Live Labs

Zoom.it is a new service from the folks at Live Labs which lets you create shortened URLs for deep zoom images. To create a deep zoom image, you can just enter in the link to any standard image anywhere on the Web. Zoom.it will covert the image to the Deep Zoom format and then return a…

Laura took off this week for some much needed R&R but the boys of Ping took the reigns and found all these hot stories being talked about all over Microsoft:Microsoft Live Labs: PivotNews for early Win7 TestersThe boys talk FaceBook?!?!?Stepping up the search assaultoh...and I guess they felt…

Wednesday, the second day of Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference, was jam-packed with news about upcoming products, beta releases and more. If you didn’t tune into the live stream, here’s what you missed:Internet Explorer 9Arguably one of the bigger announcements from PDC, Steven Sinofsky…

I missed this update from earlier this month, but it looks like Microsoft Photosynth has added a couple of new features. The first new feature is really more of a change than anything else. It seems the previously experimental cross-platform Silverlight viewer is now being promoted to become the…

One of the best products so far to emerge from Microsoft’s Live Labs has got to be Photosynth, an amazing tool that lets you transform your photos into three-dimensional worlds you can then virtually explore. In the past, we’ve seen Photosynths integrated with Live Maps, turned into slideshows,…

Infinite Canvas is a side project from Microsoft Live Labs, but one which isn’t listed on the main Live Labs web site. The project, created by Ian Gilman, is a zoomable web comic creator/viewer, however it wasn’t made with Seadragon Ajax, but rather with JavaScript – even on the server side where…

Lately, people have been surprised by some of the things that the Microsoft Live Labs team has been putting out. Why is Microsoft making an iPhone app?, I’ve heard people say. Well, why not? The goal of Live Labs is to think outside the box, innovate, create, and push those creations live to the…

Seadragon é a plataforma por trás das minhas tecnologias preferidas – Deep Zoom do Silverlight, Photosynth e até Windows 7 e Surface. Essa plataforma permite que você visualize imagens gigantescas (gigapixels) sem o mínimo esforço do seu computador. Agora o pessoal do Live Labs, o braço de pesquisa…

There’s a new web clipping service now available from Microsoft Live Labs: Thumbtack. With this online notebook, you can collect links, media like photos and video, and text snippets, and store them in collections for later reference. The tool, ideal for those doing research on the web, also allows…

There’s a new feature now available on Live Maps: Photosynth! The Microsoft Live Labs technology, Photosynth, which launched publicly back in August, allows you take your photos and turn them into rich, 3-D experiences. Now, with the new Live Maps integration, you can explore the world in the very…