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Stamen Design delivers More innovation in UI for Trulia
Posted on May 29th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Whether my subjective opinion of their projects is positive or negative, I'm always intrigued by the work of Stamen Designs. Like a piece of ...

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UK Developers - Get Mashed at the Ally Pally
Posted on May 29th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Matthew Quinlan from our office in the UK brings news of Mashed 08 this June 21st- We’re delighted to announce that we’re partners for Mash...

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Eric Schmidt: “mobile will be a larger business than the PC-Web”
Posted on May 27th, 2008 on Locally Type*
FAZ (big German news paper, but all in english) Interview with Eric Schmidt on search advertising, the mobile market, web 2.0 and the (possible) ...

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Live Maps for China - New release is Live today!
Posted on May 16th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
The second major release of Live Maps for China is out and can be accessed at http://ditu.live.com. Congrats to our engineering team in China for getting t...

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I just flew in from Where 2.0…
Posted on May 16th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
...and boy are my arms tired. but at least I was able to capture some fabulous DIY aerial imagery along the way. If that isn't funny to you, ...

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Helping out after the China quakes
Posted on May 15th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
It's been a rough month here on Earth as far as natural disasters go between the Cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China this week. On...

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More Traffic on Yahoo! Maps
Posted on May 14th, 2008 on Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog
Today Yahoo! Maps releases an expansion to our real-time traffic offering, increasing both coverage and comprehensiveness. In terms of coverage, w...

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Abstracting Spatial Relationships with the Yahoo! Internet Location Platform
Posted on May 12th, 2008 on Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog
Like the London Tube Map, recording and retrieval of locations and their relationships doesn’t always have to do with their Lat/Lon. There ...

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Yahoo! Answers - No1 UK Website - hitwise
Posted on May 9th, 2008 on Locally Type*
I know there is little news on this page lately - but there is just so much to do But I wanted to share this Yahoo! Answers UK has been awarded No.1 Website Jan...

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Why my new phone isn’t an iPhone
Posted on May 8th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
A few months back I asked VE blog readers for some advice on my next mobile. After investigating a bunch of phones I finally settled on the AT&a...

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