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Danny Thorpe, from the Windows Live Contacts team, has a good blog post about the new JScript control for integrating Windows Live Contacts into your web page . It is a chunk of re-usable script you can embed in your page, much like the Virtual Earth Map Control, for getting access to Windows Live Contacts in your application. So, why on the Virtual Earth developer blog? Well, a natural integration with contacts is location, and as the first examples of using the control show it is a snap to do. Check them out, plus some good articles on getting started with the control, at: http://dev.live.com/contactsgadget . PS - Danny repeatedly refers to the control as a gadget. I am not sure I agree with...
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The maps and imagery from Microsoft Virtual Earth aren't just good for marketing, business intelligence, and vertical search, they can be an important component of telling a story. The Windows Live Writer team recognized that and has built support for putting a Virtual Earth map (as an image linked to Windows Live Local) into your blog posts as easily as you would add text or an image (they made that even easier than usual too). Windows Live Writer is a tool for creating blog posts, complete with a WYSIWYG designer, automatic image uploading, maps, spell check, and more. As an example, here is a map of one of my favorite cities, Philadelphia, PA, that I have added to this post created in Writer...
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Chandu , Virtual Earth developer and author of Programming MapPoint in .NET, has an article coming int he next edition of MSDN magazine you may want to check out. The article is available on the web now and will be one of the cover stories for the upcoming print version for September 06.
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Lately we have focused a great deal here on Microsoft Virtual Earth as a key component of vertical search applications, from customer facing real estate sites to internally facing BI applications. But, there is also a great deal of utility to using Virtual Earth as part of your basic marketing activities, whether in your ads or in your website as a tool for prospective customers. Location is a key part of many (I would even venture most, as many analysts have) of the activities people do on the internet, whether it is sharing photos or favorite activities or finding a place to eat or a movie to see. Take advantage of that need for convenient access to local information to provide a sticker and...
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For anyone who wants to know more about the benefits of integrating Microsoft Virtual Earth into your application, we now have a number of case studies exploring the benefits some of our customers have received from integrating the platform into their solutions. This first set focus on one of the more prominent verticals to have adopted VE thus far, real estate, but the lessons learned will apply to any number of different application types as the case studies reflect a wide variety of architectures and target audiences for the the applications. You can find the new real estate case studies here: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/customerevidence/ce_realestate.mspx John L. Scott - Real Estate...
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Attention developers currently using or evaluating Virtual Earth Map Control or MapPoint Web Service; we’re conducting a satisfaction survey and would like you to evaluate the level and quality of services you’re receiving from Microsoft. This information will be used to identify areas where we are doing well and where we need to make improvements. This survey is being conducted by MarketTools, an independent research firm. Unless you choose otherwise, all answers and comments are made anonymously to Microsoft. The survey should take approximately 15 minutes of your time. To start the survey, please click here: http://deploy.ztelligence.com/start/index.jsp?PIN=138GC56MMWQBN Thank you for your...
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