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Programmable Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
... some of the recent ways in which ads are likely to work their way onto an online map. Last week, Chris Pendleton, Microsoft’s Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist, outlined how advertisers can include ‘highlighted’ ads as part of query results on Virtual Earth . In essence, highlighted ads are records contained within standard search results that include special formatting, branded icons,...
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LiveSide (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
What would happen if there was an Earthquake? How many buildings and bridges will be damaged and how many casualties to expect? All this can be estimated a bit easier now with InLET , a web based GIS application which uses Microsoft Virtual Earth . Chris Pendleton writes: Earthquake damage assessment just got a little easier. In the spirit of the close of the ESRI User Conference , I...
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D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
... native to Virtual Earth there’s a new service from TerraPixel called “ Image Patch ,” revealed Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist. Microsoft is, in fact, permitting Image Patch to leverage Virtual Earth’s raster overlay capabilities. In this context, through TerraPixel’s service, users will be able to render their own content and add it to what is available in Virtual...
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All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
From Chris Pendleton's Blog : No longer is Photosynth just a Live Labs research project - it no(w) has full funding and backing from the Virtual Earth team. It helps that we get all of the people that worked on it too. Recall that Photosynth can take a pile of photos of the same location/feature, "match" them up, and display the "photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing...
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The Road to Know Where (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
We've all played with programs like Group Shoot that stitch photographs together -- but Microsoft's first public demo of Photosynth showed this was possible in 3 Dimensions ! So I was excited to read on Chris Pendleton's MSDN Blog that "Microsoft's Photosynth Team Merging With Virtual Earth" . I always felt these two services belonged together. Our near future includes many mobile devices...
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LiveSide (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Chris Pendleton is reporting today that the Photosynth team is moving into the Virtual Earth product group. Ever since the launch of Photosynth there's been much discussion about the natural synergy of it and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Well, it's now official that you can begin additional speculation on what it means that we've moved the Photosynth team into the Virtual Earth product group....
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James Fee GIS Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Chris Pendleton notes on his blog that Microsoft has released trueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D for free. I think most of us thought this would be the eventual result of Microsoft’s acquisition of Caligari so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. I’ll be honest in that I’ve never used Caligari tools, only SketchUp and [...]
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D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Chris Pendleton announced the free availability of “TrueSpace 7.6”, which’s directly connected into Live Search Maps for you to create high resolution 3D models using trueSpace, then right from the environment upload the model into Live Search Maps as a collection item. Once you’ve created your collection, you can import your collection into your Virtual Earth application [...]
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All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
This is the next phase after Microsoft acquired Caligari (apb post ) and its trueSpace 3D toolkit last year. Chris Pendleton at the Virtual Earth, Evangelist's blog explains and provides an answer to "how to make money with 3D ."
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
In case you missed it, Chris Pendleton announced in his blog post yesterday we are now providing the full trueSpace 7.6 3D tool as a free download. This is really cool for a number of reasons, not least because a) trueSpace is a serious 3D tool that has previously retailed at hundreds of dollars and b) because you can upload your creations into Virtual Earth for all to see. It's interesting...
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LiveSide (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Chris Pendleton has a long post today about TrueSpace 7.6, and on his blog and also on the TrueSpace website there are some truly amazing renderings. Check out some of the animations, along with the video on Chris’s blog. Using Live Maps Collections, or VE Map Controls , images such as these can now be rendered in TrueSpace, and added to Live Maps or Virtual Earth. We wrote earlier...
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Mashable (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... backed by Microsoft’s Virtual Earth team. One step closer to real-world implementation, it seems. Chris Pendleton posted about the transition earlier today on his MSDN blog, which subsequently received a nod by Kip Kniskern of LiveSide.net . For now, Photosynth is still a free preview available for download from its Live Labs page. And you can take a tour through some videos of what...
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D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Chris Pendleton notifies that he has added a little non-Virtual Earth map to his blog. What?! A non-VE map, what’s up with that? Well this WorldMap can also display a Virtual Earth map! “What was most interesting is that as I was discovering this whole WorldMaps/ClustrMaps thing this guy from inside Microsoft was talking about WorldMaps on [...]
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LiveSide (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Evangelist, added a little Non-Virtual Earth map to his blog . What?! A non-VE map, what’s up with that? Well this WorldMap can also display a Virtual Earth map! Thanks to Chris Pendleton: …What was most interesting is that as I was discovering this whole WorldMaps/ClustrMaps thing this guy from inside Microsoft was talking about WorldMaps...
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Ah yeah. I’m so happy I can talk about this now. Chris Pendleton’s got the scoop here on the upcoming release of our MapPoint 2009 product for businesses and Streets & Trips 2009 for consumers, coming out September 1st. The work they did on this version is AWESOME with a new UI that is really cool. Check out Chris’ blog for screen shots and all the details.
