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Yet another 3D photo wonder is now available - Microsoft Photosynth is available for preview

Try it here: http://labs.live.com/photosynth . It is an interesting approach of building a 3D world from a bunch of 2D photos taken anywhere. Coincidentally, Microsoft just released 3D maps in Windows Live Local, which also succeed to build 3D models Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:23 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

New live.com launched! (with screenshots on Vista)

Link: www.live.com It looks beautifully, isn't it? [Screenshot] Read More...
Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 4:15 PM by AdiOltean | 7 Comments
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Digg surpasses Slashdot?

Looking at Alexa , we can definitely see a trend: Alexa might be contested , however. And, speaking of trends, Google Trends tells us a similar thing, this time with respect to Google search volume : slashdot digg Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:15 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

New www.live.com launched!

Check it out: www.live.com Personally, I like the smart scroll feature. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 11:29 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Favorites - this time, for real!

Finally! I just noticed a new service in the http://live.com family: Live Favorites ( http://favorites.live.com/ ) You can import your existing IE favorites, organize them with drag-and-drop via an AJAX interface, etc. Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:58 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

The OpenSearch 1.1 specification

I just installed a recent Vista build on my dev box, and I noticed a new set of options to add a custom search engine in IE 7. Which got me digging . For your browsing pleasure, here are some links: - This page describes the current list of providers, Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 12:42 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

My top 10 tech predictions for 2006

Let's see how this game will play out: 1) Amazon will come up with more and more interesting stuff. I expect to be surprised. 2) Someone, probably Yahoo, will buy digg and memeorandum. These sites are hot. 3) In 2004, Google captured everyone's interest Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:32 AM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

How Hotmail works? - an interview with Phil Smoot

ACM Queue published an interesting interview with Phil Smoot. Phil is the person in charge of managing the development teams at Hotmail. Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:31 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Windows Local Live is out in the wild!

Here it is: http://local.live.com Check out some cool bird's eye images: - Space Needle - Microsoft campus . [ Update - Dec 8, 11 PM ] It turns out that the service is not exposed to the public yet. Funny enough, it works fine from my dev box, but not Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:43 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Will the giants fade away?

Something interesting happened in the last few years. Something that I haven't explicity realized until I read Ross Levinsohn's statement . (Maybe you already know - Ross Levinsohn is the president of Fox Interactive Media, a large company who owns the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:54 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Search Technology Center - opened by Microsoft in China

I am watching with a lot of interest the evolution of search technologies in China - everyone knows about baidu.com (which seems to be the fifth most visited site on the internet, according to Alexa , just behind MSN, Yahoo and Google). But one interesting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:25 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

This time, a real blog about Google

I am reading an excellent blog written by a few ex-Googlers. I especially like Doug Edwards's posts, which seems to be a funny guy. The blog describes how Google felt like, from the inside, in the early days, and how the atmosphere evolved over time. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:24 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Want free email? Bring your own domain

Forget the battle between Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail. Just use your own domain and go to http://domains.live.com to get free email services, plus antivirus/antispam protection! And if you don't have yet a domain, just create one. The prices are pretty low Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 9:39 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Home page adventures - this time the new, shiny MSDN search beta

I could write a little history on the (frequent) changes of my home page during the last twelve months. Why not? So far I was on: 1) google.com for a while - until a year ago if I remember correctly. At that time, this was the only search engine page Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:03 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Yahoo launches blogs, news search engine

Various Yahoo rumors are coming furiously from several directions. First, a new blog search engine, as noted by Steve Rubel, at the (still non-existent) blog.search.yahoo.com . Apparently, there was a Yahoo blog search engine available for some time (but Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 10:02 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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