The MSN Search team just announced the beta of Windows Live Local, folding Virtual Earth into the new Windows Live family of web services.
Give it a spin. They’d like us to pick up on the new bird’s eye imagery; spectacular, but as you’d expect, it is currently confined to major US landmarks.
However this is useful: if you right click and add a pushpin to any location, it is added to the scratch pad. Click “blog it!” and you are sent straight to your MSN Spaces blog (provided you have one and – this is the pits – they insist on Internet Explorer) where you will find a post already filled out with a link to your map and scratchpad.
This can then be sent, along with directions and photos, to anyone subscribed to your feed.
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