Comments on: Microsoft Celebrates Photosynth Server Failure, Surprised People Like It

By: Tug

Tug — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:30:17 +0000

Your joking right?

By: Microsoft Dips Its Toe Into The iPhone With Seadragon Mobile | Fidicaro.net

Microsoft Dips Its Toe Into The iPhone With Seadragon Mobile | Fidicaro.net — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:03:25 +0000

[...] can browse a few photosets included in the application or add your own content from Photosynth or any RSS [...]

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Microsoft Dips Its Toe Into The iPhone With Seadragon — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:53:56 +0000

[...] can browse a few photosets included in the application or add your own content from Photosynth or any RSS [...]

By: Royal Pingdom » The major Internet outages so far in 2008

Royal Pingdom » The major Internet outages so far in 2008 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:02:18 +0000

[...] downtime as a badge of honor and promised to quickly add more horsepower, but as Michael Arrington pointed out over at TechCrunch: “We see similar optimistic responses to server failure all the time from startups. Except [...]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:09:33 +0000

@ChiragPinjar – those aren’t actually unrefreshed pixels – they are the “point cloud” representing the 3-d points that photosynth has reconstructed from the photographs. You can cycle through the three views: “photos+pointcloud”, “pointcloud-only”, and “photos-only” by pressing the ‘P’ button.

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:57:29 +0000

First of all, Linux users now comprise nearly 2% of desktop users. Waste of time? Only if you consider 20+ million people insignificant (that’s roughly the population of Australia).

It’s understandable that Microsoft isn’t building a Linux version, but it has nothing to do with how many non-Windows users there are. (If they really cared, they would start paying attention to the TWENTY PERCENT of Internet users that browse the web with Firefox.)

By: lolz

lolz — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:28:03 +0000

jebus christ

techcrunch is getting from bad to worse

By: פוטוסינת’ עלה לאוויר ! | טל גלילי

פוטוסינת’ עלה לאוויר ! | טל גלילי — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:29:08 +0000

[...] שהידיעה פורסמה, האתר כבר הספיק לקרוס, אבל בזמן שבדקתי אותו היום – הוא חזר [...]

By: Jon Wu

Jon Wu — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:17:40 +0000

No Mac version?

It says: “We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.”

Fuk this. This is pathetic.

By: Fowl

Fowl — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:41:03 +0000

Microsoft can’t be treated as one company – Microsoft Research practically does everything themselves.

By: for George

for George — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:20:10 +0000

sorry dude… did you know Gmail was freaking down for few hours… atleast Hotmail did not have any such Email service down issues…

go and get life (or beer)

By: for George

for George — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:18:18 +0000

sorry dude… did you know Gmail was freaking down for few hours… atleast Hotmail did not have any such Email service down issues…

go and get life (or beer)

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:20:43 +0000

[...] two year wait for Photosynth ended yesterday as Microsoft finally opened the doors to the public. (http://www.tech...urprised-people... [...]

By: links for 2008-08-22 « 個人的な雑記

links for 2008-08-22 « 個人的な雑記 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:08:44 +0000

[...] Microsoft Celebrates Photosynth Server Failure, Surprised People Like It (tags: photosynth 3d microsoft) [...]

By: jansn » Blog Archive » Start-ups vs. The Titans: Hyping

jansn » Blog Archive » Start-ups vs. The Titans: Hyping — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:28:53 +0000

[...] Apple. And the news wasn’t good. Microsoft’s launched the long awaited Photosynth but couldn’t take the loads of traffic to their servers. Apple already launched MobileMe a few weeks ago, but [...]

By: copy

copy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:52:03 +0000

just striaght out of books from yahoo?
“Our pipes are clogged, we have called in the plumbers” – I liked this one better

By: siiick

siiick — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:45:11 +0000

Excellent Marketing on Microsoft’s part!

By: Greg James

Greg James — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:50:03 +0000

I am a big fan of Techcrunch, which from my experience provides the best source of information on Internet businesses. I have learned tremendously from reading Techcrunch’s thoughtful, well researched articles about new technologies and companies. But more and more, Techcrunch’s articles sound like they are written by insecure, cynical high school students who are desperate to prove how cool they are (Apple=cool; Microsoft=lame). Perhaps I am just getting too old, but I can’t understand the mindset of people who base their self worth on their mobile phone or operating system, nor am I interested in reading technology news that is driven by this agenda. Photosynth appears to be innovative, exciting, free technology that has many potential applications. I would have liked to have read a Techcrunch article that treated it as such (I ended up reading about Photosyth on other blogs, e.g. David Pogue’s discussion in the New York Times). I suspect that if Techcrunch’s editorial bias continues, then many readers will begin to turn elsewhere.

By: Pandrogas

Pandrogas — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:32:26 +0000

Given the way that Microsoft works internally, I imagine they really didn’t expect that much of a server load on launch day. Instead of denoting them as failing optimisitcally, consider that each team at Microsoft essentially works like a startup and the really nice part is how fast they got the upgrades they needed.

I would rather have a group of enthusiastic developers doing all they can to make sure everything gets working again than a suit and tie like group who apologizes profusely and rectifies the situation in a week.

By: Salik Syed

Salik Syed — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:13:19 +0000

please refrain from ridiculing people over small points. In essence my point was that the complexity of reconstructing a 3d scene from a huge set of photographs is more complicated than storing an index. Yes i realize that creating a large scale search engine has many engineering complexities, but from a computational perspective it is really not much more complicated … why don’t you read the paper on the google file system, BigTable and MapReduce. All of these are simple concepts.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:43:48 +0000

Who are you?

By: fred

fred — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:21:10 +0000

So if Microsoft kissed Mikey’s ass and paid for advertising I suspect the tone of your articles would change.

Start being a real journalist and not merely an Apple fanboy!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:16:32 +0000

I think I see what is happening here. Using simple cryptography from the British Enigma machine, I was able to cross out letters from “PHOTOSYNTH” and “MONTY PYTHON” leaving only “SHMYN” or reorganized as “MS YH N”. Clearly a message meaning the MSFT-Yahoo merger will never happen. Case closed.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:06:33 +0000

It’s clear you didn’t install nor test the product.

There is a lot of local computation going on and the requirements on the desktop side are also modern. DirectX7 video graphics card e.g. is essential.

[open]
But you are correct, Microsoft never really released a new concept, except for a talking paperclip.
[close sarcastic mood]

By: deleo

deleo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:59:50 +0000

Google got the jump with Google Earth, but Microsoft is really jumping ahead now with Photosynth. I think this will be huge in the coming years.

Server failure or not, congratulations to them for creating such a wonderful piece of technology!