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    Chris Pendleton
    Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist
    Microsoft® Live Search
    Redmond, WA

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June 2007 - Posts

Virtual Earth SDK Version 5 Now Live!
The SDK for Version 5 is now live and available for online browsing or download . Start taking advantage of the following new features: A completely new, advanced set of features for Pushpins, Polylines and Polygons Support for Popup Info Boxes with a Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007 7:40 PM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Drawing Tools for Virtual Earth
I get asked by developers a lot about how they can leverage the nifty drawing tools that are on Live Search Maps. Well, Johannes Kebeck (Virtual Earth, Technology Specialist) took it upon himself to write the code and document it for you. You can reference Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007 3:59 PM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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HomePages.com Leveraging Virtual Earth
Homepages.com has launched their map based search using Virtual Earth. The solution leverages our local search API included within Virtual Earth to show home buyers not only where available properties are, but what local amenities are in the area. The Read More...
Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007 5:06 AM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Polygonally Search for Real Estate
John L. Scott does it again. JLS has rolled out their "neighborhood wizard" to help users more precisely locate a home on their consumer web site. JLS was the first to roll out a residential real estate site that featured auto-refreshing, draggable maps. Read More...
Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007 3:45 AM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Canadians, Find Harry Potter with Virtual Earth
Chapters Book Stores is leveraging Virtual Earth to help Harry Potter fans find their bookstores in order to get their hands on a copy of the final novel in the series. As a personal fan of both VE and HP, I'm excited for the final novel so any way to Read More...
Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007 3:40 AM by Chris Pendleton | 0 Comments
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Dig for Gold within Virtual Earth
In Australia the NineMSN team has just launched Goldrush – a big initiative to propel search usage. You can access the game from www.ninemsn.com.au or go direct to www.goldrushgame.com.au The Goldrush game was developed to drive Live Search queries by Read More...
Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007 3:18 AM by Chris Pendleton | 1 Comments
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Virtual Earth @ Tech Ed '07
Thanks to everyone who attended my Virtual Earth / Live.com Search speaking session and visited me at the Live.com booth @ Tech Ed this year. During my discussion I had promised I would post my app code for converting SOAP XML to JavaScript, so you'll Read More...
Posted: Sunday, June 10, 2007 2:33 AM by Chris Pendleton | 3 Comments
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