The Mindjet Labs

I like using the collections feature in Live Search Maps where I can keep collections of locations.  One of the activities that wanted to do was share a collection on my blog as an embedded map.  Unfortunately this isn’t one of the out-of-the-box features of Live Search Maps, so I decided to use Popfly to do it.  Since Popfly ...

Today I spent the afternoon at the Bandwidth conference in San Francisco.  I met quite a few people in the very interesting intersection of music and technology.  One cool company that I learned about was JamBase.com , a site for finding Live...(read more)

If you are developing applications inside of Microsoft Office or developing applications that work with Microsoft Office, then you've got to go to the upcoming Office Developer Conference in San Jose next month. I've been asked to demonstrate and talk...(read more)

I just sat through an earthquake; a bit shaking but nothing damaged; no one was hurt.  That gave me an idea: why don't I show earthquakes on a Virtual Earth Map using Popfly, Microsoft's new mashup service? Get Geo-RSS Data from the USGS Convert the RSS Items to Virtual Earth Pushpins Here are the Magnitude 5+ earthquakes for the past 7 ...

Virtual Earth has just been updated to Version 6 with a much cooler user interface.  I downloaded the latest JavaScript from http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6, updated the script file in the workspace, and this is what I got:  If you have added the Geo-Collaboration tool to your workspace and you want to to ...

One of the synergies that generated the most interest was one where I demonstrated Virtual Earth running inside of Groove.   Because of this interest, I have updated the demonstration to be able to track not only pushpins, but paths and regions as well.  Tomorrow (September 7, 2007) at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (GMT-8), I will be ...

I have recorded a screencast with Camtasia Studio that shows how I embedded a Virtual Earth control into a Groove Workspace.  If you want to see this in action, send me a message and I will invite you to the workspace.  I will make another post shortly on my workflow on getting the Camtasia screencast into a Silverlight Streaming ...

Following up on my post about putting Virtual Earth in a Groove space, I was able to save and load lists of pushpins that are in the Groove Space as well.  I have written some simple XML serialization of a Virtual Earth Shape Layer into a hidden data field in a Groove workspace.  Send me a message and I'll invite you to the space.

Draw relationships from one location topic to another and add route directions provided by Microsoft Virtual Earth. Version 1.0.0 Installation Download and install RouteMapping.msi Start MindManager Usage Create two topic with addresses or place names in the topic text, like ''1160 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA'' or ...