If you visited Bing Maps today you may have noticed a new look and feel. Well, that’s because it has a new look and feel.
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For the past years, I’ve worked closely with Yellow Pages (owned by AT&T Interactive) getting Bing Maps onto their Yellow Pages.com web site; however, they’ve also been working on some mobile applications that use Bing Maps. You can see the applications from your mobile browser
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MSN has gotten an overhaul. We just launched a new version of the Weather experience and I must say the map looks GREAT! See for yourself: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/
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Picture the Impossible is a community-based game developed jointly by the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
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Hoovers, a Dun & Bradstreet Company, just launched a new beta mapping feature on their site that allows you to lookup businesses and visualize demographic information on and around a respective company. For those who don’t know, Hoovers offers proprietary business information through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online services.
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CARFAX recently added Bing Maps to their online application to so carbuyers know where the dealership that’s selling a specific vehicle is located. For those who don’t know, CARFAX provides information about used cars in an easy-to-read report. They have more than 7 billion records in their database!.
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Ancestry’s new Family Tree Maker 2010 released yesterday and it includes integration of Bing™ Maps right in the software. Software plus services? I think so… Bing™ Maps is a great new feature to help you map out significant events and people to the places they are respectively associated with. For example, once you add people to your family tree you can then click the “Places” button in the menu ribbon. You...
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We just deployed 41TB of new satellite imagery, aerial photography and vector data for Bing Maps covering 189,000+ square kilometers of Earth including 12,000+ square kilometers of Bird’s Eye photography. Did we get your town this time? Check out the Bing Maps World Tour to sit back, relax and watch the Bing Maps Silverlight Control take you through every new local with new data. Alternatively, you can immerse yourself into the application...
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Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters? When will they get a web site? I hate calling people now; but, I’m anti-social like that. Ah, but when the lights go out there is a web site for you to log in to for reporting the problem to your local utility – StreetLightOutages.com. Built by iFactor Consulting, StreetLightOutages.com offers a complete solution allowing reports about outdoor light problems through the Internet…and uses...
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The Imagine Cup 2009 finals is in full swing. On July 3, 2009 in Cairo the winner will be announced for the most innovative project. The Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition, Imagine Cup is one way Microsoft is encouraging young people to apply their imagination, their passion, and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world – today. Now in its seventh year, the...
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