<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a5efb92a-f584-4605-a0d2-c8f0c57e6f7a/A4F225E0-F08E-494A-999E-746C0FC7AF59/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-virtual-earth-now-in-3d-and-with-billboards/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-virtual-earth-now-in-3d-and-with-billboards/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-virtual-earth-now-in-3d-and-with-billboards/"><P><A href="http://live.com/"><IMG alt="" class="shot2" src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/livesearchlogo.jpg" /></A>Microsoft is unveiling its integration of detailed 3D imagery into its Virtual Earth this afternoon (see <A href="http://live.com%20">Live.com</A>). US users with Vista-ready Windows computers and IE 6 or 7 will be able to navigate through an aerial view of 15 select cities with enough detail to discern the texture of buildings and read clickable billboards from the likes of Fox, Nissan and John L. Scott Real Estate. Virtual Earth 3D is expected to expand to cover up to 100 cities around the world by the end of next summer. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-virtual-earth-now-in-3d-and-with-billboards/"><P>In addition to integration of Virtual Earth with search and some browsers, another thing you have to give Microsoft credit for is seriously improved picture quality. See the following two shots of San Francisco, Virtual Earth 3D on the left and Google Earth on the right. Lastly a very nice looking shot found on the <A href="http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%212BBC66E99FDCDB98%217573.entry">Virtual Earth blog</A>. Google’s got some catching up to in regards to image detail. I’m going to try to grab an image of a billboard when I can.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-virtual-earth-now-in-3d-and-with-billboards/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techcrunch.com/img/A4BE796A-AEB2-4BA7-B72A-73530395194B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-virtual-earth-now-in-3d-and-with-billboards/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.techcrunch.com/img/89A6D4FE-3C06-4501-A94A-2299B535EF05" alt="Picture 14.png" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A4F225E0-F08E-494A-999E-746C0FC7AF59/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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