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By: Google Maps Street View Heads Overseas

Google Maps Street View Heads Overseas — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:15:08 +0000

[...] Maps Street View competes with Microsoft’s Streetside and startup Everyscape, the latter also taking pictures inside of buildings as well as from the [...]

By: Mike Arrington from Techcrunch and the Photosynth hype - how far is real 3D web? « From SAP to Enterprise Web 2.0 (and into Virtual Reality)

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:48:55 +0000

[...] of a number of technologies, not very long. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen Microsoft Street Side and Virtual Earth as well as similar efforts from Google. But different technologies are now being [...]

By: Google Street View Adds Four Cities

Google Street View Adds Four Cities — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:49:09 +0000

[...] is working on competing products, but they are not as elegant or easy to use. See our coverage of Street Side and Virtual Earth [...]

By: NexGen Technology Blog » Microsoft Photosynth Covers Shuttle Endeavour Pre-Launch

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:56:56 +0000

[...] projects as well – see our coverage of Everyscape, Fotowhoosh and VisualSize. See also Microsoft Street Side and Virtual Earth as well as similar efforts from Google, which should eventually incorporate a lot [...]

By: Tecnología : Virtual Earth 3D... ¿mejor que Google Earth?

Tecnología : Virtual Earth 3D... ¿mejor que Google Earth? — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:51:12 +0000

[...] Virtual Earth 3D… ¿mejor que Google Earth? Microsoft acaba de hacer disponible la descarga de Virtual Earth 3D, una versión beta de esta herramienta que trata de competir con Google Earth y que, al menos en el modelado 3D – gracias a las texturas – supera a la fantástica aplicación de Google. // Es lo que afirman en TechCrunch, (vía LifeHacker), donde han probado la aplicación. Un dato curioso (y molesto a rabiar, pero así son en Microsoft) es la necesidad de descargarlo y utilizarlo mediante Internet Explorer 6 o 7, ya que desde Firefox no parece ser posible. El sistema trabaja mediante el portal Windows Live Local, un servicio que Microsoft ya tenía disponible desde hace meses, pero el nuevo plugin, que aparece destacado en el margen izquierdo de la ventana, tendrá que ser instalado y utilizado posteriormente desde Internet Explorer. Hay que hacer notar que desde Firefox sí se puede acceder a vistas “pseudo3D” capturadas por satélites desde un ángulo cenital,, tal y como demuestra este ejemplo. Utilizadlo en Firefox y lo podréis comprobar. Nosotros hemos podido ver la ciudad de Córdoba a vista de pájaro, y la calidad es asombrosa: No obstante, la verdadera capacidad 3D de este servicio sólo se puede utilizar a través del plugin, que como hemos comentado sólo funciona desde IE 6 o IE 7. Para quienes acepten tales términos, la aplicación permitirá, a través de la página local.live.com activar este plugin, que hace necesario una máquina relativamente potente y un buen ancho de banda para poder descargar y renderizar las vistas en 3D disponibles. Una de las diferencias esenciales con Google Earth es que todas las posibilidades son accesibles desde el navegador, una ventaja sobre Google Earth, que necesita ser instalado antes de poder acceder a las vistas en 3D, no accesibles desde la página maps.google.com. Otra de las novedades es la inserción de anuncios (”billboards”) de distintas empresas que están situados en diversos puntos estratégicos como si de grandes paneles publicitarios en la calle se tratara, y que suponen la primera aplicación “comercial” de este servicio. Por el momento están disponibles entre otras las ciudades de Seattle, Boston, Atlanta y San Francisco, y las capturas demuestran que la calidad de estas representaciones es mayor que la que ofrece Google Earth. Eso sí, en este servicio también se pueden aplicar texturas, pero no están simuladas por defecto. Cabe destacar también la existencia de dos servicios adicionales, aún en fase de desarrollo. El primero se denomina “Street Side Preview”, y es una herramienta curiosa de la que también hablaron hace meses en TechCrunch. La segunda, llamada Photosynth, conjuga varias imágenes 2D para construir una perspectiva 3D. Notas: Por lo visto, el programa no se instala correctamente si no dispones de la versión en inglés de Internet Explorer, para la que el plugin está diseñado. Publicado Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:46 AM por administrador Archivado en: Informática general [...]

By: dailywireless.org » City Clouds: Becoming The World Cup

dailywireless.org » City Clouds: Becoming The World Cup — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:15:51 +0000

[...] Other social networking projects that track people and their locations include Dodgeball and Plazes. Other interesting experiments in finding Wi-Fi access point locations are SkyHook, Wigle, and Microsoft’s Location Finder (part of Windows Live Local). [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Microsoft Virtual Earth - Now in 3D and With Billboards

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:48:33 +0000

[...] You’ve also got to wonder if anything will ever come of the really impressive Street-Side preview, which we wrote about in February. [...]

By: BiZwiKi.CN - 喧闹 PK 噪音 » Blog Archive » 绘图不止，战斗不息

BiZwiKi.CN - 喧闹 PK 噪音 » Blog Archive » 绘图不止，战斗不息 — Wed, 24 May 2006 13:59:47 +0000

[...] 在线地图服务提供商之间的战争继续延续着，即便当用户都感到厌倦的时候，Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com 还有 Mapquest 却依然乐此不彼的不断开发出新的产品特性与功能，加入到这场战争中。尽管地图服务对国内用户而言似乎用处不大。内行人看门道，外行人看热闹。凑个热闹看看而已。各家网站均提出了属于自己独特的个性化服务－其中有的在强调实用性，而有的则凸现自己在设计上的美工水平。上个月，TechCrunch 替我们比较了各大地图服务网站的服务，结果Yahoo 凭借巨大的覆盖范围，实时交通流量报告，以及提供灵活易用的API 插件而最终胜出。然而今天微软马上做出了反击：微软发布消息称旗下的Live.com Local maps 服务今天进行了一次重要的更新。我们对比一下Yahoo 的截屏图与微软更新后的Local 服务。 [...]

By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » New Features at Live.com Local Maps

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » New Features at Live.com Local Maps — Wed, 24 May 2006 11:41:20 +0000

[...] The online map wars continue to escalate, as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com and Mapquest compete to release new features – some aimed at usability, and some designed to be just plain sexy. We compared the online maps last month and thought Yahoo was the best overall, based largely on the inclusion of traffic data and the flexibility of their APIs. This morning, Microsoft will swing back with significant upgrades to its own Live.com Local maps product. [...]

By: Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog » Killer App Killer

Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog » Killer App Killer — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:43:03 +0000

[...] If you read TechCrunch you’d know killer new productivity tools {please don’t confuse that with a mere websites} with killer features are being launched exponentially, accelerating at a rate of 9.8 kF per sec^2 {kF = killer features}. [...]

By: dersonlwd

dersonlwd — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:46:45 +0000

good

By: mahadevanrajagopalan

mahadevanrajagopalan — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:43:15 +0000

it is interesting
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By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:24:33 +0000

Need’s some more work but it is vey cool …

By: Faith in Truth/Förtröstan I Sanningen » Technology: Microsoft’s Street-Side

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:55:50 +0000

[...] I was pretty impressed when I saw this on Tech Crunch. From their website: [...]

By: What did markchiang learned?

What did markchiang learned? — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:45:38 +0000

透過Microsoft開車逛街…

Microsoft 的 Live Local 即將有新功能了
這個 http://preview.local.live.com
連上去就可以看到上圖
用鍵盤上&#…

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:33:07 +0000

Go Street-side With Windows Live.com Local…

Have you checked out the new MSN Live.com Street-side Drive-by local mapping beta yet? If not, I would highly recommend you check it out by visiting: http://preview.local.live.com. Just as the name might imply you can explore the city from…

By: Resiny.org Links :

Resiny.org Links : — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:40:42 +0000

[...] Killer New Live.com Service: Street-Side [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:22:50 +0000

They should make this faster. I wouldn’t mind a little preload time for a smooth-scrolling ride. Vroom vroom!

By: ClickRich

ClickRich — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:51:43 +0000

Ryan mentioned this being a US-centric service. It’s only a technology preview so that was kind of inevitable. In the Channel9 interview there is an acknowledgment of how non-trivial grabbing the images is aswell of a mention of how they might make a “add your own” community feature.

By: Brad Thomas Design » Blog Archive » TechCrunch » Killer New Live.com Service: Street-Side

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:28:59 +0000

[...] TechCrunch » Killer New Live.com Service: Street-Side Microsoft’s Live.com is launching a preview version of a new service called Street-Side today. Street-Side will augment the Live Local service and give street level views of the entire city. Searches can be made by address or business name, and you can “drive” around the city using the arrow keys. [...]

By: Windows Live Local Virtual Earth at Blog . Jiboneus

Windows Live Local Virtual Earth at Blog . Jiboneus — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:41:52 +0000

[...] So if you wanted to take a drive on San Francisco or Seattle, try it out. LINK [ Windows Live Local Virtual Earth Technology Preview ] LINK [ via TechCrunch ] Technorati Tags: Maps Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Web2.0 Windows Live // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } [...]

By: anthropocentric

anthropocentric — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:33:02 +0000

Funny – take the limitations and constraints of viewing the world from within an an automobile and apply them directly to an online application.

Why can I change my field of view in only 90 degree increments (surely they could have taken 360 degree pictures at regular intervals, allowing for a practically complete field of view)?

Why should I see an ugly and obscuring dashboard?

I see that there is a “walk” view that shows a cleaner user interface. It is now clear to me that Microsoft forces the automobile metaphor and ugly dashboard to help explain the very-confusing user interface.

Microsoft! Nice signs of life but clean up your act please.

By: TechCrunch » Microsoft Expo Launches

TechCrunch » Microsoft Expo Launches — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:02:07 +0000

[...] Microsoft continues to roll out new Live.com services today. In addition to Street-Side, Microsoft just took the protection off of its much anticipated Expo classified listing service. [...]

By: The Streets of San Francisco (and Seattle) at migrosch.de

The Streets of San Francisco (and Seattle) at migrosch.de — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:52:04 +0000

[...] At first glance virtually driving or walking around San Francisco or Seattle doesn’t sound very appealing to me because I’m more for the real life experience. But it might be a nice tool for getting in depth driving directions. That way you have the possibility to memorize landmarks, which usually are not part of “traditional” driving directions tools. At second glance it stresses Microsoft’s growing eagerness to grab a large slice of the web 2.0 cake. In my opinion this new feature together will Microsoft’s other new web based services also shows that there are quite a few creative heads in Redmond who do their best to help Bill Gates take a look outside the desktop box. But I don’t quite agree with Michael Arrington’s when he titles his post abou this new service “Killer New Live.com Service: Street-Side“. It’s just taking another step along the maps/satellite path. Of course now the perspective has changed to street level but I think it’s not as innovative as for example the introduction of Google maps was. But that’s just my two cents. [...]

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:32:25 +0000

Ian – I agree, a Doom-like interface would be cool. I’d also like to have lasers and blow stuff up as I move around the city.