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Getting Paid To Do Your Hobby
Geek In Disguise —
... these folks are on the brink of redundancy with the ubiquitous access we have to information via the Internet. I take a different view though and think these are just the types of experts we need in the era of information overload. They’ve spent years sorting, indexing and cataloguing stuff. I had a great time presenting to them and sharing this view. I also expressed my view that they need to think about the experience they deliver with information – and showed things like the Hard Rock Memorabilia site and ...
‘Hard Rock Memorabilia’ designed using Silverlight 2 and Microsoft Deep Zoom
D' Technology Weblog —
The Hard Rock Memorabilia website has been designed using the capability of “Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom”. This impressive site, designed by the awesome folks at Vertigo, showcases tons of music memorabilia of historic value such as The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour Bus.
They have enabled a super cool feature on the Hard Rock Memorabilia website where you can zoom in to a specific object in the collection and choose to share it by ...
Explore Microsoft Deep Zoom Composer
SolSie.com —
... , which is used at the Hard Rock Memorabilia site. Deep Zoom Composer is a tool which lets you design your own deep zoom creations which can then be uploaded to the Microsoft Live Labs ...
Four Lads That Shook The World
Geek In Disguise —
Back in my hometown of Liverpool there is a small plaque that I love. Every time I pass it a huge smile crosses my face. It has 4 mopheaded boys with the epitaph “Four Lads That Shook The World”. Unsurprisingly, it’s The Beatles and it sits at the top of Matthew Street not far from The Cavern. I love it as it stands as a reminder that from humble beginnings amazing talent can rise. They turned raw talent in to a phenomenon. ...
Microsoft’s Magic Pixie Dust
Geek In Disguise —
... , and DeepZoom. Stuff that just makes people go “wow”. These products are the magic pixie dust of the kind that puts a shine on everything else we do. ...
Microsoft releases its first iPhone app
The Microsoft Blog —
... on, including an aerial map of the world and a set of documents from the Library of Congress. Most impressive, though, I thought, was a set called "Asia Vacation." Zooming in on a photo of a sculpture, you can get incredibly close in. For instance, from afar on one photo you would never guess there were tiny carvings of flowers on a skirt. Microsoft's Silverlight media player already uses the Seadragon deep zoom technology. For instance, visitors to the Hard Rock Cafe's memorabilia site , which uses Silverlight, can zoom in on any piece of memorabilia in the collection. From ...
Microsoft joins iPhone party with Seadragon App
T3.com All —
... scroll, etc work just fine. Because you can zoom right in, you can look at far larger, more detailed images than you would normally consider on a tiny handheld screen. You can use the Seadragon app to browse the available collections, including some from the Library of Congress, artwork and world maps. You can also view content from Microsoft s Photosynth, Deep Zoom content and Flickr feeds. If you want to see an example of technology in action, it s well worth checking out the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia page . And if you re wondering why WinMo didn t get a look in, well ...
SFMOMA's ArtScope Offers New Way To Browse Museum Collections
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Browsing the Hard Rock Memorabilia Collection -- ArtScope finds a kindred spirit in the Hard Rock Cafe's Memorabilia site, which has a similar visual interface, and, in some ways, a better one for browsing through the company's collection of popular music artifacts. The controls and navigation are more along the lines of what I'd like to see brought to ArtScope. The Hard Rock Memorabilia tool has grab-and-drag navigation like SFMOMA's, but with an Apple-like design touch. The drag has a little inertia to it, which gives the navigation a natural and physical feel. That sense ...
Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft’s Silverlight 3
TechCrunch —
... 3. Immersive Experiences: Silverlight 3 comes with a few innovative capabilities for developers to harness, including th ability to have a deep zoom into images and an experience, almost making users feel like they are on a virtual ride. I demoed the deep zoom capability that’s currently being used on the Hard Rock Cafe’s site to portray music memorabilia in it’s different restaurants. Silverlight 3 also has a more powerful 3-D technology. ...
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