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New Photosynth Features and a Stone Circle

I spent this past weekend in Donegal, where my friends and I came across a really neat stone circle outside of Raphoe.  It was crying out to be Photosynthed.  I stood in the centre of the circle, taking a lot of photos.  After uploading Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:25 PM by martharotter | 0 Comments

I Never Thought I’d Be Blogging About Playboy

But cool technology is worth writing about, so here we go.  If you were watching the MIX09 Live Keynote yesterday ( http://live.visitmix.com/ ), you saw a couple of awesome applications which really take rich, Internet applications to a new level.  Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:23 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

New Irish Silverlight Showcase App - Zignals

Have you heard of Zignals yet? If you have, I’m not surprised given the great visibility and publicity they’ve received for their unique, innovative application and beautiful set of controls, all done in Silverlight.  They also do a great job informing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:08 PM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Photosynth is Live – Create 3D Experiences

What an exciting week this has been!  Photosynth has been fully released by Microsoft Live Labs this morning. If you’re not familiar with Photosynth, it is a cool piece of technology which takes a collection of photographs and uses them to build Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:17 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

New Silverlight Top Sites

A lot of live websites have moved to Silverlight 2 beta 2, and there are some great new sites that have shown up over the last few weeks since the new version has been released. Ryanair Destinations: I love Ryanair for many reasons, but mostly because Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 8:54 AM by martharotter | 1 Comments

WorldWide Telescope Public Beta

Did you see the Ted video that Clare linked to a few weeks back of Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope?  If you didn’t, you should go check it out – it’s seriously impressive. The WWT has been only available internally up until today, and now Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:09 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

New Shiny Silverlight 2 Healthcare Demo

Via Laurent I came across this excellent site showing off a cool new application called the “Patient Journey Demonstrator.”  It’s a healthcare application with end-to-end scenarios for patient data, medical professional interaction, and medical administration. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:00 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Introduction to DeepZoom via PhotoZoom

One of the things I'm going to be talking about at my session at the IMTC, or Irish Microsoft Technology Conference 2008 on Friday is using Silverlight with DeepZoom.  DeepZoom is a technology that came out of the Microsoft Live Labs which allows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:35 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Another cool Silverlight site: The Podium '08

I came across this website today and thought it was great. It's called The Podium '08, and it uses Live Search and Silverlight to display a variety of information on U.S. presidential candidates for 2008. On the right side is a list of top issues, clicking Read More...
Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 8:10 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments
 
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