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Zoom.it: Shortened URLs for Deep Zoom Pics
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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… -
Microsoft Research Shows off Street Slide View
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No, not Street “Side” view, Street “Slide” view. Engadget (via MIT’s Technology Review) uncovered a cool Microsoft Research project called “Street Slide” view. The project attempts to create a new interface for viewing the street-level photos used in online applications like Bing Maps Streetside… -
MSNBC Launches New Photoblog
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MSNBC has just launched a new and improved photoblog (the one called “Photo Blog,” actually). The site is run by Robert Hood, who has been on MSNBC’s multimedia team since 1996 in addition to freelancing for The New York Times and the LA Times. His team is responsible for all the photography and… -
ICE Now Works with Photosynth
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The guys over on LiveSide just spotted an update to ICE, the “Image Composite Editor” created by Microsoft Research. If you’ve never heard of this tool before, it’s pretty impressive. Basically, it’s the technology that’s used “under the hood” in Windows Live Photo Gallery to stitch photos together… -
Olympic Photosynths
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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… -
Microsoft Research Works on "Mental Tagging" of Images
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One of the most tedious things to do when uploading a collection of photos to the web is tag them. Although doing so ensures they can be easily found later either by yourself or the online community at large, the process is often time-consuming and cumbersome. A number of technologies have been… -
Berlin Wall in Silverlight
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In case you missed it last month, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To memorialize this historic event, a digital project has been created whose goal is to become the largest photo mosaic in the world. Called the BerlinMOSAIC, the project is a virtual art… -
Flickr Drive Integrates Flickr into Windows Explorer
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The Life Rocks blog recently uncovered a Windows Explorer extension that integrates Flickr right into Explorer. Called Flickr Drive, the program creates a drive icon representing the popular photo-sharing website under “Computer” in Windows Vista or Windows 7. Once installed, you must first… -
Turn MS Paint Sketches into Actual Photos
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A research team made up of members from several Chinese universities has created a new system which transforms sketches into photographs. That means that any simple drawing you create in basic software like MS Paint can instantly be turned into a full-color photograph. To use the system, all you… -
Photosynth's New Features: Highlights and Cross-Platform Viewer
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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…