Competition

Friday, December 9th, 2005

GYM (Google, Yahoo and Microsoft) are pulling out all of the stops to create the best service based websites. While we’ve had web based email for quite a while (Hotmail etc), it took gmail to really get the ball rolling.

Then they launched gMaps, which microsoft basically copied (and relatively poorly I might add) with their Virtual Earth site. Now, they’ve really thrown down the gauntlet with Windows Live Local. I haven’t had much of a play around with it, but they have “Bird’s Eye Imagery”, which is just stunning.

I mean, do you want to see Carol and Marc’s house?