FedEx Launches Enterprise Mashup to locate dropoff Locations

<p>FedEx didn't just update their locator this week, they launched an <a href="http://www.blinkgeo.com/2007/09/are-you-on-the-enterprise-mashup-bandwagon/" target="_blank">Enterprise Mashup</a> allowing users to find dropoff locations in a 3 dimensional virtual world right in their web browser. Seriously, I'm not even sure what an Enterprise Mashup is, but I suspect its a web application from a company that trades actual goods and services for currency.* A quick <a href="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q="Enterprise+mashup"+" target="_blank">web search</a> for "Enterprise Mashup" revealed a company specializing in Enterprise Mashups since 2001 and another selling an 'Enterprise Mashup Server' :-) <p>Back* to the topic at hand - FedEx has been a MapPoint customer for a number of years and recently updated their public facing drop box locator to use the VE map control. Details on <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2007/09/26/fedex-integrates-virtual-earth.aspx" target="_blank">Chris's VE dev blog</a>. Click the image below to try it out. Well done with lots of powerful filtering options. <p><a href="http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pTcqBXnZTBA9NRQ3w7WZC-RRolCKwPi4YuQ1R9ljizIDScx7xOYa6-n2JVhV_9byi4zRb8Tno0os?PARTNER=WRITER"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px" height=540 alt=image src="http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pTcqBXnZTBA8aEcjUdd3SpuxFQtNF_blIw1ruAwI6EieV9z-kYkvM3B3_PWbx_cXstV--glnhr8A?PARTNER=WRITER" width=594 border=0></a> <p>And because its the end of the week and you could all use a laugh, here' my favorite Fedex Kinkos ad that's been getting a lot of play during football this year: <p align=center>"Car Office"<br><a href="http://www.fedex.com/us/about/unitedstates/advertising/tvads/player1.html?link=4"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px" height=292 alt=image src="http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1pTcqBXnZTBA89wSokA_m0aTMTWlYnhmQz8gr2iO67CzDDwsz Tr1Bv5Z0J0JabMxrfWa281PeJ680?PARTNER=WRITER" width=317 border=0></a> <p>Have a great weekend! <div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Fedex" rel=tag>Fedex</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Enterprise Mashup" rel=tag>Enterprise Mashup</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Virtual Earth" rel=tag>Virtual Earth</a></div><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3151506992847969176&page=RSS%3a+FedEx+Launches+Enterprise+Mashup+to+lo cate+dropoff+Locations&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=88469&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=virtualearth.spaces.live.com&GT1=virtualearth">

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