
Yahoo! powered by Bing, but not much more?
As widely expected, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal (very early) this morning, a 10 year agreement to have Bing power Yahoo! searches, with Yahoo! controlling ad sales. Last night we asked a few questions, and by digging down …
Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest, And The Winner Is…
We told you earlier about the Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest. The contest has now ended. Out of the 10,000 submissions 9,400 photos got accepted. That’s quite a few pictures to be reviewed and rated, 13,206 unique raters helped. …
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