On Sept 26th the Virtual Earth Platform Team Blog made an exciting announcement that I only discovered today, the release of Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Service SDK 1.0. This new SOAP-based Virtual Earth Web Services provides access to the Virtual Earth platform with a completely developer-defined user interface! The platform supports: Mobile-optimized static map images Direct map tile access One-box search Reverse geocoding Routing This is very exciting as it truly enables developers to create custom solutions on...
One very neat new Live offering is Office Live Workspace. This products gets very little attention so I decided to once again blog about it in the hopes of spreading the word.
The basic idea behind Live Workspace is to provide a web-based “service” that lets you share your Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office documents in a shared secure webpage on the Internet. You can invite your family, friends and co-workers to specifics items or areas so its really a powerful collaboration tool.
Even without collaboration though its a great way to have your documents on-the-go and avoids having to email...