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• Virtual Earth Presence at PDC

  Hey everybody. Sorry for not posting much lately. I've been on the road nearly non-stop for the past three weeks. And again, here I am on the road, but at least this time it is for the PDC. I've got a bunch in store for any of you coming to PDC this year. Read More... Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:35 PM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Events

• Virtual Earth 6.2 Technical Webcast

  Hey everybody. Sorry for being so quiet lately. Most of you may know that we’re getting ready to release our next version of Virtual Earth. There’s a ton of AWESOME features we got into this release and to help you all get a good start playing with them Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:36 AM by mjbrown | 11 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Web Services, Events

• 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

• Question of the Day at GeoWeb 2008

  The folks at GeoWeb are walking around with a camera and asking many of the speakers, industry heavy hitters and even me questions about the Geo Industry. Each day there is a different question. For today’s query the question is: “Do you see the activities Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:31 PM by mjbrown | 1 Comments Filed under: Events, GeoIndustry

• Speaking at GeoWeb Tomorrow

  I’m up in Vancouver, BC this week for the GITA GeoWeb conference . I will be presenting with Ed Katibah on all things Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial. A Complete Guide to Geo-Spatial Technology at Microsoft\(SOLD OUT) Ed Katibah, Principal Program Manager Read More... Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 11:31 PM by mjbrown | 1 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Events, SQL Spatial

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:09 PM by mjbrown | 3 Comments Filed under: Events, Live Maps, Collections, Mobile

• BAH, What a Wasted Day

  Today’s been a tough one for me. To begin I was having issues with my normal laptop, a severely underpowered Sony VAIO that I’ve had for about three years. It’s never liked Vista and to be sure Vista has hated it right back. Still it is small, weighing Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:23 PM by mjbrown | 2 Comments Filed under: Events, Humor, Other, SQL Spatial, 3D, Behind The Maps

• Virtual Earth at PDC

  This year’s PDC will have a session on Virtual Earth. We have a big release coming up this Fall and I plan on giving an in depth look at it for those interested in building location aware applications. This session will be ~90% demos and code to give Read More... Posted Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:40 AM by mjbrown | 2 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Web Services, Events, Mobile

• Tech Ed is Awesome

  I'm having a great time at Tech Ed this year. There are TONS of developers here and they are really enjoying themselves. I had my session yesterday on Virtual Earth. The room was packed, standing room only with probably close to 200 people in there. Among Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:45 AM by mjbrown | 2 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Java Script, ASP.NET, Web Services, Events

• Lounge Lizard at the Tech Ed Blogger Lounge

  Hey folks. Does my sense of humor bother you? Do you find my use of imagery in my blog posts convince you that I'm stupid or otherwise need therapy? Are you interested in having a conversation in person about Virtual Earth? Well here's your chance to Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:58 AM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Humor

• SQL Server 2008 Builder API Coming Soon!

  Isaac Kunen over on the SQL Spatial Team blogs about their upcoming Builder API feature in SQL Spatial. If you're a developer interested in building Virtual Earth applications you'll want to take a close look at our upcoming release of SQL Server with Read More... Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:00 AM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, SQL Spatial

• Mashed Event in London

  Our Multi-Map guys in the UK are partnering as one of the sponsors for Mashed 2008, organized by the BBC Backstage and giving gave away 100 free tickets. If you're in the UK get in on this now. Get Mashed at the Ally Pally - June 21st, 2008 We’re delighted Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 5:54 PM by mjbrown | 1 Comments Filed under: Events

• Anyone going to Tech Ed Orlando?

  Hey I'm going to Tech Ed Orlando . Well, actually I'm presenting at it. If you're going come check out my session, WUX208. Behind the Maps: The Technology of Microsoft Virtual Earth. We'll also be at, the Technical Learning Center as well and if you're Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:32 PM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Events

• Hanging at Where 2.0 and other stuff

  Just got into my hotel room at Where 2.0 here in Burlingame, CA at the SFO Airport Marriott. Got a nice view of the bay and the SFO runway right on the bay. I requested a bay side room not just because it's nicer to look out over water than a warehouse Read More... Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 7:40 PM by mjbrown | 3 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Events

• Evacuation Planning using Virtual Earth

  Microsoft holds an event every year called Location Summit. It's a two day event where we invite scientists and others who are deep into the mapping technologies to come and share in the research they are doing. I got looped into this thing to cover for Read More... Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:20 PM by mjbrown | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtual Earth, Events, Mashups, Cool Stuff