Okay, now Google Earth made everyone go..."OMG!". Well, this will too!
Windows Local Live is basically a computer game on steriods linked into Microsofts own mapping technology. It is quite scary how they manage to get photos for all views along all streets. The implications for this are unbelievable. These pictures include people, cars in the roads etc. Would be interesting to see the privacy laws behind this!
Finally M$ is listening too because this works in Firefox...which makes a change from having to load up things like MSDN and other M$ sites in IE for full functionality!
On another scary note...Yahoo are busy whacking out all sorts of API's to their technologies in the hope that developers will start tying these things into their apps. The
Google Gallery basically is a community to promote these APIs and showcase the 'mashups' that are created using them like a Flickr puzzle.