Wave 3: Windows Live Photo Gallery – New Features

Along with the Windows Live Wave 3 beta download package – comes the new Windows Live Photo Gallery that we’ve been talking about over and over again. First things first, here’s what you get ... Read more »

Photosynth Update, September 8

  Photosynth just got its second update: Improved upload success rate. This update should significantly reduce the number of synths failing with error code “0xA000000B”. The problem happens when a file is currupted on ... Read more »

Photosynth: First Update

Photosynth, launched 8 days ago, got its first update: Some improvement on the upload problems. If you’ve been upload errors or the dreaded "stuck in publishing" problem, you should know that we’ve been working ... Read more »

Photosynth: User Review

As Kip mentioned in his post about the Photosynth release, I’ve been playing about with Photosynth. I was that is, ’til it decided it won’t publish any more of my Synths. I made two, ... Read more »

PhotoSynth released as a Worldwide “Software + Services” Download, to become part of MSN

Photosynth, which was initially released as a Microsoft Live Labs Technology Preview, is being released as a new free service, to become part of MSN.  The new product, available at www.photosynth.net, combines a 20gb ... Read more »

PhotoSynth moves out of Live Labs to Virtual Earth (!)

Chris Pendleton is reporting today that the Photosynth team is moving into the Virtual Earth product group. Ever since the launch of Photosynth there’s been much discussion about the natural synergy of it and ... Read more »

Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom – Get ready to build your own photozooming collections

Steve Clayton just posted about part of the Silverlight 2 Mix08 demo, specifically a feature called Deep Zoom which is implemented over at http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/. Deep Zoom allows users to smoothly and seamlessly zoom in and ... Read more »

Microsoft launches WorldWide Telescope into private alpha

It made Scoble cry, and soon it can make you cry too. The website for the latest Microsoft Research project, WorldWide Telescope, is now up at http://wwtelescope.com/. Here’s how Robert describes it: “So, back to ... Read more »

Earth? No, the Sky is the limit?!

We can already look at Earth with Virtual Earth, but what about the Sky? Microsoft doesn’t have anything for that yet. Yes, that’s right, YET! This might change on February 27th at the TED ... Read more »

Photosynth and Photo Gallery panoramic stitching explained

Learning something new is great, which is why I thought Steve Clayton’s post today deserved a mention. In it Steve quotes a member of the Microsoft Research team, who explains how the panoramic stitching ... Read more »