Meetiing with the Microsoft Live team today. It's been very interesting.

Microsoft has a very cool little tool on Live.com that is still in beta. But it will make it easy for people using Live Instant Messenger to find the location of their various contacts and help organize a get together or whatever. You can try it out here:

http://dev.live.com/mashups/partycrasher/

Most of what they mentioned is under NDA but they are doing a lot of cool mapping stuff. They also wanted to remind the world that Microsoft has been doing on-line mapping and virtual earth stuff for a very long time.