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• Announcing: Virtual Earth 6.2 and Virtual Earth Web Services 1.0

  Well here it is everybody. The next version of Virtual Earth is out. Not only that but we now have our 1.0 version of the Virtual Earth Web Services here live as well. Let’s dig in to some of the features in this release. Maps for Mobile Devices . Develop Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:38 PM by mjbrown | 7 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Web Services, 3D

• Tech Ed Interview with Carl Franklin

  Hey everyone. Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. Been a little crazy for me lately getting everything ramped up for our upcoming release of Virtual Earth which is due here very very soon. When we were all at Tech Ed North America in Orlando, FL this Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:15 AM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Silverlight, SOAP, Web Services, Events, Humor, 3D, UltraCam

• Add your own 3D models to Virtual Earth

  Well we've finally done it! We now have a way for you to create or import your own models and put them into Virtual Earth using truSpace which comes from Caligari who we brought into Microsoft not too long ago. Not only that but you can get truSpace for Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:00 AM by mjbrown | 1 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Maps, Collections, Cool Stuff, 3D, Caligari

• Virtual Earth makes golfing more enjoyable

  My friend Jerry over on the Virtual Earth 3D team turned me on to a company called, Terra Imaging who makes a product called, 3D Golf Course . They just finished doing the Torrey Pines course in La Jolla, CA where Tiger just won his 14th major championship. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:59 AM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Cool Stuff, 3D

• Miami now on Virtual Earth 3D 2.0

  Our Virtual Earth 3D Integration Team Blog has the scoop on Miami released our new 3D technology which is completely automated in a data center completely powered by wind . The area modeled using our new 3D technology covers the entire downtown Miami Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:13 AM by mjbrown | 1 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Maps, 3D

• State & Local Governments Getting Jiggy with Virtual Earth

  State and Local Governments love mapping stuff. They also create really cool looking websites that their citizens find really useful. Here's a list of some State and Local Governments that are using Virtual Earth and what they are doing with it. To quote Read More... Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 2:25 PM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Mashups, Cool Stuff, 3D

• Turning on Inertia in Virtual Earth 3D

  So the other day I was following an email thread on a discussion forum for Virtual Earth internally here at Microsoft and someone says, "if only VE clients had “inertia” like Google Earth..." and someone writes back. "Inertia is there, it's just turned Read More... Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:27 PM by mjbrown | 4 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Live Maps, 3D