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What does a beautiful mountain pass, your favorite coffee shop, and your blossoming backyard garden all have in common? They’re all places you would love to capture and share, but a single photograph just won’t do. Today, we're introducing the official Photosynth app which lets you capture...

Today MSN launched the Interactive Guide to the Battle of Britain . The application was build by Microsoft-partner Shoothill and has 3 major components: 1. The TimeMap is based on Bing Maps Silverlight Control. It shows original maps, reconnaissance imagery and target documents of the German Luftwaffe...

For those of you wanting to see the devastation in Haiti resulting from the recent Earthquake, Bing Maps has published the new imagery online. Visit the Bing Maps web site to view the imagery first hand. The imagery Is 50 cm color imagery taken from Digital Globe’s new Worldview 2 satellite. While...

With 2 days before the release of the much anticipated movie, Sherlock Holmes, an online mystery game has been created to find out what exactly is 221B. The game is actually super fun because it pulls in your Facebook friends and chooses who will be your Watson (or Holmes if you choose to be Watson)...

Today is a day I’ve been waiting for. Today is the day that I can finally stop biting my lip and start blabbing to the world that YES we have Streetside photography in Bing Maps – woohoo! Today is the day we release our beta Silverlight version of Bing Maps and it is smoking hot. We’ve...

Last week at the Real Estate Connect Conference , I did a full hour-long presentation of Photosynth diving into the details of how it works, how to create a Photosynth and how to embed your Photosynth into your applications. In conjunction with my Bing Maps presentations, Aaron Sloman, CEO of speakTech...

A few months ago, Photosynth became a part of the Microsoft Virtual Earth team and shortly thereafter launched the availability for all users to create and upload Synths into our cloud storage. Of course, I had to take it a step further and integrate it with Virtual Earth - Photosynth Released - Now...

A few months ago I posted about the Seadragon browser that was published for iPhone allowing users to browse Photosynth and Virtual Earth on the Apple mobile device – Virtual Earth Via Seadragon on iPhone . Well, now there’s a new iPhone application made just for browsing Photosynths call iSynth and...

The sequel Angels and Demons to the widely popular (and for some reason controversial) movie “The Da Vinci Code” is set to release in theatres in May 2009. Until then, you can play detective in the online Angels and Demons, The Path of Illumination Contest / Game hosted by MSN featuring Microsoft Photosynth...

Photosynth was featured on the season 12, episode 7 of CSI: Miami titled, “ Head Case ” on CBS. As described on the web site, “ The CSIs use radical technology to unlock the secrets of a man's mind when he shows up covered in blood with no memory of where he's been. ” Microsoft teamed up with the production...

In partnership with Microsoft, CNN has published “ The Moment ” a Photosynth experience that allows users to upload photos during the inauguration of President Barack Obama which will then automagically be stitched into the potentially largest and “most detailed experience of a single moment ever.” Don...

Perhaps you’ve heard that the Live Labs team launched a free version of the Seadragon browser for iPhone …perhaps not. While the viewer is awesome and provides a killer photo viewer (arguably better than what comes with the iPhone) it also has Microsoft Virtual Earth included natively in the application...

Finding cool Photosynth’s just got a heck of a lot easier. We’ve just introduced a new way to explore Photosynth’s as a part of our Collection Explorer feature on Live Search Maps . 2 things - (1) how do you find Photosynths and (2) how did they get there?? Alright, so in order to find Photosynths in...

Feel free to bypass my blog and download Photosynther now . Photosynther is the client software to create your own Photosynth's viewable in the browser. Some of this post may look familiar to you folks who leverage search engine cache, but I've added some Virtual Earth integration to the post so get...