Available now! I saw Amazon doesn’t have it yet, but other online retailers might have it in stock. It’s always mis-leading however and for a new product like this you have to be careful about expectations on delivery time.
In any case, I think your best bet is to order through is at www.mappoint2009.com. you will get a 6 month “Plus” membership on MapForums including all those tools and support. See www.mapforums.com
Eric
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We are starting to promote and sell MapPoint 2009 on MapForums.. it is at www.mapforums.com
MapPoint 2009 is the sixth version of the product, the previous versions have been MapPoint 2000, MapPoint 2001, MapPoint 2002, MapPoint 2004, and Microsoft MapPoint 2006.
Major development and promotion occurred up until the MapPoint 2002 version. MapPoint 2004 and MapPoint 2006 introduced some nice new features and data refreshes, but otherwise had minimal API changes.
MapPoint 2009 has a complete new look and is expected to mark a shift in the trend so that we will start to see active development and promotion of the MapPoint product.
References: Map Forums, MapPoint 2009
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In the world of Internet marketing many professional SEO consultants debating the idea that the rel=nofollow tag applied to certain links does not pass any link authority. Google came up with this tag years ago as a means to combat comment spam in blogs since blogs were rapidly on the rise at that time. They figured that implementing the nofollow tag would discourage comment spammers from trying to build inbound links from blogs. Well it has worked fairly well. However, organic SEO consultants are starting to use the tag on internal links to funnel the flow of link juice from the homepage to specific internal pages in order to boost the authority of the internal pages. Blocking links off the homepage to pages like About Us, Privacy Policy, and other pages that are not specifically organic landing page targets has proven to be an excellent strategy.
But now paid link sites are starting to use it, claiming that link juice is still passed through and that they need to do it or else Google will penalize them! Well if it still passed link authority then why the heck would Google approve of this? Studies are also showing that blog comment links that are nofollow are showing up in backlink reports within Google’s Webmaster tools. That makes things even more confusing. Let me know your thoughts and experiences with this.
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I found these pictures of Chicago in the Winter by typing “Chicago Winter” into the Google Image search page, here is a direct link:
http://images.google.com/images?q=chicago+winter
Aren’t we clever?
Anyway, I think this one is my favorite.. click to go to the site and view a larger image:
Brr.. doesn’t that make you feel cold? Our building is over there behind the other one.
Eric
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Two new images in just two days! This time we have taken a photo of the Chicago skyline with Lake Michigan steaming up in front.
I have witnessed this a few times this year, I believe it happens when a warm current underneath upper level of very cold water and ice upswells as it reaches the shore… the warm water touching the frigid air causes the steam.
To view this new image, click on any individual post. Either click on the title of a post, or click on any of the items in the Recent Entries list on the soft right (not the far right column, but sort of like the middle column).
So, we’ve replaced the default Cutline headers 1, 2, and 3. I’m not actually sure where the headers 4 and 5 are used, so we might be done at least for now.. I’m not totally satisfied with the new “Pages” picture we put up yesterday, but we’ll live with it for now.
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The “Pages” section now includes a picture of another Frosty baby.. ever since this site was set up, there has been a little girl in a jacket with patches of snow in the background.
Now we have also pasted another picture for the Pages section. It’s a bit darker. To view it, click on Archive or About in the row above. Believe it or not, although it was in the middle of the day and sunny, we were in the shadow of a building and it looks like dusk.
Next we need custom pictures for the Categories and Months! If you would like to contribute a picture, please post below in the comments.
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My wife used to be a big fan of Minesweeper. Well I have to admit I was a good player once too, but I never came close to her record score in this game.
I don’t know where to submit high scores for Minesweeper or how this ranks overall, but I’m sure it’s pretty good! Have you done better? Let us know by posting your high scores below.
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Here’s the last three of a list of links that were found on the home page index of webfrost.com for many years.
Interestingly, this site exists - it was launched as a bona fide. legitimate Wiki site last year along with a partner, Wilfried Mestdagh. I actually did a bit of work on this recently, updating the graphic and installing the latest version of MediaWiki.
This link is actually broken. At one time we considered making it a GIS media aggregation site using content from web-mapper.com (which seems to no longer exist), mp2kmag.com (which I still update), and directionsmag.com (which is going strong).
Phone’s, PDA’s, and Mobile Devices
This link was also broken (fixed now), it points to a Amazon affiliate site for phones.
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This post continues the run down of the various links that used to be found on the webfrost home page.
This link to the page that used to be the “store” on the MP2Kmag site - the self-proclaimed independent Magazine for MapPoint.
This links to the Companies subpage of MP2Kmag. This list comes from an old list of MapPoint Partners when MapPoint 2002 was released. They had a decent business development effort going on at the time, and they signed up dozens of companies eager to get referrals as MapPoint Partners. This later was winnowed down to actual Certified and Gold partners and this list no longer exists except at the copy of it that I had lifted for the MP2Kmag site. It seriously needs to be updated!
This was a copy of the MapPoint authors page - the actual place for this is here, it was just copied as a snapshot at some point in the past. Interestingly again it looks like there’s some broken Amazon code at the bottom. Also, it was interesting to see the Maps.com affiliate graphic! I was trying to make money via CJ.com for some time and finally gave up when they terminated my account for not making enough money :-O.
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The old WebFrost site sat for decades it seemed collecting dust and otherwise just sitting there doing nothing for everyone to see. It was a scratchpad in essence for various programming attempts and in fact had some Google Adsense code at the top.
The old index page can be found here. As you can see there were a bunch of links at the top pointing around in circles mostly but mostly pointing to nothing in particular. Here goes:
This is a list of ten of Greg Bear’s best-selling books at the time, all of which point to Amazon as affiliate links. It was an early attempt / test at using Amazon’s affiliate system. I think if I added it up I generated 10,000 click and 2 sales of Greg Bear’s books over the years :-).
This section was hot for a while - again it was an early test of basic internet programming and using Amazon’s web services and affiliate system. Almost all of the scripts were just barely adapted from Amazon’s own examples. The list of mystery authors was actually lifted from someone else’s web site who was doing practically the same thing.
This links to a list of other miscelaneous links - see what I mean about pointing in circles to nothing?! However it looks like there may have been an attempt at Amazon web service programming again.