This new Bing maps feature takes tagged photos from Flickr, and relates them to our Streetside imagery to show images matched to their original context. See if you're really going to get a good sunset at that B&B youre looking to book, or check out the crowds on a Saturday morning at Pike Place Market in Seattle.

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft, building augmented reality into searchable maps. He's also the co-creator of Photosynth, software that assembles static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.

RT @frankleng: New Bing interface based on Silverlight is fancy looking, but very slow. http://bing.com/maps/explore/ #bing #silverlight