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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... Posted May 29 2007, 07:01 AM by Harrison Hoffman with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local

• 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... Posted Dec 14 2006, 08:40 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Live Local

• What's the name of that Map thing?

  Virtual Earth? Local.live.com? Maps.live.com? It's all so confusing. We've suggested just changing the name to Maps and be done with it, and recently there have been signs that the change has occured. First, http://maps.live.com works, and doesn't resolve... Posted Nov 23 2006, 08:41 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Live Local, Maps

• 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... Posted Nov 08 2006, 05:44 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local, QnA

• 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... Posted Nov 06 2006, 10:08 PM by Chris with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local

• 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... Posted Nov 06 2006, 10:01 PM by Chris with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local

• 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... Posted Nov 02 2006, 03:36 PM by Chris with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local

• 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... Posted Oct 31 2006, 09:44 AM by Chris with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: LiveSide, Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local

• 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... Posted Oct 08 2006, 07:05 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: LiveSide, Windows Live, Live Local

• Windows Live News on a Tuesday night

  While we're waiting to get a peek at Soapbox (well more than the dancing butterfly, anyway), here's some Windows Live news: Danny Thorpe writes that the Windows Live Contacts Gadget is due for an update soon, one that's going to break existing... Posted Sep 20 2006, 07:54 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft Gadgets, Developer, Live Local, OneCare, Contacts

• Virtual Earth updates SDK: Version 3.1 includes new map contols

  A new version of the Virtual Earth SDK is out, that's the very nicely done interactive SDK at dev.live.com. New features include: Add Custom Tiles: Generate map tiles using the MapCruncher from Microsoft Research to add custom overlays, in varying... Posted Sep 17 2006, 08:44 PM by Kip Kniskern with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: LiveSide, Windows Live, Developer, Live Local

• New version of Live Local for Outlook available

  The Road To Know Where points to a new version of Windows Live Local for Outlook, now available for download . From the download site: Now you can add maps and directions to your Outlook meeting requests, see meeting locations in bird’s eye view maps... Posted Sep 13 2006, 06:55 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: LiveSide, Windows Live, Live Local

• Oh yeah, and Virtual Earth, too

  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... Posted Sep 12 2006, 08:29 AM by Kip Kniskern with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: LiveSide, Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local

• More Mobile on the way

  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... Posted Jul 30 2006, 12:39 PM by Chris with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Mobile, Live Local

• Windows Live Local Comes to Australia with Aerial Imagery

  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... Posted Jul 26 2006, 09:12 AM by Harrison Hoffman with | with no comments Filed under: Windows Live, Virtual Earth, Live Local