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More PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom goodness

Here's a few items in the comments to the PhotoZoom post that I figured were worth highlighting for those lazy RSS readers (yes me included):

  • Matt Augstine from the PhotoZoom team has given some info about how the service works, and mentions that its using Silverlight Streaming.
  • John (of John & Bronwen of ViaWindowsLive) has written about how developers can recreate the Hard Rock Cafe experience, and includes the code for panning and zooming
  • Angus embeds a PhotoZoom album on his own blog and doesn't share the love. The three steps to PhotoZoom sharing heaven are:
    • View your zooming album on PhotoZoom, so that the url reads: photozoom.mslivelabs.com/Album.aspx?alias=XXX&album=X
    • View the page source and find the following: "silverlight.services.live.com"
    • Copy the entire iframe code, which will look something like this:

      <iframe src=http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/14030/<string>/iframe.html
                      scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="800" height="600"></iframe>

      You can customise the width and height as required, then just paste your code into your own website/blog etc. See below (you'll need Silverlight 2 beta 1 installed)

 

Comments

 

Khristopher said:

I really love this. I just made a post on my blog about it:

khristopher.com/.../photozoom-using-silverlight

March 9, 2008 2:03 PM
 

kcorax said:

I got a collage using Matt's tutorial you can see here kcorax.spaces.live.com/.../cns!40A42B28E3A94BAB!1526.entry Still there's work to be done in the navigation department.

Hint: the collage is currently hosted on a linux box.

March 9, 2008 2:04 PM
 

Chris said:

Keep the links coming guys, really interesting to see what people are doing with this stuff.

Here's a challenge, facebook application :)

March 9, 2008 5:52 PM
 

Matt Augustine said:

Good catch, Chris.  Hint: stay tuned for the facebook application...

Also, I have an item on my todo list to make it easier to add PhotoZoom albums to any web page.

March 9, 2008 10:28 PM
 

joeale said:

How can any body use photo zoom with windows live spaces and popfly.

March 10, 2008 1:00 AM
 

Maurits said:

Cool stuff! However, I tried to create an album via photozoom.mslivelabs.com but I can't get it to work:

1) It doesn't seem to pick up the Flickr RSS feed I triy to add

2) When importing a local photo, it says "Processing album zoom data" but nothing happens

Any suggestions?

March 11, 2008 2:15 PM
 

Chris said:

Maurits:

1) See comment #1 ;) Use the Atom feed for the time being.

2) The servers are pretty slow at the moment, so give it some time. I've heard it could be north of an hour, so might be best to come back the next morning :(

March 11, 2008 3:57 PM

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