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China Central Television partners with Virtual Earth
Posted on June 13th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
This brief mail came to me this AM from Vincent Tao who leads many of Microsoft's mapping and GIS initiatives in China - CCTV (China Centr...

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Loopt launches on iPhone with Virtual Earth Maps
Posted on June 10th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
Loopt co-founder Sam Altman was onstage yesterday at Apple's DevCon to launch the Loopt client app for iPhone. You can see it in action in thi...

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iBegin Share 1.3 finally out
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 on iBegin Blog
Better late than never! As promised earlier, the newest version of iBegin Share is out. Beyond the little bug fixes are three new skins, and a...

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Mt. Rushmore in Birds Eye
Posted on May 29th, 2008 on Virtual Earth / Live Maps
A couple of weeks ago I was commenting to our imagery team that the area around Mt Rushmore would be a great addition to our Birds Eye library; it...

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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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