New Microsoft photo site spends first day offline

Microsoft Corp.'s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.

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Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas

Digital cameras have liberated awe-struck travelers and proud parents from worrying about the price of film processing. But showing off those megapixels of memories is still reminiscent of tedious living room slideshows — and perhaps now worse, because instead of one blurry photo of the Eiffel Tower or the high school musical, there might be 50.

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This article talks about how Photosynth from Microsoft works and how it can be used to make a 3D scanner of Anything.

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A new online software service allows you to build three-dimensional scenes out of dozens of photographs. Photosynth—a free photo-sharing service launched Thursday by Microsoft Live Labs—may just change the way you look at the rest of the world.

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Not so fast Mac users. Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.

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The forensic work portrayed on the "CSI" TV series has met its match in the sophistication found in the business of branded entertainment. Looking at the role Microsoft's technology played in Wednesday's episode of "CSI: NY" makes that clear.

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The business of branded entertainment and product integration is big and getting bigger. An analysis of the role Microsoft's technology played in Wednesday's episode of "CSI: NY" emphasizes just how sophisticated this form of advertising has become.

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Imagine calling up your health data any time, any place. Microsoft already is hard at work to make that happen, along with other projects aimed at rebuilding society's infrastructure.

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I had been wondering what the latest news on Photosynth was so I just jumped over to their blog to find out that almost two months ago they released a Firefox extension/plugin for the service.

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About the potential of PhotoSynth. As always, there's a high possibility that Microsoft screws it.

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Is Microsoft finally doing something cool? Or ... who did they rip this idea off of?

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Microsoft launches Photosynth demo videos. Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space.

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