Trulia launched their new home searching tool dubbed " Snapshot " as a new and unique way to search for real estate. I have to say, this site IS ABSOLUTELY SICK. For you non-Gen Xers and younger, that's a good thing. I would say it's "disgusting" but...

We sent out another customer/developer satisfaction survey today. We'd love to here what you have to say - good, bad or other - so feel free to complete the Virtual Earth Developer Satisfaction Survey . Here's the actual text that was sent around: As...

I stumbled across a Virtual Earth mashup dubbed The Top 100 Iconic Photo Locations Map Room from Canon and Microsoft and realized there's a whole contest behind this thing (details below). First, the mashup! Once you get to the site, you can select one...

I've mentioned Weather Central in the past with regards to some of their killing broadcasts which use Virtual Earth as a backdrop. Well, I caught up with them at NAB and thought I'd post an update on some of their innovation. Here are some samples of...

I wrote a little mashup for Where 2.0 that shows some functionality I've always wanted and was just too lazy...I mean busy! to get it done. The idea is that if I ever wanted to know what the lat/lon of a specific location on a map is (since I write a...

7-Eleven went live last night with Virtual Earth. Nothing over the top special, but a nifty little store locator. Enter a postal code, select some optional search attributes (Gas Available, Bill Payment, ATM, Money Order, Audio Enabled ATM, Money, Transfers...

James Oyang , recently granted me a copy of Pharos Trips and Pics with GPS . I've been a longstanding user of the Pharos GPS with Streets and Trips and MapPoint , but with the continued growth of online photo-sharing and using maps as a backdrop I wanted...

The Live Search Maps China team has been busy. They've release a new version of Live Search Maps China which includes Virtual Earth China API for developers, with Virtual Earth China SDK documentation on Chinese MSDN. Pinyin support for map search query...

The Live Search Maps team in China has created a collection rendering all of the earthquakes in China . We hope this collection of information will provide some additional information about events that are taking place, so those of you who are interested...

The long awaited Microsoft Worldwide Telescope is now available for download! Start exploring the galaxy, the universe and yes, even the Virtual Earth - well, it is a planet you know, so why wouldn't it be included? This tool is absolutely sick and will...

About a month ago, Google released integration between Google Earth and Google Spreadsheets . Then, they release Google Spreadsheet Mapper to make it official. Very cool idea. We had native integration between MapPoint 200x and Microsoft Office Excel...

Zillow.com has been using Virtual Earth for some time now and, in fact, was one of our first customers to integrate and go live with the Virtual Earth platform on their site - just Bird's Eye, though. They were hosting their own repository of imagery...

An alert for you Version 6 API customers out there. We're going to auto-upgrade all Version 6 users to Version 6.1 on June 26, 2008. This will effectively combine Version 6 and 6.1. You don't have to do anything; unless, of course, you've downloaded the...

SQL Server 2008 Spatial...I like the sound of that. CTP (Community Technology Preview) is available for free evaluation download now. It's coming and I can't wait for you to see it. Since Ed Katibah and I presented at Location Intelligence he and I have...

Here's a unique mashup - Twisney - Virtual Earth, Twitter and Flickr all based on Disney Parks in Orlando. I love this because it's so simple, yet has some great filtering and searching capabilities. You can filter listings on the months and/or days the...

Since I post all kinds of Virtual Earth tidbits up here, I figure I'd ensure you were all aware of some of the positions we have open on our team. Yes - we are hiring! I was sent a couple job descriptions from internal hiring managers and figured, hey...

"Where Location is Relative"....alright, so we're heading to Burlingame, CA for the Where 2.0 Conference next week (May 12-14). You would think the GIS/LBS industry is big enough to justify someplace bigger than Burlingame - perhaps San Diego, eh? Oh...

The Windows Team has finally released their much anticipated FREE Microsoft Pro Photo Tools application and it includes Virtual Earth. The most significant part of the release (for me, at least) is the support for GPS meta data in the photo. Here's an...

This week at the Location Intelligence Conference , I announced that route geometry is now exposed in Virtual Earth. The SDK is now updated to reflect how you can get route geometry out of Virtual Earth. The catch is you have to use the tokening system...

A mere 22 TB of data this month is highlighted by Obliques (Bird's Eye) in Canada, Australia and Greece and ortho imagery in India! Check out the details below: Microsoft Ultracam Orthos Pueblo, CO Wilmington, DE St. Joseph...