The World Wide Telescope integration with Bing maps was first demoed back in February at TED and today has been released as a Map App for everyone, anywhere to try out. After playing around with it for a few minutes I have found to work exactly as I would expect it too and with plenty [...]

Earlier this week an article was posted prematurely on the Bing Blog which was about a new feature to allow users to embed a Bing Map on any website with the Twitter Map App features overlaid. Below you can see the options for the widget which is very easy to set up and embed with [...]

When news came out that Microsoft UK was readying ads with the first being about directions to Euston Station the steakdigital.co.uk blog was quick to note that Bing didn’t really do well at providing directions to the station, as seen below. However today, following the airing of Bing’s first UK TV ads, when I did [...]

I have just been DMed by Jamie Thomson (@jamiet) who pointed me to the Twitter search of “searchfest bing” which is full of people singing their praises for Stefan Weitz (@Stefanweitz) and some of Bing’s features, especially Bing Maps. Most of the tweets seem to be commenting on just how funny Stefan is, some people [...]

Earlier I noticed (however my host was having more issues so I couldn’t pot this when I saw it and then had a day of uni) that Chris Pendleton had written a new post about Bing Maps on Windows Phone 7 Series, this article didn’t say much other than to expect a lot more about [...]

Yesterday @Solar257 ( a Zune MVP) was having some issues uploading a video from a speech at the MVP Summit at Microsoft which I was hoping to watch as it was about Bing on Windows Phone 7 Series and the iPhone. Well I see the video has now been uploaded and I can watch it [...]

As Liveside just pointed out TED have uploaded the video of the Bing presentation at the 2010 conference from Wednesday. Its shows everything announced on Wednesday including Streetside Photos, a truly stunning piece of technology demoed and already added to Bing, and things like real-time video overlay and integration with World Wide Telescope. Surely people [...]

Bing Maps have released a new Map App for its Silverlight version that allows users’ geotagged, photos to be pulled from Flickr and overlaid to the exact position in the real world called Streetside Photos. The results of this can be absolutely stunning as seen below. Currently this feature only works in Seattle, San Francisco and Vancouver (should [...]

Liveside posted an excellent article yesterday about various Microsoft technologies and services will be covering the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and it appears Bing Maps have just released another way of finding out about the sporting event with a new app, only for the Silverlight version of Bing Maps obviously. You can find the 2010 [...]

Just by chance I decided to play around on the new version of Bing Maps and stumbled across this. That is apparently the view when looking down West 37th Street in Chicago but as you can clearly see this is back of the van the camera was mounted on and I think I know the [...]