Microsoft’s online mapping service provides the inside scoop on where top celebrities spend time in the cities they call home.

Celebrity watchers rejoice! Today, Microsoft Corp.’s online local search and mapping service, Windows Live™ Local, launched CelebFavorites, a Web site that pinpoints the favorite haunts of eight of the world’s top athletes and entertainers, including Eva Longoria, Anna Kournikova, Jeff Bridges and Alex Rodriguez. Each celebrity has used the site to highlight his or her favorite restaurants, hotels, clubs, shops, museums or places to hang out.

CelebFavorites.com enables people to see exactly where each celebrity hangout is on the Windows Live Local map, get directions to and from each location, click through to the Web site of each business or point of interest, and even mark their own favorite places with “pushpins” and e-mail them to friends and family.

These are the celebrities participating and their respective cities:

The CelebFavorites.com Web site will run from May 5 to June 30.

“Windows Live Local combines local search, online maps, directions and local business listings into a seamless, all-in-one experience for people,” said Martin Taylor, corporate vice president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft. “By working with these celebrities to showcase the places they love to go, we hope to show how fun and easy it is to use the service, while helping people discover great new places they can call their own.” Continue at source

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