Olympics

Over on the Photosynth blog, they’ve rounded up the top contributions from users who submitted Photosynth’d collections from the recent Winter Olympics. Over the past several weeks, there have been over 40 different synths from the games added to the online gallery, including contributions from the…

On NBCOlympics.com, the official site for Winter Games coverage, there’s a Twitter application called the “Olympic Twitter Tracker.” I recently discovered this thanks to a tweet from Marshall Kirkpatrick, who said it was “pretty cool.” If he thinks so, then I definitely had to check it out.…

Thanks to Bing’s popular “Instant Answer” feature, web searchers can quickly find out Olympic-related info like who won what event, what time figure skating is on, when a particular athlete is competing and more. Now it appears that the Bing Team has been tracking these Olympic search trends to…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC is now available for everyone to download Interesting because: The RC Editor performance is much improved over Beta 2 Charles Torre - Charles interviews Jason Zander on…

The Microsoft Canada Development Centre recently ran a contest that challenged developers to create Bing Map applications for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics, taking place in Vancouver, Canada. The resulting apps are designed for use by Vancouver citizens and visitors during the Olympics and use…

Microsoft is again partnering with NBC Universal to deliver live Olympics coverage. On the NBCOlympics.com website, over 400 hours of live competition will be made available for all 15 of the Winter Olympics sports. In addition, you’ll have access to 1000 hours of full-event replays, recaps,…

The hottest stories on Microsoft campus this week include:The iPad is hereWindows on Big Bang TheoryBallmer signs a MacGates Dances...SunDances...4 years in MS PaintOlympics & Office Full Multi-Point Mouse demo

Live Smooth StreamingLots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one. First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth Streaming. The key advantages of Smooth…

People kept asking me about this on my just completed tour of Asia, so here’s a blog post that’s got the final numbers for the NBCOlympics.com video delivery with Silverlight. The data is from the Silverlight 2 Customer Evidence and Quote Sheet. During the 17 days of the games, the site had 51.9…

The Popfly team has put together a handful of Olympic-themed games in honor of the Summer Games occurring now in Beijing. There are ten games in all included archery, boxing, diving, gymnastics, long jump, soccer, synchronized swimming, track & field, weightlifting, and even torch lighting!…