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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...
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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...
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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 days:
If you are on popfly, come over to my page at http://www.popfly.ms/users/MS-Synergist. If you're not, it's free to join and start mashing up with a design tool created in Silverlight!
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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 use Virtual Earth 6:
- Edit each of the forms:
- Add the script http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6, to the form scripts list (it will take a moment to download)
- Save the form
- Save the workspace sandbox.
This solution demonstration has taken on a life of its own and from what I've been told, it has been shown to some pretty interesting organizations. Here's what it can do:
- Secure geo-collaboration
- It is part of a Groove peer-to-peer workspace which includes other tools like discussions, files, chat, and other tools
- Easily configurable and adaptable to solution needs
Here is an invite to the workspace if you want to see it in action:
New to Groove?
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Download a free trial version of Microsoft Office Groove 2007 and accept the invitation by clicking on the link below:
http://invitation.groove.microsoft.com/download/?Invitation=68A3A46B-9664-420B-9346-5598A129730C
Already Have Groove?
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Accept the invitation by clicking on the link below:
http://invitation.groove.microsoft.com/?Invitation=68A3A46B-9664-420B-9346-5598A129730C
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 software allows groups of people to work together securely as if they're in the same location. Groove has everything your group needs to share files, manage projects, conduct meetings, and get work done.
For more information about Groove go to http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidGrooveC103?clid=en-us
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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 showing this demo in a LiveMeeting and explaining how easy it is to adapt to various collaboration scenarios. Here are some ideas that came up in the Groove Workspace that is hosting the demo:
- Disaster Response (the recent fires in Greece)
- Tracking Alumni
- Service Industry Calls
- Bird Flu Response Teams
Please send me a message if you want to:
- Participate in the LiveMeeting Tomorrow
- Be invited to Groove Workspace where this demo is running
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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 application with picture-in-picture.
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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.
