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April, 2010

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  • Grad Students Create TaxiCity Game with Bing Maps

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    What happens when you mix Canadian Grad Students, Silverlight, Bing Maps and the perfect push up? Well, apparently, you get Taxi City . Taxi City is an online game powered by Silverlight and Bing Maps Platform for picking up and dropping off passengers...
  • Bing Maps Platform Webcasts, April 2010

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    Today, April 22, 2010, is the last of 3 webcasts we’ve produced in April to educate you on using the Bing Maps Platform in the Enterprise. I’ll be hosting the web cast today (!!!) at 9AM PDT and for the first time you’ll get to see me...
  • Facebook Launches Community Pages…with Bing Maps

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    Facebook just launched in their Community pages which “are a new type of Facebook Page dedicated to a topic or experience that is owned collectively by the community connected to it. Just like official Pages for businesses, organizations and public...
  • BGI ThematicMapper Integrates Bing Maps into CRM and ERP Systems

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    The Customer Relationship Management data warehouses are jam-packed with location information, so of course there’s no better way to view them than with a map (preferably, a Bing Map). However, there’s so much more that you can do with all...
  • Florida Maps the Census with Bing Maps

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    The State of Florida has found an innovative way to map out their census results. Florida is using Bing Maps Platform to visualize tons of information they’re gathering as part of the national census taking place right now (fill out your census...
  • Maps 101: Educating Kids with Bing Maps

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    Maps.com is launching Bing Maps Platform in their education portal as the backdrop for exploring their massive repository of map-based information. The new site Maps 101 launches today! For the initial launch, subscribers (there’s also a free trial...
  • Adjusting AJAX Pushpin Anchors

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    I haven’t written a code-based blog post in a while, so it was time. I had a question recently about anchoring pins to a specific part of the pin image, so I had to chase this beast down. In the original VEPushpin Class (now deprecated) the Bing...
  • Where 2.0 Musings and Chickens and Lasers

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    Where 2.0, 2010 is over, so I figured I’d share a few of few of my thoughts about the show, the people and the industry. Overall, the show was the most highly attended yet growing year over year and topping 1100 registrants. It was an interesting...
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