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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:52 PM

Rooftop Geocoding Now Available!

The era of rooftop geocoding is upon us. Rooftop geocoding is now available in MapPoint Web Service. What is rooftop geocoding? With the popularity of aerial photography interpolation geocoding which has been in use for years is no longer sufficient to
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Friday, March 30, 2007 3:51 AM

MWS 5.2 is now Live!

I mentioned this a few weeks ago, but for those customer who use Microsoft's MapPoint Web Service, today marks a fantastic day. With the release of Version 5.2 we have moved out of the Microsoft Extranet system (which is great and all), but now you are
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:52 PM

InfoNow parts ways with MapQuest for Microsoft

It's official - InfoNow is now a Microsoft partner and will be pushing the Virtual Earth and MapPoint Web Service platforms for its customers. Why is this significant? Oh, I don't know....maybe because they are one of if not the biggest integrator of
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 18, 2007 3:36 AM

Going to ETech 2007?

ETech (Emerging Technology Conference) is in San Diego which is reason enough, but now you have another reason - ME! Ha! I'll be presenting a 45-minute session titled "Virtual Earth in the Enterprise" March 28 @ 5:25 You can read about me and my session
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 18, 2007 3:28 AM

Microsoft Hosting Summit 2007

If you're coming to the Microsoft Hosting Summit Tuesday, March 20 expect to see a kick ass Virtual Earth demo by none of than yours truly. I'll be presenting an application you've probably seen before, as well as, one you probably haven't. I'll get 4
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Friday, March 02, 2007 7:07 PM

ConocoPhilips Finds Gas Stations with Virtual Earth

ConocoPhilips (COP) replaced their MapPoint Web Service Station Finder and Trip Planner with Virtual Earth. COP brands include Union 76, Conoco and Philips 66. Go to their site and click on "station finder" to enter your address and search radius. You'll
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Friday, March 02, 2007 6:34 PM

SMS and WAP to Find Nearest Starbucks

This week Starbucks rolled out a new SMS service which has gotten quite a bit of press . The process is simple, you send a SMS (aka text message) containting a postal code to 697289 (MySBUX) and you will receive back the nearest Starbuck's locations.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:27 PM

InfoSpace.com Launches on MapPoint Web Service

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
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:00 PM

Try Local Searching via SMS

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
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:17 PM

MapPoint Web Service v5.2

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
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:12 PM

Upgrade from MWS to VE

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
Posted by cpendle | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:31 PM

Target Corp. Live on MWS & Virtual Earth

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
Posted by cpendle | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:36 AM

Avis and MapPoint Web Service

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
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:34 AM

CSR 5.1 is Now Live

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,
Posted by cpendle | 1 Comments
Friday, January 05, 2007 12:09 AM

Come see us at Inman - NYC

I'll be working the Microsoft Virtual Earth booth at the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference next week. Stop by the booth and say, "Hey!" I'm going to try to blog the trip on my Inman provided blog , but being on a time zone 3 hours ahead of what I'm
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