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See the resulting Synth of Inauguration Check out how the CNN Inauguration Photosynth turned out (after my earlier promotion ). Uses Silverlight and the Photosynth viewer to see, but very cool how they do this. You can zoom in and see President Obama Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:20 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

A New Day At Windows Live

Wow! Windows Live is changing (Wave 3 we call it) and today shows some very visible signs of this. As announced , there are a set of features being exposed that make Live a true social network. It also is cooperating with other social networks like Twitter, Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:37 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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Summer News Items

High school football practice has started, the wife is buying school supplies, Microsoft employees are on vacation all over - which means, summer is almost gone. However, just because we're in the summer doldrums, Microsoft is not slowing down. In this Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:54 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Digital Lifestyle Video - with "Girl From Mars"

Saw this today on Mel Sampat's blog (which is a good read). But this video is cool, and the song is good. It's an entertaining music video showing a bunch of Microsoft technologies along the way. Professionally done, pretty believable looking story, and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:47 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Connected Consumer Experience in Automobiles

I've been published again with some peers in DPE, Christoph Schittko and Darryl Hogan . The article is in Issue 14 of The Architecture Journal , our magazine targeted to architects.  There are a couple of ways to get to the content. First, you could Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 12:46 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Automated Service Agents, and SmarterChild

John Mullinax has mentioned SmarterChild a couple of times so I had to do a little Internet exploration. A couple of years ago, Microsoft purchased a company that provided us with Automated Service Agents (ASA). It's very cool stuff, and the basis of Read More...
Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 4:31 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Tafiti added to Windows Live Quick Apps

Tafiti is a very interesting search application. Yes, it uses our Live Search API, as well as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight - but it's cool looking and works well. As I've said before, there are several features that are very handy. And now, you can get Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:51 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

This is a test of Live writer on Vista 64 bit

Installed from a hack, not sure of ramifications yet, but wanting to live on 64... Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:43 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments

Windows Live Translator. Hola?

Thought this was cool. Not a new concept by any means but cool. http://translator.live.com Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:03 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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Mobile Search sounds good, but I don't have a Data Plan

Have no fear, you can utilize Live Search for Mobile via SMS (Text Messaging). I'm not sure why this has not caught more attention, but I think it's a cool idea. I know a ton of people who have unlimited text message plans but don't have a data plan for Read More...
Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 7:27 PM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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One Cool FREE Windows Mobile Application

The latest version of our popular Live Search for Windows Mobile client is out! New features include: movie showtimes, restaurant ratings, and improved GPS navigation. I just pointed my phone browser to http://wls.live.com , clicked on the download link, Read More...
Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 11:37 AM by jonbox | 0 Comments
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