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Find Developer Events Using Virtual Earth

One of my friends at Microsoft, Glen Gordon in our US Developer and Platform Evangelism Team (DPE) turned me on to something really cool they just did. If you didn’t know these guys are constant road warriors presenting at events across the US. They just created a new website called, Community Megaphone that has a complete listing of all upcoming Developer Events across the US. It’s got some nice features such as allowing you to add events to your Outlook Calendar, but the BEST FEATURE is the ability to get a map of the location using Virtual Earth.

imageAnd if that wasn’t enough they went a step further. They also went and built and RSS Feed that includes GeoRSS. This allows anybody to import the feed into Live Maps Collection. He didn’t stop there though. This gets even cooler because with the data in GeoRSS and if you have one of these new Windows Mobile phones that has a GPS built into it you can now use your phone to see if there are any Developer Events close to you. Here’s a little screen shot of what it looks like on the phone but check out his post for all the details on how you can do this too.

Enjoy

Published Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:09 PM by mjbrown

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a-foton » Find Developer Events Using Virtual Earth said:

July 17, 2008 7:25 PM
 

gduthie said:

Even better...I just updated the site to include the ability to get directions to an event. Just browse to the event details (either from the home page, or the all-up event map) for an event, then click the Get Map link. There's a Show directions panel checkbox which, when clicked, gives you a UI where you can enter your starting location and get directions, optimized for time or for distance.

July 21, 2008 1:31 PM
 

gduthie said:

Oh...one other quick note...you don't have to have GPS to use the Live Search for Mobile integration. It will list events by distance from the current location for Live Search, whether that's from GPS or entered by hand. So even non-GPS phones will work with this feature.

July 21, 2008 1:33 PM

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