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Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft, web 2.0

Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its web-based Windows Live Maps and it desktop Virtual Earth applications. Here are just a few of the new features:

• 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.

This release comes a day after Microsoft added ClearFlow technology which helps you select driving directions based on traffic predictions.

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Filed under: Video, Web services, Social Software

Make Me Sustainable from Download Squad on Vimeo.

You know you should go green, you want to make a difference but, how? It’s not simple, few things worth doing are. Make Me Sustainable takes an interesting approach to the green problem by giving you a way to track your own impact, and the impact of your influence.

Christina caught up with the guys from Make Me Sustainable during South By Southwest, and they gave us a lot to consider, and a great preview of what you’ll find at MakeMeSustainable.com

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Donut hole hole writes “AT&T and Comcast are using current successful P2P trials to argue to the FCC that there’s no need for strong traffic management or net neutrality rules. ‘Comcast’s statement, filed with the FCC on April 9th, hails an announcement by P2P developer Pando Networks that its experiments with P4P technology on a wide variety of U.S. broadband networks have boosted delivery speeds by up to 235 percent. This news, Comcast vice president Kathryn A. Zachem wrote to the Commission, “provides further proof that policymakers have been right to rely on marketplace forces, rather than government regulation, to govern the evolution of Internet services.”‘ Looks like Comcast only likes P2P technology when it can be used to serve its political and regulatory agenda.”

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Cutie Pi writes “Katherine Seidel, mother of an autistic child and an avid blogger has been subpoenaed for her “family’s bank records, tax returns, autism-related medical and educational records, and each communication concerning all of the issues to which [she] has devoted [her] attention and energy in current years.” The lawyer in question is representing a mom who is suing Bayer for $20M with the claim that mercury in their vaccines caused her child’s autism. In her blog Seidel has spoken out against lawyers trying to cash in on thimerosal lawsuits, noting that the thimerosal-autism link has been debunked in several studies. But Seidel herself has had no direct involvement in the lawsuit.”

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Techdirt is reporting that there has been a rash of reports indicating that red light cameras are being used to generate revenue rather than to promote safety. “Time and time again studies have shown that if cities really wanted to make traffic crossings safer there’s a very easy way to do so: increase the length of the yellow light and make sure there’s a pause before the cross traffic light turns green (this is done in some places, but not in many others). Tragically, it looks like some cities are doing the opposite! Jeff Nolan points out that six US cities have been caught decreasing the length of the yellow light below the legal limits in an effort to catch more drivers running red lights and [increase] revenue.”

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museumpeace writes “This community constantly chews on stories like the first sale doctrine and the endless maneuvering of RIAA, MPAA, follies of DMCA and DRM in general. I think of each of those stories as like trying to make sense of a particular earthquake. In the Huffington Post, blogger Jonathan Handel succinctly lays out six tectonic market and technology forces that provide a map for all of this. Sample his point #5, the media is the money: ‘Fifth is market forces in the technology industry. Computers, web services, and consumer electronic devices are more valuable when more content is available. In turn, these products make content more usable by providing new distribution channels. Traditional media companies are slow to adopt these new technologies, for fear of cannibalizing revenue…’”

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Brielle Bruns writes “Yesterday, Judge James B. Zagel dismissed claims against Comcast by e360. In the decision, the judge says: ‘Plaintiff e360Insight, LLC is a marketer. It refers to itself as an World wide web marketing company. Some, perhaps even a majority of people in this country, would call it a spammer.’ This clears the path for Comcast’s counter-suit.” e360 is the spammer that got a default judgement against Spamhaus, as we have discussed on numerous occasions.

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Wowsers writes “The Register reports that customers have found that their defunct or forgotten-about sub-domains have been taken over by Network Solutions to send users to ad pages. By digging through a 59K-word user agreement, you can find the following text: ‘You also concur that any domain name directory, sub-directory, file name or path (e.g.) that does not resolve to an active web page on your Web site being hosted by Network Solutions, may be used by Network Solutions to place a “parking” page, “under construction” page, or other temporary page that may include promotions and advertisements for, and links to, Network Solutions’ Web site…’” TechCrunch first brought this NetSol practice to light, and Ars explained how to opt out of it if you host there.

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Presto Vivace notes a report from the RSA conference on the cybercrime economy, and it’s not an optimistic one. Part of the problem is that in many places cybercrime pays much better than legitimate work, including security research. “As the panelists explained, a single spam message might be tied to as many as 10 separate organizations and perhaps five suppliers. Every task in the criminal economy has become a separate specialty. Some people sell e-mail lists, others sell lists of compromised IP addresses, there are sellers of credit card numbers, and those who sell access to bot nets. Then there are those who handle product fulfillment for spammers, and those who specialize in laundering money.”

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