{"id":37,"date":"2006-11-07T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-11-07T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T15:30:46","slug":"windows-live-does-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/windows-live-does-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Live Does Virtual Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/006636.html\">Google Earth Meets Windows Live &#8220;Virtual Earth&#8221;<\/a> Search Engine Roundtable &#8211;<br \/>\nExtremely impressive release by Microsoft with Virtual Earth. It is basically a Google Earth product with &#8220;dramatic 3-D mapping&#8221; in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.searchenginewatch.com\/blog\/061106-170532\">Windows Live Local Gets &#8220;Virtual Earth&#8221; 3-D Cities<\/a> Search Engine Watch (Greg Sterling)-<br \/>\nTomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window. Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the &#8220;urban core&#8221; of 15 U.S. cities: San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit, Phoenix&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=us\/10-0&#038;fp=4550a7c0f8c6f2fb&#038;ei=CZNQRe2LI7TIHMSuxb4K&#038;url=http%3A\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Google\/index.php%3Fp%3D379&#038;cid=0&#038;sig2=QnjlL9yAIkphQMGJRIW2_g\">Microsoft tries 3D maps, fails<\/a> ZDNet &#8211;<br \/>\nA very cool (but for me, almost unusable) version of Virtual Earth was released today by Microsoft called &#8220;Virtual Earth 3D&#8221;. Instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I, being a Mac guy on a PowerPC, have not been able to see this work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Earth Meets Windows Live &#8220;Virtual Earth&#8221; Search Engine Roundtable &#8211; Extremely impressive release by Microsoft with Virtual Earth. 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