Tag: virtual earth

  • Can Zemanta help you write better blog posts?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Zemanta is a really cool Firefox plugin which scans the content of your blog post as you are writing it and suggests related content! I first heard about Zemanta when I met Jure ÄŒuhalev, Zemanta’s Community Manager, at the BlogTalk 2008 conference here in Cork earlier this year. When Jure explained it to me I…

  • Live Maps Bird's Eye now includes (some) Irish towns

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    Tom Raftery
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    Via Clare Dillon the Virtual Earth blog and Martha Rotter on Twitter I spotted that Microsoft’s Live Maps now includes images of Cork, Galway, Carlow, Limerick, Navan & Wexford – cool! The Bird’s Eye button becomes active when you are over an area that Microsoft has detailed aerial imagery of. The image below is of…