Interesting to see the Live Labs guys still using the name Seadragon which is knows as DeepZoom when in Silverlight. Anyway, Gary pointed me to his pos “Software on a Cloud” today which talks about yesterday’s announcement that you can now embed that DeepZoom goodness direct in to a web page – Seadragon Ajax. What does that mean? Well think about it this way…

I did a post a while back about the commercial potential of DeepZoom using Paul Smith as an example customers. That was quickly hacked together by me and if you click the link above you can see the original where I suggest this technology could revolutionise the online buying experience, especially for stuff like clothes, shoes and such where you want to see the detail.

With Seadragon AJAX, it’s now a 2 minute job for me to create the experience below

That my friends is magical software. Magic I tell you.

Wouldn’t you love it if every online store had this? I know I would