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Windows Live Services allow for the easy creation of mashups—applications that combine data or content from several sources into a new single integrated application. Using Windows Live Web Services APIs, developers can create mashup applications to meet an endless number of business objectives. The mashups showcase below illustrates innovative applications developed from creatively combining data from two previously separate apps.

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3d Geology Maps View geologic maps draped over the topography of the globe--so you can see the interplay between geology and morphology! This site is built on top of the Virtual Earth Map Control. This site overlays geologic maps on the 3D maps, letting you see geology in 3D! View	999 Search 999 Search provides a meta search engine. It aggregates results from Google, Windows Live Search, Yahoo Search. View
Adobe Flex Developer Jobs Board Using Virtual Earth a visitor is able to search for Adobe Flex developer jobs based on Zip code. One can also SMS a job posting to your cell phone. View	Adventure Works Resort A richly interactive social networking site with source code provided by Sharplogic and Microsoft. This site was created for the fictitious Adventure Works resort to demonstrate the ease and power of integrating Mapping, Contacts, LiveID, Alerts, VE and Silverlight into a single user experience. View
Air Force Recruiter Locator This is a mashup of U.S. Air Force recruiter office locations with a Virtual Earth map. View	Ajax Map Comparison Map Compare allows you to evaluate which mapping service is best. All three maps are locked together so panning, zooming and changing map types will effect all maps the same. View
AlertNet Map "crisis hotspots" around the earth and view latest news on each crisis. View	America 24/7 MSN Virtual Earth used to plot photos from the America 24/7 project. View
Background Motion Contribute photos or video and view those submitted by others within a Silverlight player. View	BC Ferries This website uses Virtual Earth mapping technologies and real-time GPS location data to display the current locations of all ferryboats in the fleet. Click on the thumbnail map of a specific route to view a larger map with current ship status. View
BMW TV Explorer Interact with a HD quality video archive delivered in a unique 3-D visualization of a highway drive through Silverlight. View	BugTv BugTV, a leading Croatian IT magazine publishes a video news show focusing on hardware and software reviews. The experience is delivered via Silverlight. View
Burien Streecar Line Overlay of 1923 map on Virtual Earth using MapCruncher. Shows the history of Seattle Municipal Railway's Division C, the streetcar line that once connected Burien with White Center and Seattle. View	BusinessITOnline Business IT Online offers free online small business software applications that take away the need for a costly networked IT solution. They host it, maintain it, upgrade it, secure it and back it up so all you need to do is use it. Enjoy the freedom and productivity of Business IT Online. View
California School Finder Compare California schools side-by-side in Virtual Earth with the latest school rankings, course offerings and information we all need to know to make great choices for our kids. The information provided on this Web site comes from the California Department of Education. View	Carbon Calculator Using Silverlight the carbon calculator enables you to calculate your total carbon consumption including consumption from travel, diet and home energy use. Using this tool one can offset their carbon consumption by joining in conservation efforts. View
Catalist Home Finder A comprehensive site combining Virtual Earth mapping with real estate data in Southern California. Search for properties meeting specific criteria. Hover over a specific property on the map to reveal address and price. View	CelebFavorites.com Click on the photo of celebrities like Anna Kournikova, Jeff Bridges and Alex Rodriguez to his or her favorite restaurants, hotels, parks, concert venues, and museums in the cities they call home. View
Century 21 Real Estate Real Estate website using Virtual Earth View	City of Cerritos The City of Cerritos provides multimedia content of city activities through Silverlight. Content includes public meetings, service announcements, educational content and video training. View
City of Miami The City of Miami is using Virtual Earth mapping software to develop online applications that provide enhanced public safety response, urban planning, and tourism services. View	Coldwell Banker Commercial Property Listings Search for Commercial properties using Virtual Earth mapping controls. View
College Finder CollegeFinder from GlobalScholar.com is vertical search for US Colleges and Universities. The site features in-depth information, including tuition cost and retention information, on over seven-thousand schools. Users to the site can also check out a birds eye view of the Colleges. The view is powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth and gives the ability to zoom and move about campus. View	Contoso - Bicycle Club A great example of what is possible when you tie Spaces, Virtual Earth and Silverlight into a single website experience. This site was created for an organization such as a bicycle club, the source code can be downloaded. View
Contoso University A site demonstrating Live Contacts, Expo, Silverlight and alerts working together in a single view. Everything a university student would need to stay in touch with friends and family. Source available. View	Cyberhomes Not just another real estate "homes for sale" site, this mashup is a comprehensive Virtual Earth powered research tool to discover regional or individual home sales statistics, neighborhood and school information, and more. View
Dare Obasanjo's Movie Finder Displays the locations of movie theatres and provides search functionality for session times. View	Deki Wiki Mindtouch provides the DekiWiki, a popular wiki designed to help users quickly and efficiently create cutting edge mashups. View
Detroit History This application overlays historical aerial photographs of Detroit over current imagery to demonstrate change over time. The site features aerial imagery from 1949, 52, 56, 61, 76, 81, 97, 2005 and 06. View	Deveload A Turkish Microsoft partner delivers their website navigation and examples in Silverlight. View
Dirtbike Locator Site developed to help dirt biker riders find places and people to enjoy their sport. Site presented in Virtual Earth. View	Dublin Transportation Office The Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) is an Irish government agency that provides transportation and land use advice in the greater Dublin area. The DTO website makes extensive use of maps to help Dubliners plan their daily commutes or weekend outings. The site, developed in-house by Peter Cranny and utilizing Virtual Earth, also promotes environmental stewardship. For example, interactive route planners include calculators that automatically compute the CO2 emission reduction realized when a journey is taken on foot or bicycle. View
EasyJet Chose a destination city, arrival, and departure date and view your choices in a map overlay of the city. View	eBay+Virtual Earth Puts eBay searches on a MSN Virtual Earth Map. It will try to locate your zip automatically. It works in the USA, UK, France and Germany. View
Elevation Calculator Using Virtual Earth this site demonstrates how elevation can be estimated by simply clicking a point on a map. View	Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency has a more consumer-friendly data resource thanks to Virtual Earth. Now visitors can access to environmental information associated with facilities and sites across the country. View
eppraisal.com A real estate site that gives you quick and easy access to information on any property in the US. eppraisal.com data is updated daily and pulls from a database of about 70 million homes. Integrated maps and estimated home valuations. View	ET Online Emmy's Watch video clips from TV shows nominated for the Emmy awards. Also view content on the nominees, winners, fashion and news. View
Experience Washington A rich interactive site that helps you find accommodations, events, activities, and things to do when planning a vacation or outing in Washington State. Locations and details of each activity are superimposed on a Virtual Earth map. View	Expression Around the Clock The Expression around the clock event Silverlight site provides designers with the opportunity to track and view Microsoft Expression events around the world. View
FameFor15 FameFor15.com offers the Internet Community a collection of tools and community-based resources that will enable anyone to have their own Interactive Television Channel delivered in Silverlight. View	FeedMeme Feed Discovery Searching for feeds by keywords can often be an unsuccessful process because of the broad vocabulary in use. Instead of a single keyword search, Feed Meme offers a multi-word macro search. View
Festival Mente Aberta With over 600 band submitted videos Epoca Magazine delivers a Silverlight experience highlighting the best new talents in Brazilian Pop music. View	Films For Learning The Films for Learning website currently features about 150 student-made educational films on varied topics including photosynthesis, Darwinism, and French. These videos are available for classroom and personal use. The site is powered by Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in development tool and Windows Live ID identity authentication system. View
Fishticuffs Fishticuffs is a nonviolent combat game—played within the Windows Live Messenger environment that uses animated fish as weapons of choice. Clicking PLAY on the site’s home page opens the visitor’s Windows Live Contacts list, ready to invite a friend to a round of virtual bashing (shown on the graphic). In an innovative extension of the game, the player’s comparative scores and ranking among his or her Windows Live contacts can be exclusively viewed on social network sites Bebo and Facebook through a downloadable application. The rankings make the game more competitive among friends, and encourages them to install the application and establish contact. View	Flash Earth Mashup of Google Maps, Virtual Earth and other satellite imagery through a Flash application. Select the mapping service to use and navigate to anywhere in the world or search for a location. View
Florida Movers Coldwell banker real estate property search website delivered with Virtual Earth. View	Fresh Logic Atlas A stylish mashup that helps you find information on gas prices, movies, traffic, local events, WiFi locations, driving directions, and more on a Virtual Earth map. View
Geekgirls Geek Girl Blogs uses Widows LiveID to create a central repository that brings these women’s blogs together in one place, to create a wealth of knowledge that covers the amazing strength, agility & force that is Women in IT. View	GeotagIt This is a mashup that allows you to visualize geotagged resources on a map. Import your del.icio.us posts or Flickr photos, share your collections and read RSS feeds. View
Gloposis Gloposis network is real-time GPS-GPRS navigation, GPS tracking and Internet position exchange system for Windows PCs and Windows Mobile PocketPC devices. It uses Virtual Earth as map source. View	GPX Plotter Plots points and tracks from a GPX file. Take a look at the developer on his bike. View
Group, The Inc. Northern Colorado real estate site powered by Virtual Earth mapping technology. View	Guitar Player Magazine's Guitar Hero 2007 Online webcast and video on demand site for Guitar Player magazine's 2007 Guitar Hero event. The finalists are showcased and the viewers are encouraged to vote for their favorite. View
Gym Alliance Fitness Locator Gym Locator is a Virtual Earth Ajax client for enabling users to locate Gym Alliance fitness clubs. Nice features include the search, direction control, the table below the map which updates depending on the clubs in view and the profile on the right which updates when the user mouseovers the clubs pushpin. If you click through to a specific club it also provides driving directions. View	Halo 3 Short Videos Watch live action videos told from the perspective of the Halo 3 world. Also watch content describing the process of building the Halo 3 character models for the "believe" commercials. View
Halo 3 User Guide Site providing Halo 3 users with interactive content covering the background story, information on weapons, vehicles, game settings and characters. All of the information needed to enhance the Halo 3 experience. View	Harley-Davidson Great Roads Explorer Combines great motorcycling routes on a map along with route information, trip length, and locations of nearest H-D dealerships and Best Western Hotels. View
Hide and Seek Hide and Seek is a game for MSN Messenger. One player hides in a MSN Virtual Earth Map and the other has to find him. He can ask 20 questions to help clue-in. View	Horsham Town Website The Virtual Horsham website combines Virtual Earth with new custom high resolution images for the entire Horsham town centre area. This is believed to be the first time that an entire urban area has had it's Virtual Earth images updated on this scale. The site also integrates Flash to play audio and display images that are streamed on demand from an custom asp.net application. Other data layers are currently in development that will allow qualifying other Horsham websites to add their own data to the map. View
Hydroseek Hydroseek is an ontology-aided search engine for finding scientific data on water quality and hydrology from approximately 1.9 million sites in the USA. It creates a unified view over databases of agencies such us Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, Texas Commission of Water Quality, Chesapeake Information Management System and individual researchers. View	iBloks The iBloks Video Messenger enables site visitors to watch and share videos while logged into Microsoft® Windows Live Messenger, a component of the Windows Live network of internet services. iBloks Video Messenger is designed to connect online video enthusiasts and instant messenger customers with an integrated 3D viewing and communication offering. Site visitors can view videos and share comments with each other in real time, eliminating the delay of sharing and viewing when done through email or when posted onto social network sites. Viewers can also post their multimedia experiences as a widget on their web pages, blogs or social network pages. View
Imagic - Andrea Broschin's photo blog Photo blog created with Silverlight by Andrea Brochin. Easy navigation with a thumbnail index and stunning images provided in high definition View	Indonesia ISV Indonesian Microsoft ISV's (independent software vendors) can view information and instructional content within Silverlight. View
Innebandy Swedish Floorball Assocation Floor ball is the most popular indoor sport in Sweden. Floor ball TV gives access to coverage of the sport through Silverlight. Content includes interviews with the top players and reports from various competitions. View	Interactive weather This map overlays The Weather Channel's weather information. It provides satellite and radar animations. The information you desire can be filtered and the transparency of the overlay can also be set. View
Italy BE IT Microsoft Silverlight site designed to build relationships with both developers and ITPROS by providing communications, dictionaries, contests and tutorials. View	ITL Silverlight Classroom ITL demonstrates an online training seminar provided within a Silverlight player complete with topic bookmarks View
James Bond Movies A Silverlight site which enables users to browse the catalog of James Bonds movies, watch trailers from the movies and purchase choices from Amazon. View	JiWire Location tools to find a hotspot anywhere in the world integrated into Windows Live Spaces and Windows Virtual Earth. Get the local weather and traffic reports, news, weather, local search and directions. View
John L. Scott Real Estate Real estate searching with Virtual Earth technology. Unique "neighborhood wizard" lets you draw the exact boundaries of your search. Hovering over the pushpins opens a window with property photo, price, and link to detailed information. View	Keeping up with the Jones This Facebook app allows you to connect to Zillow from Facebook. View information about your house and see what your friends houses are worth on a Virtual Earth map. View
KGI Wireless KGI Wireless are using a combination of MSN Virtual Earth and MapPoint technology to map its wireless towers and associated profiles around the USA. View	King of the Ring Watch highlights in Silverlight from the popular King of the Ring Russian TV show with Vladimir Pozner. View
KSCS 96.3 Listen to a streaming KSCS broadcast from any web browser running the Silverlight player. View	Lat49 Lat49 provides an advertising engine based upon map real estate. Participants can generate revenue from their Virtual Earth solutions. View
Le Defi Wind Watch clips and interviews of leading wind surfer competitors in the Le Defi Wind 2007 View	Learn About the World View Virtual Earth maps and find information about countries, states, and cities with one mouse click. View
Lebron's Bike-a-thon Explore the map of the "King for Kids" Bike-a-thon with LeBron. The marked areas on the map highlight exclusive video and pictures of the race event and the city of Akron. Explore the map to learn more about the bike-a-thon, how you can participate, and how to donate to the James Family Foundation. View	Live Contacts Maps the addresses of your Windows Live Contacts from Messenger, Mail, etc., using Virtual Earth. From the Windows Live development team. View
Live Search OPML Generator Helps users find RSS feeds and auto generates OPML files. Uses Windows Live Search API. Facilitates selecting feeds from root weblogs or comments feeds per user selection with support for international markets. View	Locale - The Random Day Out Generator This mashup automatically and randomly creates a day out anywhere in the UK based on your schedule and interests. An itinerary and Virtual Earth map route are generated, including previews and links to places of interest, weather forecast, and directions. View
LocateA LocateA turns your Java enabled mobile phone, or your PDA Mobile Phone running Windows in to a personal real time tracking solution, which allows you to track people, employees, lone field workers or children. View	Lodging Options in Buenos Aires Map of hotels, apartments, hostels and spas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with links to their websites. View
Long and Foster Real Estate Inc. Nicely organized interactive real estate site specializing in the mid-Atlantic area of the United States. View	LookLocal LookLOCAL is a unique online mapping and local search service. View over 6,000 traffic cams, view travel related KML files and import your own, search or get directions, and compare Google Maps, Yahoo Local Maps, and Live Search Maps. View
Major League Baseball Watch video highlights from baseball games, video commentary, and player interviews. View	Map My Fitness Site developed to share walking and running routes. Routes are presented within Virtual Earth. View
Map your MP Get to know any British member of Parliament. Select by location, postcode or name. Traversing the UK map with Virtual Earth provides a constituency grid and instant feedback of its local MP. Extra information provides anecdotal quotes and wiki entries for the local area. View	MapCruncher Very interesting mashup technique from Microsoft Research, MSR. Shows how any type of map image data can be layered on top of a Virtual Earth map. This example with bike trail maps. View
MapMate MapMate is a new way to update your Facebook status. You can plot your current location and set your status anywhere using Microsoft's Virtual Earth. View	MapSeeing Visits famous places through Virtual Earth and Google Maps. See Related Flickr photos. View
Mazika Have music playlists streamed to you based on your mood. Discover new music based on your tastes and navigate the largest Arabic music library using Silverlight View	Microsoft Flight Simulator and SkyConnect Flight Tracking A Sky Connect Mission Management Unit provides GPS tracking, satellite telephone, and text messaging capabilities in flight. Data is transferred between aircraft and Sky Connect via the 66 low-orbit satellites in the Iridium satellite network. Microsoft requests the data from Sky Connect and the aircraft's most recently reported position is presented to you via Virtual Earth. View
Microsoft Gifts View possible Microsoft gift choices. Choose your category and view the options in Silverlight. View	Ms Dewey Your sexy search assistant. Flash based interface as experiment via Windows Live Search. View
MSGuayaquil A video library of Spanish screen casts demonstrating several technologies including ASP.NET Ajax, Silverlight and Visual Studio Team System. Watch the videos in full screen or download them for later viewing. View	MSN Extra Search for and watch content organized by topic and popularity. Content includes celebrities, videos, and news articles. View
MSNBC Bridge Tracker Created after the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, this application utilizes Virtual Earth mapping to show the condition and inspection dates for more than 100,000 bridges in the U.S. that are crossed by at least 10,000 vehicles per day. The records come from the latest National Bridge Inventory, as analyzed by msnbc.com. View	Multimap The site offers street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe the United States and much of Asia Pacific; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information. Multimap also provides white label mapping services for other web sites, including basic mapping, proximity searching, routing, aerial images, and local information. Recently, Multimap has begun to integrate Virtual Earth and Windows Live Messenger. View
My City Map Provides local information and guides for thousands of cities in the U.S. Navigate to the city of your choice using Virtual Earth. View	My3DVistas Shows off the new features of Virtual Earth 3D. Users search for, or load via GeoRSS, interesting views within Virtual Earth 3D and then share them out via E-mail links. The first live application using the VE 3D map control. View
Mygeoland Location search for Australia in Virtual Earth. View	MyHome Real Estate Australia Search for Australian properties with the help of Virtual Earth maps. View
NavDog Use NavDog.com for finding community events, fairs, carnivals, charity events, sales, promotions, open houses, road side markets and vendors. View	Newsmap Virtual Earth An International News Map built with the Microsoft Virtual Earth API. Click on any region on the map and national news for the country is loaded. View
Next Experience Send a video card to your friends or loved ones including soothing music and imagery. View	North Yorkshire Mountain Bike Routes This application displays mountain biking routes in North Yorkshire. It displays both where each route is and the actual route. The site uses Ajax to get a list of points of interest and polylines. In the future users will be able to add their own content. View
Novera Election 2008 Learn more about each of the parties candidates including bio's, blogs, campaign finance statistics, and percentage of nomination View	ocarto a meta map mashup Cool way to create and save your own hybrid maps using several mapping APIs. This mashup layers Google, Yahoo, MS Virtual Earth, and Terraserver maps into one interface - similar to the way Photoshop layers work. View
Office Broker This mashup combines office space search from OfficeBroker.com databases for the US, UK, and 50 other countries with Virtual Earth mapping. Locations of selected properties are shown on a map next to a list of available facilitates and services. View	Optevi News Tracker Loads news feeds, extracts meaningful terms and searches for related news, blog and discussion pages. Allows the user to browse the news by articles or by entities. View
Ormux Ormux provides a Silverlight platform for media owners to create, exhibit, personalize and commercialize their content. View	OzChat OzChat is a free website dedicated to providing collaboration capabilities to individuals throughout the world. OzChat.org uses; Windows Live ID as global authentication (Except for the forums), Windows Live Custom Domains to allow users to make a "YourName@OzChat.org" email addresses, Windows Live Alerts to notify users upon new forum messages, Windows Live Messenger to allow many users to access chat rooms right from there messenger client, and the Windows Live Contacts Control appears on OzChat from time to time which allows a person to invite Windows Live Messenger friends to join in a live chatroom! View
Party Start Demonstration mashup showing integration of Windows Live Contacts with Virtual Earth maps. Choose people from you contacts list and invite them to places you select from a map. View	Peculiar Pit Stops From the nation's largest ball of twine to giant shrubs in the shape of dinosaurs. Stop, take a photograph and wonder how people have so much free time on their hands. View
Penza Investment Learn more about investing in commercial opportunities in Penza. View locations including maps and descriptions delivered in an interactive Silverlight application. View	Phizzpop The Phizzpop design challenge pits top interactive web designers against one another to push the envelope of web design. Phizzpop's site uses Silverlight to show example galleries, news and photos of contest venues. View
Podium Election Guide View the political contenders in the 2008 presidential election and search for their position on issues. View	Quiksilver Site dedicated to providing the surfing community with a place to receive dynamic tournament scores, videos, blogs and messaging. Users can watch videos and even upload videos to be viewed by the community. View
Raising From Ruin Rising from Ruin is an on-going MSNBC.com special report chronicling two coastal Mississippi towns, Bay St. Louis and Waveland, as they rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. View	Real Time Vehicle Tracker This app takes position reports sent to an ASP.NET server and plots them as gradient-colored pushpins. The map automatically refreshes at about the same interval as the position reports coming in. Right-click 2 push-pins and get some distance/speed/time info. Data is archived each day and tracks from other days can be recalled by using the calendar control. View
Redfin A comprehensive real estate site that incorporates Virtual Earth to find, sell, or buy properties. View	Reuters News Using Virtual Earth Reuters displays news around the world superimposed on the map of the world. View
Safarimappers Safarimappers use Virtual Earth maps to map most of the major National Parks, Game Reserves, Private reserves and concession area in Southern Africa and East Africa. View	Sampa A do-it-yourself website creation and hosting service designed to enable users to easily create sites using web services such as Virtual Earth, Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Del.icio.us and BlueDot. View
Save On A to Z Use Windows Live Search to compare prices from many sources including Amazon, Ebay, Half, Commission Junction, Shopzilla, Nextag, MSN, Sortprice, Google Blogs, and Google. View	SBSi News viewer A nationwide Korean news broadcast company in partnership with the ad agency 9fruitmedia bring news to the world through Silverlight. Video powered ads are dynamically intermingled with TV content. View
Screenedit Using Silverlight Streaming service, Windows LiveID, and Windows Live Spaces Screenedit has created a place where designers can go for inspiration and peer approval. Screenedit is the antidote to designer's block. View	Search Intersection Uses Live Search linkfromdomain and site operators to find the intersections of two sites, say most digged pages on YouTube, or most metafiltered pages on NPR. View
Search Mashup Community-based meta search engine that utilizes Windows Live Search and allows users to collaborate, discuss, tag, and link aggregated search results. View	Seattle HyperMap Atlas A Demonstration of the StrataVarious™ map system with "clickable key" and user-requested layered pop-ups. Our patented retrieval bars (or tabs) for filling Rich Internet layers give smooth, all-in-one-page access to large geographic data sets. Clickable icons geo-plotted via the MS Virtual Earth™ v3 API. View
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