Podcast: Web Mapping Platform Migration
By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
July 08, 2008
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Take advantage of a special year-end sale on SPOTMaps, the 2.5 meter, seamless, color mosaic made to fit your area of interest. Save 25% off all SPOTMaps through November 10th, when you mention this ad! Click here for detailsLast week Ask.com moved off its longtime mapping platform to Microsoft's Virtual Earth. What are the practical choices these days for those who want mapping as part of their portals? Has customization and a unique look and feel been overshadowed by a few strong hosted solutions to which everyone will eventually migrate? Our editors sort out the options and trends and end up using the "c" word - commodity.
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- Ask Maps Now Using Virtual Earth (Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth, an evangelist's blog)
- Ask.com Migrates off of DeCarta. What’s the size of the self-hosted map market? (Steve Lombardi, Virtual Earth blog)
- Ask.com Moves to Virtual Earth (All Points Blog)
- Ask.com closes acquisition of Dictionary.com (Reuters)
- IAC to reap over $1.5 bln from spinoffs (Reuters)
- Placebase
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| A few more articles on the matter appeared today: Ask.com's New Strategy in Search: Focus on Answers (ReadWriteWeb) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/askcoms_new_strategy_in_search.php Ask.com turns over its online mapping business to Microsoft (Blogging Stocks) http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/07/07/ask-com-turns-over-its-online-mapping-business-to-microsoft/ |
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