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On the 22nd August John and I participated in Technology Take You Anywhere 2008, an event to help encourage school girls into Technology careers.  We were placed in the Multimedia space up against the dance mats, game bikes etc. We devised a bit of a game where we’d show the girls an image of a famous landmark and they had to find it using Virtual Earth, an XBox controller and help from their school mates.

My second set of videos for the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control went up today. This time we look at server side clustering. If your interested in getting a really large amount of data in the control you should check it out over at liveside.net.

Released on Monday the new ASP.NET Virtual Earth control is very cool. I’ve spent the weekend sharing some of my knowledge of the control. Get the full set of 8 videos from LiveSide: http://tinyurl.com/veasp

The sample site is fully downloadable and shows the final outcome from the videos:

http://veasp.soulsolutions.com.au

We’re going to the extreme! We’ve signed up to do 12 interactive presentations in one day about Virtual Earth at this year’s Technology Takes You Anywhere event, held on August 22nd in Brisbane.

Yesterday we were fortunate enough to participate in the Brisbane Virtual Earth day as one of the customer case studies. As you can see below, there was a really good turnout in the Brisbane office.

The day included an introduction and overview from Peter, 2 customer case studies, an excellent masterclass by Johannes and discussion on licensing from Jen.

This is a big event going on right now in Sydney, Australia. We put together a little video to show all the places around the world the event has been held in celebration.

So you’re a Virtual Earth Developer, busy times, why would you want to sit an exam on it? I sat the beta exam last year and although caught out a little by the MapPoint Web services questions got a reasonable score.

Part of qualifying for the Data Visualisation Specialisation calls for 2 members of your organisation to pass the Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0: Developing Applications exam.  Ever wondered how many people have passed that exam? Well now you can…

The DeepEarth codeplex project continues to grow with more developers, discussions, work items and source code. Huge thanks goes to Shaun who has be building out a concept for the architecture of the control and Jonas who made a cool dashboard control.

I thought I would share a rather cool example of what you can do, a pin on the map that when you click animates to show a deep zoom panorama:

Today we launched project “Deep Earth” on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control.

Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun Becker, Jonas Follesø, Bronwen Zande, Darko Radiceski, Nicolas Boonaert, Rob Farley and myself John O’Brien. What a great mix of people!