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Windows Live Local Offers a Unique View of Where the Stars Hang Out

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:

  • Jeff Bridges — Santa Barbara, Calif.
  • Stacy Keibler — Washington, D.C., and Baltimore
  • Anna Kournikova — Miami
  • Eva Longoria — San Antonio
  • Alex Rodriguez — New York
  • Matt Leinart — Los Angeles
  • Brittany Murphy — Edison, N.J.
  • Brad Paisley — Nashville, Tenn.

The CelebFavorites.com Web site will run from May 5 to June 30. [Microsoft PressPass]

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