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Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:32 PM

Vote for my Session at SXSW

Hey everybody. I am up for Community Voting for the next SXSW Interactive Festival happening next March and I need your votes to get accepted. Here is the session I am presenting. HD Video Streaming Server using PHP and Silverlight A dash of PHP, a pinch
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Monday, September 29, 2008 7:14 PM

Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper 6.2 is Released

Our Virtual Earth MVP’s rock. Not even a week after we released version 6.2 of the Virtual Earth Map control Chris Pietschmann (update: and Nicolas Boonaert ) went and updated the 6.1 version of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper library
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Monday, September 01, 2008 10:46 AM

Track Hurricane Gustav with Virtual Earth

For those that want to get the latest track and wind speed data for Hurricane Gustav and for all active hurricanes go check out our Hurricane Tracker out on MSNBC.COM where they’ve linked to it from their home page . When you first visit the link the
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:41 AM

Behind the Maps – Flying the UltraCam

Hey everyone. So I’ve published our second episode in our series, Behind the Maps - The Technology of Virtual Earth , on Virtual Earth out on Channel 9. In this episode, Flying the UltraCam we go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, home of Keystone Aerial
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Friday, August 01, 2008 3:02 PM

Virtual Earth at Cowes Week

One of our Microsoft partners Inca X is working with the Pelican Racing Team to track it at the Cowes Week Regatta , August 2-9. Cowes is the longest running Regatta in the world, didn’t ya know. The fun gets started this Saturday, 10:00 GMT. That’s 8am
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:00 AM

Add your own 3D models to Virtual Earth

Well we've finally done it! We now have a way for you to create or import your own models and put them into Virtual Earth using truSpace which comes from Caligari who we brought into Microsoft not too long ago. Not only that but you can get truSpace for
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Monday, July 14, 2008 12:41 PM

W00T, MapPoint 2009 and Streets & Trips 2009

Ah yeah. I’m so happy I can talk about this now. Chris Pendleton’s got the scoop here on the upcoming release of our MapPoint 2009 product for businesses and Streets & Trips 2009 for consumers, coming out September 1st. The work they did on this version
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Monday, July 14, 2008 10:10 AM

Call 411 for Maps

It’s kind of funny but things happen in waves don’t they? For instance the subject of Google’s 411 service has been cropping up on me constantly for the last week. People tell me, “Oooo, Google, they are so smart over there with their 411 thing” or “Ahhh,
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 6:06 PM

New Video Series, Behind the Maps – The Technology of Virtual Earth

Hey everyone so I’ve finally published the first episode of Behind the Maps out on Channel 9. This video series will take you on a journey where we will follow the path the data and imagery in Virtual Earth takes from the manufacture of the camera, to
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:11 AM

New Silverlight Wrapper for Virtual Earth

A couple of guys from Microsoft, Jared Bienz from US-DPE ISV Team and Adam Eversole from Microsoft Research have created a new managed wrapper around the Virtual Earth AJAX control and released it onto Code Plex . From the projects description: The Virtual
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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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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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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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Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:25 PM

State & Local Governments Getting Jiggy with Virtual Earth

State and Local Governments love mapping stuff. They also create really cool looking websites that their citizens find really useful. Here's a list of some State and Local Governments that are using Virtual Earth and what they are doing with it. To quote
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