Entries tagged with mashup - Channel 10

Get Addresses Using Aerial Photos in Live Maps

sarahintampa — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:19:00 GMT

Chris Pendleton recently wrote a mashup for Virtual Earth (Live Maps) that provides and address and a latitude/longitude whenever you click on any location on the map. After you install the app, click anywhere on the map and you'll get a pushpin. Hover over the pushpin and you'll get a pop-up that shows the nearest address to that point on the map as well as the lat/long of that location. He has now also added a link to the pop-up that will show you a Bird's Eye Photo of the location as sort of a picture-in-picture option. (see the picture to the left for an example). The app is available for download from his SkyDrive from here. If you want to help him improve the code, he has posted it to his site here.

Wikipedia / Virtual Earth Mashup

sarahintampa — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:48:00 GMT

Now this is a cool mashup and its built right into Virtual Earth! In Wikipedia, you may have noticed that some articles have coordinates in the upper-right hand side of the page that locate that place on a map. (See this example). Clicking on the coordinates from the Wikipedia entry will take you to you a map. But if you want to go the other way - from a map to Wikipedia - then you've got to check out what the Virtual Earth team has done. They've been indexing all these links in their Spatial Search and Explore indexes so you can surf the maps with Wikipedia displaying in the sidebar. If you want to try it out for yourself, turn on Live Map's Explore feature and then select the Wikipedia Tag, or just click this link to see it in action now.

Twitter+Email+Flickr+Virtual Earth = Twisney.com!

sarahintampa — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:35:00 GMT

What do you get when you combine Disney World, Twitter, Flickr, and Microsoft's Virtual Earth? You get the awesome site Twisney.com! The site lets you send in email, IMs, text messages, or tweets in order to update the Virtual Earth map with your photos and news. When you send in your status update to Twisney.com, they match it to a location on the map by looking at the first few words of your message. You can use an abbreviation, a paraphrased name, or the location's full name as found on your map of Disney.

Examples:

btmr, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!
thunder mountain, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!
thunder mountain rr, on the front car of the train, let 'er rip!

If you're emailing in your update from a mobile phone, just attach the picture to the email, and send it to these instructions. That way, all your photos will be available from one page: www.twisney.com/username, which you can then share with your family and friends.

You can keep tabs on other Twisney users from your mobile phone from the mobile version of the site: http://www.twisney.com/mobile/overview

All the photos sent in to Twisney are uploaded to the Twisney group on flickr. You can also see them on a map here.

MapCruncher: A Virtual Earth Mashup Tool

sarahintampa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:12:00 GMT

MapCruncher is a Microsoft Research project which uses the Virtual Earth API to import entire supplemental maps into Virtual Earth. By supplemental maps, they mean any drawn-to-scale maps you can find, be they bicycle maps, transit maps, national park maps, university maps, or antique city maps, just to show a few examples. But not only that, you can use MapCruncher to add your very own, Do-It-Yourself Aerial Photography to Virtual Earth, too. Their Gallery has even more examples of this.

The process of importing your own maps they call "crunching," hence the name "MapCruncher." To use MapCruncher, you just import your map then find 5-10 corresponding landmarks on your map and VE. MapCruncher will then register your map to global coordinate system and generate a set of image tiles based on your map and mash them up with VE's road and aerial imagery.

MapCruncher support both vector formats (PDF, WMF, EMF) and raster formats (JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP). To view a mashup, you'll need IE6, IE7, or Firefox version 1.5 or higher.

To download MapCruncher click here unless you need it for a commercial application, in which case you will need to visit this page instead.

Popfly Beta está aberto ao público

Galileu — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:43:00 GMT

O Popfly é uma comunidade em beta criada pela Microsoft para estimular a criação de mashups. Através de uma interface gráfica, é possível combinar diversos tipos de aplicativos e serviços Web em um único produto ou serviço final. É bem fácil de usar e há um tutorial passo-a-passo (em inglês) ensinando como criar os mashups. A comunidade conta também com um criador de páginas Web no estilo WYSIWYG (editor gráfico e não em código) que pode incorporar os mashups.

Dentro do espírito de Web social, esses mashups podem ser comentados, votados, compartilhados e re-editados pela comunidade. Além disso, eles podem ser incorporados no Windows Live Spaces, no Facebook, em páginas HTML, enviados por email ou até exportados como Gadgets para a Barra Lateral do Windows Vista. Como o Popfly roda em Silverlight, é possível acessá-lo via Internet Explorer ou Firefox em Windows, Safari e Firefox no Mac OSX e até em distribuições Linux.

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What's a Mashup? Jon Pincus stops by to tell us.

Tina — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:27:00 GMT

Jon Pincus (our resident Mashup expert) hits channel 10 to explain what a Mashup is and to share his thought on Mashup events. I've been to a few of these on the MS campus and there's lots of fondue and beer. You can get these MASHUPS and Live Gallery. A lot of the ideas that come out of these MASHUPS end up in next gen products. The goal is to create a MASHUP so innovative that it lands in the hands of the consumer. You.

It's Mash-Up time here at Microsoft and this time it's all about the ladies.

Laura — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:59:00 GMT

Another Mash-Up day where creative minds merge with technical minds and hopefully we all benefit from the pairing. If you DON'T know what a mash-up is then definitely watch this clip to find out- you might want to start attending an event like this near you. And if you DO know what a mash-up is, then you'll definitely want to watch this clip to see what our creative minds are up to and how a Women's mash-up day is different from your run of the mill mash-up. Basically, just watch this.

MASHUP DAY! A Meeting of the Minds at Microsoft!

Tina — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:07:00 GMT

A few weeks ago here at Microsoft was official MASHUP DAY! A day where all great Microsoft minds met and brainstormed on some innovative ways to search. There was a DJ, booze and of course the ever so popular chocolate fondue fountain. And not to mention lots of great ideas colliding together in the hopes of creating the next big thing. I was invited down by Jon Pincus and was incredibly impressed and inspired by both the ideas and the openness. I put together this fancy little video so you can see that not only does Microsoft put out some of the greatest software in existence, but the people that create it, like to have a beer just like the rest of us.

Check out the team's space at http://adastra-experience.spaces.live.com

Jon Pincus professional page at http://research.microsoft.com/users/jpincus/

The results from this and future mashup days will be coming to Live Gallery, Live Ideas, dev.live.com, CodePlex – and hopefully Slashdot!