New stuff with Microsoft

In the Harry Shum's keynote speech at WWW 2008 and one of the industrial tracks by Tao, Microsoft feature the following two search services, one called virtual earth and the other photosynth. They look like fun. Definitely, we should try them out.

• http://maps.live.com (does not only provide satellite image which is low resolution but also aerial views taken by airplanes flight-by)
  

• http://www.labs.live.com/photosynth/ (it's an amazing way to view the photos people took and published on the net)