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Photosynth – Arch of Titus, Rome

August 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

 
Just before I left for Rome, Microsoft Live Labs officially launched the Photosynth tool which allows you to arrange and share your photographs in a completely unique way and explore those photos as if you were looking at the detail of the real world.
It is kind of hard to explain – so explore my first synth [...]

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Tags: internet · microsoft · photos · travel

Twitter ends SMS updates – not the smartest move?

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

With an email – and this blog post – Twitter ended the outbound delivery of SMS updates, inbound updates are still OK, but people are a bit peeved at the change.
I’m not a huge SMS receiver of messages, but I do update via SMS and I can’t help thinking that it might have been a [...]

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Tags: internet · other sites

Live Search goes to Beijing

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:

Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for [...]

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Tags: internet · microsoft · other sites

New Facebook Design

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Logged on to Facebook this morning – and found I had a new design for the Homepage

Everything looks a lot more spaced out – more white space – and the news feed feels much more prominent on the left had side, the sidebar is now on the right and again feels a lot less [...]

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Mesh now open to Windows Mobile – nearly

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Live Mesh is now open to Windows Mobile – sort of (oh, and it’s taking new beta users)

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Tags: internet · microsoft

Extraordinary Virtual Earth Implementation

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Just spotted this over on Steve Clayton’s blog, a great implmentation of the Virtual Earth maps, using Deep Earth and Silverlight. The zooming capabilities of this map are fantastic, and the level of detail (take a look at the center of London for instance) is astonishing. I zoomed in to take a look at [...]

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Tiny Twitter – for your Smartphone…

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Do you use SMS to send messages to Twitter on the move? If so, you should probably check out TinyTwitter, which as the name suggests is a Twitter client with a tiny footprint that runs on Windows Mobile devices.
Big hat-tip to Jason Langridge for pointing this one out.
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Tags: internet