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Microsoft’s Shiny New Toy [MIT Technology Review]

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February 24, 2008

Microsoft’s Shiny New Toy [MIT Technology Review]

[MIT Technology Review; March/April, 2008]

Microsoft’s Shiny New Toy
Photosynth is dazzling, but what is it for?

At last March’s Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in Monterey, CA, a summit that’s been described as “Davos for the digerati,” the calm-voiced software architect from Microsoft began his demonstration abruptly, navigating rapidly across a sea of images displayed on a large screen. Using Seadragon, a technology that enables smooth, speedy exploration of large…

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