Microsoft Live Labs projects lives on – Seadragon Ajax and Silverlight PivotViewer

Microsoft Live Labs projects lives on – Seadragon Ajax and Silverlight PivotViewer

While we know that Microsoft Live Labs was shuttered almost a month ago – and the team was “transitioned” into Bing, it appears that not all the incubation projects went under Bing’s control (and ... Read more »
New from Live Labs: Zoom.it (bonus: new PivotViewer app)

New from Live Labs: Zoom.it (bonus: new PivotViewer app)

Thanks to Steve Clayton for keeping us up on the latest Live Labs news (you can follow Live Labs on Twitter – hey they’re hiring!), as they release a new project –Zoom.it.  Zoom.it is ... Read more »
PivotViewer available for download!

PivotViewer available for download!

We first saw Pivot, the Live Labs project that presents visual information in fun new ways, last November at PDC, and then this year at Tech-Ed, Live Labs announced that a new “PivotViewer” Silverlight ... Read more »
News from all over: Bing on iPhone, Pivot, more

News from all over: Bing on iPhone, Pivot, more

Lots of conferences underway at the moment, with tidbits of news coming from all over the map.  Here’s a quick round-up: WWDC The Steve Jobs Show opened things up this morning in San Francisco, ... Read more »
What to expect (and what not to) from Mix

What to expect (and what not to) from Mix

Mix 10 starts on Monday morning (at 9am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), as Daylight Savings Time starts in the US on Sunday March 14), and we’ll be there to liveblog the event (we’ll have ... Read more »
Gary Flake’s TED talk on Pivot now available

Gary Flake’s TED talk on Pivot now available

A few weeks ago Microsoft made quite a splash at TED, with talks by Blaise Aguera y Arcas on some amazing stuff to come for Bing Maps, Bill Gates on energy, and Dr. Gary ... Read more »
More from TED: Dr. Gary Flake presents Pivot, now available for download

More from TED: Dr. Gary Flake presents Pivot, now available for download

More news from the TED conference, this time it’s Dr. Gary Flake presenting Pivot, a Live Labs project that just “wouldn’t have been possible five years ago”: Pivot is an experimental technology that allows ... Read more »
A new home for our Pivot (and more codes!)

A new home for our Pivot (and more codes!)

Just a little housekeeping on our ongoing Live Labs Pivot project, the MS Org Pivot, which we wrote about earlier.  We originally posted our Pivot attempt on an unused personal domain, but we’ve moved ... Read more »
Creating the Microsoft Executive Pivot (we play, and you can too)

Creating the Microsoft Executive Pivot (we play, and you can too)

We’ve been giving away Live Labs Pivot codes (and yes, we have more to share later on in this post), but after returning from PDC and learning a bit about the new “experiment” from ... Read more »
New from Live Labs: Pivot

New from Live Labs: Pivot

I got called a namedropper on Twitter today for my earlier Day 1 post, but really we think of our readers as being the reason we’re here, and it’s because of you that we’re ... Read more »