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Our Live Labs team has launched Seadragon.com which allows you to share images of pretty much any size on the web as a zoomable photo. The site sits on top of Windows Azure which I expect to be a growing trend with our websites and projects as internal team start to reap the rewards of early access to our cloud platform. It should make for some interesting announcements at PDC09 in November as more come out of the woodwork.

With Seadragon.com you end up with a URL that can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, or through email or IM. Or embed it directly on your blog, eBay listing or virtually any site…if sites like eBay and Amazon were to adopt this it’d have a great impact for certain purchases where you need to see a lot of detail. Imagine buying a car on eBay and being able to see if the wheels are scuffed, or buying a suite from PaulSmith.co.uk and seeing the detail of the stitching.

here’s a quick effort from me