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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

Search Engines and Privacy

The recent AOL scandal had one and only one learning lesson for any software company. Think 10x, 100x, 1000x about customer privacy. There is a large amount of discussions, opinions, passion on the blogosphere, but I don't think that anyone disagrees Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:49 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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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

Walking the long road ahead

Recently there was a lot of noise in the media about a Microsoft official (Neil Holloway - President of Microsoft EU) " saying " that we will be twice as good as Google in six months. Then I was pleasantly surprised that Neil soon corrected this misquote. Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 04, 2006 2:45 AM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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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

Did you know that MySpace.com runs ASP.NET 2.0 on x64?

I found this quote interesting: The Internet Information Services 6.0 Web server featured in the OS has been enhanced with 64-bit support. This provides access to more memory and scalability for applications, Goldfarb said. "In high-performance scenarios, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:21 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

digg.com - the new Slashdot?

I just discovered digg.com a few days ago, and I am hooked. So far, it seems surprisingly good. IMHO, it is almost as good and even surpasses Slashdot in many aspects: traffic (although alexa.com might be misleading here), volume of posts, fresh news, Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:40 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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