If you're traveling to Ireland or Germany, you can now use Hotels.com's localized sites with Virtual Earth maps. The integration is rather simple showing maps of the hotel locations - just click one of the hotels and click on the panel to view the map...

Infospace.com and local.infospace.com is now live on MapPoint Web Service. This has been a long process that started 2 years ago(!) and is now live. InfoSpace powers such sites as MetaCrawler.com , WebCrawler.com , WebFetch and DogPile.com . All yellow...

Check out the RecruitMAP video used for recruiting people into military branches. The video shows how Virtual Earth can integrate with MS CRM & Dynamics to make geospatial decision-making easy. If you want additional information on how to integrate...

Duncan Lawler, Principle Development Lead for Virtual Earth 3D, (also has the glorious esteem of sitting across the hall from me) has posted an article on MSDN explaining how VE3D works in more detail. If you're interested in VE3D you should definately...

How about some SAP and Virtual Earth integration? Check out this video explaining how mapping provides better business intelligence combining SAP and Virtual Earth: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/businesses/partners/demos/sap/index.html . The zone...

http://www.harley-davidson.com/wcm/Content/Pages/Great_Roads/hdEarth.jsp?locale=en_US Harley-Davison just launched its Great Roads application using Virtual Earth and it is sick! If you're a rider and want to find killer routes to drive on you should...

The mobile team at Microsoft has released an SMS application that lets you perform quick searches by sending a text message to 95483 (WLIVE or OTRIE for those of us with PPC). It's actually pretty slick. I sent a text for "sergios 92123" and I received...

The biggest weather site on the web just lauched with Virtual Earth as their mapping platform of choice. Here's a sample: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/92123 . The site using a Flash interface to overlay weather data atop of VE. You can see...

MWS 5.2 is scheduled to release to the web on March 15. Most of the changes are backend hardware and architecture, so you won't be affected; however, there is one significant change you should be aware of and that is authentication. We're moving our authentication...

Did you know upgrading from MWS to VE from a contract perspective is SOOOOO easy? It has recently come to my attention that many of our current customers didn't even know Microsoft owns BOTH MapPoint Web Service AND Virtual Earth. Soooo, just talk to...

The cCityGov.net alliance is a group of cities with in Washington State that have committed to partner together to provide on-line services and information to our customers. Their objectives are simple: • Provide convenient service and information for...

Bridgestreet.com recently integrated Virtual Earth into their site for locating corporate housing. The site allows you to adjust your search radius to locate housing around the world and visualize the property with aerial ortho and oblique (bird's eye...

Target Corporation launched their new store locator with MapPoint Web Service and Virtual Earth. Both? Yes! See, Target was smart enough to realize that they wanted to maintain the same user experience for their locator that users had become familiar...

Avis Europe just rolled out their new site using MapPoint Web Service. You can read the Microsoft press release here and see the working application here . I like how they declare it "hiring a car." Kind of like hiring a limo driver or something. Nice...

The official version of MWS is now 4.5.1, for the record. We upgraded many of the backend infrastructure and added some features. In a nutshell we (1) added a new European map style, (2) added some logo removal capabilities for smaller device screens...

The branded entertainment team has lined up custom live.com pages featuring Molly Sims, Hilary Duff and Jesse McCartney - http://celebrities.live.com/ . You can see where Molly likes to eat in New York; where Hilary likes to shop in Los Angeles; and Jesse...

Jackson Hewitt got the memo and during tax season, no less - http://www.jacksonhewitt.com/Locator/ - find the nearest Tax Service Office. Virtual Earth is supporting mission critical applications for Jackson Hewitt; you could be next.