Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft, web 2.0
Microsoft gives Virtual Earth and Live Maps a major overhaul
- Improved 3D cities with higher resolution textures, rendered trees, and thousands of additional buildings. This feature is only available in a handful of cities for now, but more are coming soon
- Export Collections to GPS devices in KML, GPX, and GeoRSS formats
- Improved modeler for adding your own buildings
- Labels added to Birds Eye imagery, letting you figure out what buildings or landmarks you're looking at
- 1-Click Directions maps can now be edited to add hotspots and popups
- MapCruncher integration
- Subscribe to RSS feeds for any neighborhood to keep up to date on activities in that area
- High definition videos in Tours
- Improved display of web-based KML files, including Google maps links.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
