MSN announces a $1,000 contest for the best use of Virtual Earth using the Javascript library applications: Submission of entries before October 14th.


MSN has updated its Virtual Earth Licensing and announces a contest using the applications made available for non-commercial purposes.

The contest has a prize money of $1,000 awarded for the best use of Virtual Earth in an application, to be judged on several criteria, including “cool and sexiness factor.” Entries have to be submitted before October 14th.

MSN has made it possible for commercial developers to take advantage of a new license and build Virtual Earth maps into their applications.

MSN’s Search team disclosed on its blog and at PDC 2005 that the Javascript library for building non-commercial applications will be available in a commercial version. That version can be found at the ViaVirtualEarth site.

The commercial version will not be charged, but there will be one requirement: “The geographical local search (What/Where search boxes in the current Virtual Earth application) are included in the application”

Other commercial licenses will be available in January including, “advertising revenue shares and pay-per-use options”.

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