Last week at the SES conference Yusuf Mehdi announced our partnership with foursquare and demonstrated a preview of the application that I’ve had the personal privilege of managing – woohoo! After much anticipation, I’m proud to present...

Looking for an apartment to rent? Condo? House! Bing Maps has you covered. Today, we’re announcing a new Bing Maps application called Oodle Rentals . The Oodle Rentals application displays rental properties around the United States. After loading...

Where 2.0 action continues with the release of the Bing Maps World Tour application which gives you a release by release breakdown of all the imagery updates we’ve published dating back to August 2009. Some of you may recall the World Tour application...

We made some updates to Bing Maps. In case it isn’t set as your homepage and you would like some additional context, I’d be happy to provide that for you. Here’s the bullet list: Walking Directions – Everyone in NYC will be relieved...

What is Bing Maps foursquare Everywhere? Bing Maps foursquare Everywhere is a mash-in application pulling in publicly available information from the foursquare™ APIs and placing information onto a Bing Map. foursquare users “check-in”...

Bing Search continues to innovate and the latest and greatest little tidbit involves a location browser for mapping out places in Bing Search reference results. If you do a Bing Search query for “The Hurt Locker” you’ll be presented...

A couple months ago we changed the Bing Maps Terms of Use in a post called Bing Maps Terms of Use Changes; Benefit Educators, Not-for-Profits and Developers . Well, we’ve gone a done it again. This time all you TV anchors are going to look so much...

About 2 years ago, I posted the announcement of Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope (WWT) – a project to map out the stars, planets, solar systems and anything not on the Earth (see WorldWide Telescope Now Available! ). That was some...

As I’m writing this I’m sitting on a plane from Austin heading to the Microsoft MIX conference in Las Vegas. I have 12 of the 16 new foursquare badges in hand, a brain full of ideas for what’s to come, and a brazen interpretation of...

We've just released an update to the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery . NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality into your own web site. This means you can be cool by having a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite...

About 6 weeks ago I asked the Bing Maps Product Management team about our presence at SXSW. A couple weeks later they gave me a panel. Then, they asked me to proctor it. Oh, and populate it. Hmm, this was a bit more than I was expecting to take on, but...

Last month we pushed out our largest amount of new imagery EVER in terms of square kilometers. This month, we’re blowing THAT record out of the water. You thought 1 million+ sq. km. was large? How about 6.7 million square kilometers! It’s...

As part of Microsoft Learning, we’ve updated our exam for application development against the Bing Maps Platform . What’s this all about? For those of you who are new to Microsoft Learn, it’s all about getting certifications. Certifications...