Microsoft apparently isn’t going to ignore the iPhone completely. They released a Seadragon application for the iPhone today that lets users “infinitely zoom” on high quality images with near zero transition times. The embed below shows Seadragon in action, and the experience on the iPhone is very similar.
We’ve covered Seadragon applications like TouchWall and pptPlex previously, and in March Microsoft built it into Silverlight.
You can browse a few photosets included in the application or add your own content from Photosynth or any RSS feed.
Get the application at this iTunes link. More on the excellent 148apps.
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Good.
What we need next is a Netflix app (which is now based on MSFT’s SilverLight) for the iPhone/iTouch.
This is cool technology, but how will it make money - Has microsoft gone sourceforge?
Great question how will it make money?
Will it be called Sourcesoft, or Microsource.
you think that is going to happen
jack
http://www.yocial.com
Actually it already exists and it’s called http://www.codeplex.com
Why is Microsoft not in the Crunchbase links? Isn’t that who the article is about after all?
I just though exactly the same!
Thought
Thanx for the tip - can’t wait to try it.
Good strategy by MS - be interesting to see if it will be accepted by the Apple loyalist community
the mapping on this is so much better then that of the inbuilt google maps, particularly because the zooming is amazingly beautiful. if they can make an iphone application based on windows live maps, with the zooming features of seadragon they’ll have a winner.
This is cool! Microsoft is really doing the best possible ways to extend its industry.
they can’t ignore the iphone completely……becuase it’s going gangbusters….
Microsoft is trying to establish monopoly even in the communication field…
They’ve also released full Photosynth support for Mac OSX today as well. Nice!
The name and logo are so firefox …
This is a really great step forward for popularizing multi-resolution image formats and opening up a whole new vector in interface design. As a former member of the team you can read my take on where this is heading over at http://8ninths.com/?p=686
How does it money? It doesn’t. MS is trying to rebrand with new technologies. If you do a survey asking people to name innovative companies, ms won’t make top 20.
Having said that, I do see a use. Mobile porn!
too late
http://www.onetapporn.com lol
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Remind me again how this is impressive; if you can make the same thing as a web based ‘app’ than what’s the big deal? this seams like something that could have just been a flash file you download on your iPhone and do the same thing; I mean it’s not impressive at all, and other devices did the same thing ages ago. This is a free kinda a thing, not worth a penny.
microsoft and i have very different ideas of what the word “infinite” means…
what is the use of this thing? Its not like people are going to use it and besides this thing doesn’t zoom infinitely…
This is nothing new - Zoomify were doing multi-resolution zooming for years before MS came along with Seadragon.
And .. if an app like Seadragon works so well on the iphone (and it does) then why not the Flash player?
“And .. if an app like Seadragon works so well on the iphone (and it does) then why not the Flash player?”
Because Flash Player makes even my work Mac pro with 10GB of RAM chug a little. Adobe introduces bloat with each new version (and not just in Flash - the same is true for Reader, Creative Suite, etc.) and that’s not conducive to good performance on a small device like the iPhone.
well, if you can’t beat them, join them! no point fighting the iphone, as much as we would all like to..
is this thing just a thumbnail gallery that becomes sharp when zoom?
I don’t get it,
Hehe
For all the ‘blah, we don’t care’ MS has exhibited about the iPhone, here they are making an app for it. Why am I not surprised?
For those of you who dont get the “infinite” zoom check out http://memorabilia.hardrock.com and look for the beatles collection on the left - SGT Buddy Dresner Letter and zoom into the stamp and well just keep zooming….. If you look into the grid of images see if you can find the dolls in picture thats in the window of the shop (2 across and third down) it was in a demo i saw!…. this is unreal!
Hint: Once the Silverlight application loads, click to dismiss the pop-up window (if any), and press the ‘v’ key on your keyboard.
That will bring you straight to the Beatles dolls, and have fun slowly zooming out from there.
The iphone is the best thing ever made honestly other than the computer of course but google and no one can top it in my opinion anyways i found thie website that sells phones
http://www.tycromedia.com/
This is not spam at all
Does anyone know how to obtain revenue info for the iphone apps? Is there a way to obtain number of users for the free apps?
Meh.
Microsoft is trying to establish monopoly even in the communication field….
Can we expected a MicrosoftiPhoneLocator.com? SilverLightLocator.com? Calling Mr. Locator… Repeat..
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“Locator is a service that’s integrated with Google Maps™ and Google location-based services to show consumers the nearby locations of merchants sending them offers, or of an ATM that accepts Visa.”
http://www.unwiredview.com/200.....n-android/
IdeasLocator.com - there everywhere
What a name..
http://www.benzeneinternational.com
I had to try it. I just had to see if Microsoft could pull it off. I downloaded. And guess what? They couldn’t pull it off. The first picture I went to, I had problems. I found the one with “Earth city lights” or something. Basically, this should have “infinite zoom”, right? Well, this pic opened to a flat map of the earth, with little lights. I two-finger touch zoom in a bunch of times, and it zooms into a blurry white spot over NY. Then I zoom out a bunch of times. I guess I zoom out too much. The picture got too small and went off the screen. I ended up with a blank screen and no navigational queues to get me back. Even after I quit the app with the home button and went back in, it went straight back to a maxi-zoomed out picture off screen that I couldn’t navigate back to, and I couldn’t get back to the Seadragon home screen.
Microsoft’s first try on the iPhone. The very first damn picture. Screwed up. Microsoft simply cannot, and has not, done anything remotely correct since Microsoft Bob!
you think that is going to happen..
The name and logo are so firefox ……
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