{"id":403,"date":"2005-07-28T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/HeyICanSeeMyHouseFromHere.aspx"},"modified":"2005-07-28T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T16:03:26","slug":"hey-i-can-see-my-house-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/hey-i-can-see-my-house-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I can see my house from here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>On Sunday most people got their first glimpse of <A href=\"http:\/\/virtualearth.msn.com\/\">MSN Virtual Earth<\/A> (well, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111214021701\/http:\/\/www.microsoft.com:80\/presspass\/press\/2005\/jul05\/07-24VirtualEarthBetaPR.mspx\">the PR started Sunday at any rate<\/a>) and frankly&#8230; it\u2019s pretty damn cool.&nbsp; Imagine the useful features of Google earth\u2026 but in a web page&#8230; no software installer needed (unless, of course, you\u2019re not running a modern browser, but then you\u2019re probably on a 200 baud modem as well).&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The site is cool for what it is, but it gets better, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051224063458\/http:\/\/spaces.msn.com:80\/members\/virtualEarth\/\">the Virtual Earth team<\/a> thought ahead and built in some cool functionality to allow people to create custom maps&#8230; so <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051222062720\/http:\/\/spaces.msn.com:80\/members\/siteexperts\/\">one of our architects<\/a> did.&nbsp; To the see the fruits of his handiwork go to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.start.com\/3\/\">the start preview<\/A>, click the down arrow next to the \u201cstart preview\u201d logo and select \u201cMSN Bloggers Map\u201d from the Popular Feeds\/Staff picks section.&nbsp; Voila, a list of MSN bloggers showing their office locations on a satellite picture.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Think about how fantastic this is; we\u2019ve made stalking accessible to the insanely lazy and clinically <A href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?FORM=TOOLBR&amp;q=define%3Aagoraphobic\">agoraphobic<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday most people got their first glimpse of MSN Virtual Earth (well, the PR started Sunday at any rate) and frankly&#8230; it\u2019s pretty damn cool.&nbsp; Imagine the useful features of Google earth\u2026 but in a web page&#8230; no software installer needed (unless, of course, you\u2019re not running a modern browser, but then you\u2019re probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41,16,21],"tags":[51,131],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techblog","category-usefulsites","category-tech","category-useful","tag-blogging","tag-useful-site"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}