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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 !
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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...
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Windows Live Local, "powered by" Virtual Earth, has come out of beta, too. Looking quite polished, with Bird's Eye Views added for many cities ( take a look at the collection , thanks to the Virtual Earth blog ) , Live Local is quietly and rapidly coming into it's own. Collections of pushpins, traffic...
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Recently I got a demo of some upcoming Windows Live Mobile applications, one of which, the Live Local mobile application, has just been updated and is available for public download. As with G2, the new mobile Messenger client for smartphones , the Live Local application is impressive, both in terms of...
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Not long ago I made a post on my own blog about Windows Live Local Coming to Australia after seeing this post on a Windows Live Local Australia Blog announcing it, unfortunately though Windows Live Local imagery support for Australia never happened! However now that's all changed because Windows...