here they come... so MS catches up in maps, and now Google comes out with IM. dood, this is pretty sweet actually... http://www.start.com/3/ hm... we have interesting random stuff too...

it was always interesting that MS cared about SPOT. I think there's definitely value in having smarter objects, but the model for SPOT was just too out of the blue. Definitely not a MS competency. Hopefully there's goign to be something more exciting...

Slowly but surely, MS always catches up and one ups the competition - http://virtualearth.msn.com/ . Here's a fun video: http://www.virtualearthinfo.com/video.asp . Too bad the international maps are still really bad. Can't look up things in Hong Kong...