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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>My Thoughts ... : Web Services</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/donniew/archive/tags/Web+Services/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Web Services</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>FedEx's Web 2.0 Strategy Relies Heavily on Microsoft Virtual Earth</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/donniew/archive/2008/06/23/fedex-s-web-2-0-strategy-relies-heavily-on-microsoft-virtual-earth.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:40:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3076690</guid><dc:creator>Donnie Wilemon</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/donniew/comments/3076690.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/donniew/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3076690</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:7d0dfa14-86c9-463f-8f63-e7829fd774ca" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;&lt;div id="5f7bf79f-3665-42c2-ba36-5bea08b733c7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=e5f91a07-a233-4dca-a4d1-3b2bbf6544cf&amp;amp;ifs=true&amp;amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;amp;mkt=en-US&amp;amp;brand=&amp;amp;from=writer" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/donniew/WindowsLiveWriter/Fed.0StrategyReliesHeavilyonMicrosoftVir_C067/video11021f829e5b.jpg" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5f7bf79f-3665-42c2-ba36-5bea08b733c7'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf\&amp;quot; quality=\&amp;quot;high\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;432\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;364\&amp;quot; wmode=\&amp;quot;transparent\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; pluginspage=\&amp;quot;http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\&amp;quot; flashvars=\&amp;quot;c=v&amp;amp;v=e5f91a07-a233-4dca-a4d1-3b2bbf6544cf&amp;amp;ifs=true&amp;amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;amp;mkt=en-US&amp;amp;brand=&amp;amp;from=writer\&amp;quot; &amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/donniew/WindowsLiveWriter/Fed.0StrategyReliesHeavilyonMicrosoftVir_C067/image_6.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="99" alt="image" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/donniew/WindowsLiveWriter/Fed.0StrategyReliesHeavilyonMicrosoftVir_C067/image_thumb_2.png" width="244" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;David Zanka, Sr. VP of E-Commerce Technology for FedEx Corporate Services speaks about the success they've seen using Microsoft Virtual Earth with their customers locating key FedEx business points. I am very excited about this news and how it speaks to our real progress in the mapping space against Google. FedEx speaks to the power and flexibility of the product, in addition to the ease-of-use from a development perspective leveraging the VE SDK. Karen Miller, Director over fedex.com development, speaks to the competitive advantage that VE brings to FedEx as well. Obviously, with customer references as powerful as FedEx, VE is more than ready for the enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3076690" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/donniew/archive/tags/Business/default.aspx">Business</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/donniew/archive/tags/Web+Services/default.aspx">Web Services</category></item></channel></rss>