Well hopefully not, but this is how it looks at the moment… Here in the UK, during the great floods of 2007 we were pretty late in getting the situation covered on Virtual Earth and I moaned to the Director of our Online Services Group (MSN and stuff like that) about it. He promised me…
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Windows Live Quick Apps – Mashup apps with source code
Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps “Contoso Bicycle Club” and “Contoso University” were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft UK. They incorporate many Live Services some of which are still in…
"We all do agree the world is not flat, right?"
At the recent BI conference that my colleague Ben has been shouting about recently, one of the Keynotes featured SQL Server 2008 and Virtual Earth. Why these two products? Well, because SQL Server 2008 will be featuring new types of data – in particular geographic data. Ted Kummert, VP of Data Platforms at Microsoft gave…
Virtual Earth captures sinking ship
It really was a case of now you see it, now you don’t with the “Cariddi II” – a ship that sunk recently off Sicily. I found this via VirtualGlobeTrotter and wanted to share it with you. The “Bird’s Eye View”, unique to Virtual Earth, was able to capture the before and after stages whilst the…