Archive for May, 2005

Virtual Earth

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=71140

Microsoft’s answer to Google Maps due this summer. I’m downloading the 127Mb video right now, and hoping it’ll be decent enough quality to get a good feel for what’s to come. Since a good deal of interest in Google Maps seems to have been through its hackability (although I don’t imagine they planned that), I hope that/wonder whether Microsoft will include some kind of API for custom datasets. If so, look forward to an enslaught of third party overlays and datasets.

Firefox warning

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

http://secunia.com/advisories/15292/

If you’re a Firefox user it’s well worth reading this link and taking the appropriate action - Secunia think it’s rather serious.