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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:49 PM

Virtual Earth & Silverlight Together on Windows Mobile

My friend Sam Chenaur over in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Team (DPE) here at Microsoft posted a blog entry the other day about an interview he did on Channel 10 with the CEO of John L. Scott Realty . If you didn’t know. John L. Scott is an existing
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:59 AM

Virtual Earth makes golfing more enjoyable

My friend Jerry over on the Virtual Earth 3D team turned me on to a company called, Terra Imaging who makes a product called, 3D Golf Course . They just finished doing the Torrey Pines course in La Jolla, CA where Tiger just won his 14th major championship.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:14 AM

Hey when are you updating the aerial images for my house?

I get this question all the time from people I bump into or otherwise talk to during the course of my day. Every time I get this question I usually respond with, Yes, we’ll have updated imagery in your area by, Ladies and Gentlemen, THIS IS A WOOKIE.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:07 AM

Midwest Floods with Virtual Earth Maps on MSNBC.COM

Virtual Earth is a great tool to visualize the news. It provides information in new and very actionable ways. Chris Pendleton on the Virtual Earth team has a perfect example here with the top story this past week about the terrible floods in the American
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Sunday, June 15, 2008 10:47 AM

Find the Best Gas Prices Using Mobile Live Search

I just came across this feature when I updated the Mobile Live Search client on my Windows Mobile phone. There now is a feature which allows you to find the lowest gas prices in your area. If you have a GPS enabled phone this feature is even easier to
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Sunday, June 15, 2008 10:45 AM

Scoble interviews Microsoft Search Executive Brad Goldberg

This sometimes rankles a few people when I say this, but I have a lot of respect for Robert Scoble . I was a huge fan of the work he did here at Microsoft when he worked for Jeff Sandquist over on Channel 9 and the both of them led something of a revolution
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:20 PM

Cool Silverlight Deep Zoom – Virtual Earth Demo

Our friends from Australia, Soul Solutions, headed up by two of our most creative Virtual Earth MVP’s have built a totally cool Virtual Earth application using Silverlight complete with extensive blog entry and extending the MultiScaleTileSource class
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:45 AM

Tech Ed is Awesome

I'm having a great time at Tech Ed this year. There are TONS of developers here and they are really enjoying themselves. I had my session yesterday on Virtual Earth. The room was packed, standing room only with probably close to 200 people in there. Among
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:13 AM

Miami now on Virtual Earth 3D 2.0

Our Virtual Earth 3D Integration Team Blog has the scoop on Miami released our new 3D technology which is completely automated in a data center completely powered by wind . The area modeled using our new 3D technology covers the entire downtown Miami
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:58 AM

Lounge Lizard at the Tech Ed Blogger Lounge

Hey folks. Does my sense of humor bother you? Do you find my use of imagery in my blog posts convince you that I'm stupid or otherwise need therapy? Are you interested in having a conversation in person about Virtual Earth? Well here's your chance to
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:00 AM

SQL Server 2008 Builder API Coming Soon!

Isaac Kunen over on the SQL Spatial Team blogs about their upcoming Builder API feature in SQL Spatial. If you're a developer interested in building Virtual Earth applications you'll want to take a close look at our upcoming release of SQL Server with
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