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  • 3D Virtual Earth imagery added for New York City

    Up until today, the most notable absence from Virtual Earth's catalog of 3D imagery was, without a doubt, New York City. Fortunately, Microsoft just pushed their brand new imagery for NYC live to local.live.com . Click to Enlarge In addition to the new NYC imagery, eight other cities have also been added...
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Harrison Hoffman on 05-29-2007

  • Latest release of Virtual Earth sports new features

    Hey Berkowitz try selling this stuff instead of bashing it, it rocks. The Windows Live Local blog announced a new minor point release that packs in lots of new features. First, the Birds Eye navigation control has been replaced, the thumbnail grid is out and a very cool new draggable inset map is in...
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 12-14-2006

  • QnA adds and improves; Local turns Japanese; a note on VE 3d

    Word is out from Betsy about some new features over at Windows Live QnA , including a new browse page for tags, a new question page interface, the initiation of a content rating system, an email a question to a friend feature, and some improvements to the interface with Live Search. Check out the post...
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 11-08-2006

  • Virtual Earth goes 3D

    Today sees a Virtual Earth update that adds a wealth of new features to Windows Live Local ( local.live.com ). Changes include: 3D representations of 15 major US cities (San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, Los Angeles, CA, Las Vegas, NV, Baltimore, MD, Dallas, TX, Fort Worth...
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 11-06-2006

  • Interview with Stephen Lawler - Virtual Earth

    Last week, Harrison got the chance to talk with Stephen Lawler, General Manager for Live Local/Virtual Earth product development, about their new release, making its debut this week. He has some really interesting things to say about their vision for Virtual Earth, innovative monetization, and where...
    Posted to LiveSide - Interview blog (Weblog) by Chris on 11-06-2006

  • Virtual Earth update - In world advertising

    Today's Virtual Earth update sees the inclusion of in-world advertising, powered by Microsoft's acquisition earlier this year of Massive Inc. Though Massive's technology is mainly used to include advertising in games, usually from large corporations, this horizontal step into Windows Live...
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 11-06-2006

  • November 7th - "Get ready for a New Dimension in Search"

    The live.com homepage is today displaying a teaser message, confirming an earlier post that VirtualEarth/Windows Live Local will be experiencing a major update on November 7th. The message reads (emphasis is mine): "Get ready for a new dimension in search ...November 7th" Start guessing !
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 11-02-2006

  • Virtual Earth update next week

    From the Virtual Earth (Mappoint) blog : Please be advised that we will release a new version of the Virtual Earth Map Control on Tuesday, November 7th 2006. ... Due to an upcoming marketing campaign surrounding this release we cannot elaborate on the exciting new features that will be in the release...
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Chris on 10-31-2006

  • Round Table Discussion with Live Search

    Last week LiveSide sat down with some people from Live Search to talk about a wide range of topics, including the switch from MSN Search to Live Search, the Windows Live name and brand, migrating MSN Search users and acquiring new ones, Live Local, QnA, Google and Page Rank, and a lot more. My apologies...
    Posted to LiveSide - Interview blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 10-12-2006

  • Local and Safety Scanner come out of beta

    Just in from http://ideas.live.com , although no official announcement as yet, but Live Local and Safety Scanner have dropped the beta tag and graduated to full blown Windows Live Services. This brings the list of released products to 10, according to ideas.live.com
    Posted to LiveSide - News blog (Weblog) by Kip Kniskern on 10-08-2006
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