I just got a new Flip Video camera and needed to play with it.
Our photo guy (JP Wollersheim) always hooks me up with goodies to play with, and a few months he dropped off a Samsung photo frame which I have hooked up to my photos on Windows Live Spaces.
I can take some photos using my eye.fi and they up up to Spaces and then over Wi-fi (via a router and direct tap in my office) the photos get displayed.
The photo frame is useful when I’m on the road, I can take photos on my cellphone or camera and they go up to Spaces and get pointed down the hall so people can see what I’m upto.
A while ago I saved a PowerPoint deck as images and pushed them into Windows Live Spaces (kinda like DIY SlideShare) – anyway it looks awesome – super cheap way to display presentations – save them to the cloud and point a photo frame at them.
The video I shot is below (no that music isn’t overlayed, that was what was on in my office from Last.fm) – I just grabbed the AVI from the Flip Video device and uploaded to Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
Recently I’ve been more and more amazed by the ecosystem being built around Twitter.
Three things have made an impact:
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No wonder this apparently happened (note: could just be a rumor).
Check out the video and the site www.RoboChamps.com
They use Windows Live ID and Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
Tonight we introduced Live Mesh go and see www.mesh.com – follow it on TweetScan. I’m sitting in the ship room right now and this is really exciting.
Read the blog | Welcome to Live Mesh | Live Mesh as a Platform | What is a platform experience (and why do I care?) | Videos
Platform Experience Quick Tour | Quick tour for developers | Overview of Live Mesh Architecture | Overview of Platform Experience
Below are links to all the views from lots of bloggers & press (follow on Technorati or Techmeme)
I just landed in Orlando and I’m flying out Tuesday morning – if you want to meet up and talk about Windows Live services email me (alogan atREMOVETHIS microsoft.com)
Mark Brown (the alogan of Virtual Earth) has started blogging. He’s a product manager so he knows everything about everything (or can find it out).
BLOG: http://blogs.msdn.com/markbrown/ FEED: http://blogs.msdn.com/markbrown/rss.aspx
The good : One thing I really like about his blog is he has bootstrapped it with 3 blog posts, way cool – most people launch a new blog with 1 post and don’t update it for ages. There is 1 post per day – it would be awesome to keep this up!!!
The bad: No bling (see what I mean here) until he gets his own bling perhaps he can track me:
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The Messenger team have released a codeplex project which has 3 main samples:
This is way cool stuff, you can really easily now build a Silverlight wrapper for Windows Live Messenger – you can own the entire experience.
I think I could rebuild this great What Happens in Vegas trailer site super easily now :)
Below is a random example I like to use when I talk about community, and why web sites need to built community.
When I travel (which I do a lot), if I’m booking my own travel, I’ll either use Yahoo! FareChase or Kayak. In my opinion, neither web site is better, neither web site is sure to get my repeat business, it is a coin toss between FareChase and Kayak – except FareChase has more contextual name.
But when ever I travel, there is a web site which always gets my attention… TripIt (but see below why Dopplr has my heart and mind).
The reason TripIt gets my attention is not only the awesome technical features (i.e. parsing free text reservation emails into structured data), it is the community which pulls me back in. I know my co-workers use TripIt to manage their trips, so it tells me if they are going to the same conference, it allows me to share my travel information – in my experience FareChase or Kayak don’t allow me to do this.
You may ask, “TripIt is like Dopplr – why does TripIt get your attention?”
Main reason – Functionality - I can’t just forward my travel plans in email to Dopplr but TripIt has some killer technology which does parsing. Secondary reason – TripIt was a first mover (at least it was the only site I knew of) and the name TripIt makes more sense than Dopplr.
Main reason – Functionality - I can’t just forward my travel plans in email to Dopplr but TripIt has some killer technology which does parsing.
Secondary reason – TripIt was a first mover (at least it was the only site I knew of) and the name TripIt makes more sense than Dopplr.
Dopplr now uses the Windows Live Contacts API
What does TripIt do?
Asks for username/pwd to invite my friends to TripIt
i’m not talking about Project Runway, I’m talking about a Panoramic Photo stitch off.
Over on LifeHacker they are loving some free panoramic photo stitching software – did you know Windows Live Photo Gallery does that plus more?
Check out what Brandon Leblanc has stitched or my collection
Windows Live Photo Gallery also has:
So the question is – should we have a stitch off?
I don’t know which product is the best, but I do know our stitching technology available in Windows Live Photo Gallery came from Microsoft Research.
There are some more SLS features which just got released – read the announcement here.
The summary is:
read the announcement here