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(Message started by: amichail on Dec 2^nd, 2006, 8:28pm)

Title: best microsoft product ever
Post by amichail on Dec 2^nd, 2006, 8:28pm

Amazing stuff:

http://targetyournews.com/ajax/TargetYourNews.html#cmd%3DMore%26link_id%3D656691

Title: Re: best microsoft product ever
Post by towr on Dec 3^rd, 2006, 8:13am

There really should be a "crap site" warning for sites that only work in IE..
And another thing that keeps bugging me about "targetyournews" is that I never know where to click to get where it's supposed to link to untill the second or third try. Very non-intuitive..

Title: Re: best microsoft product ever
Post by amichail on Dec 3^rd, 2006, 10:22am

You can still watch the videos in other browsers:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html

It's worth using IE just to play with it. The idea and implementation are really compelling.

Title: Re: best microsoft product ever
Post by amichail on Dec 3^rd, 2006, 10:38am

As for Target Your News, the ajax version is more intuitive.

In any case, I will probably build a new service soon that will provide something like discussion forums with personalization. It would probably combine targeting, social networks, and dominator trees are mentioned in an earlier post.

One goal that I have is to unite various web concepts such as discussion forums, blogs, personalization, social networks, social news, advertising, etc. I suspect that any such unification -- although compelling -- will be a bit confusing at first.

Title: Re: best microsoft product ever
Post by amichail on Dec 28^th, 2006, 5:44pm

You can find a link to the java version (which works with firefox) along with some possible extensions of this idea here:

http://csandbeyond.blogspot.com/2006/12/exploring-photo-collections-in-3d.html

Title: Re: best microsoft product ever
Post by Icarus on Dec 29^th, 2006, 7:06am

Interesting. It's a bit uncertain what you are going to get, though. I would try to get close-ups of certain areas, and instead got really weird angles that barely even showed what I was looking for, or else got pictures of people blocking what I was after (I'm sure these people were of great importance to the photographer, but they have no particular interest to me).

It has potential, but to me it seems somewhat harder to navigate than simply looking at a bunch of thumbnails.