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"Microsoft’s Bing Maps tool will soon feature tips and comments from location-based networking service Foursquare."
The "check in" battle is heating up. Yelp also announces "check in" feature.
-Cnet
Check.in is a service brought to you by the folks at Brightkite that allows those using a location-based social network like Foursquare or Gowalla to "check in" just once without having to do it with each service. MG Siegler of TechCrunch reviews the service that works with the aforementioned social nets. The new feature was introduced at SXSW and now it is only a mobile web app but the plan is to release it as a native app.
Jonas Stawski providers a step by step guide for "Mapping Your Data with Bing Maps and SQL Server 2008-Part 1." Let’s hope there is a "part 2."
In March Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg learned about a geospatial profession who is splitting his time between serving as the GIS manager for a Colorado County and serving as a volunteer with GISCorps helping the United Nations build a GIS to address the rebuilding of Haiti. Chris Markusun shares the chllenges and rewards of his dual lifestyle.
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