The news is out , here , there and everywhere . Microsoft Virtual Earth and Windows Live Local are live with support for Australia. The developer features include: Geo-coding and parsing for Australian addresses Aerial imagery for major Australian cities...

Michael Scherotter over at MindJet just posted a great description of how he integrated Virtual Earth with the MindManager tool to plan a trip. Pretty interesting concept of how different tools can come together to provide a flexible interface for this...

This might sound lately like it is becoming a real estate blog, but I just got wind of this press release from Grubb & Ellis . The applications they have built so far are internally facing (VE is a great way to make brokers more productive, among...

Next week, at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference, where you will find Microsoft's Virtual Earth team in presentations, our booth, and around the conference, developers may want to check out the Microsoft Developer Day . Steve Lombardi , PM for the...