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re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon

Hb8 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:50:26 GMT

I had been wondering what had happened to my calendar!

re: Wave 3 urls start resolving, services betas coming soon

damaster — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:38:26 GMT

Not to mention http://group.live.com redirects to Spaces too. =)

http://people.live.com had been working for me for at least about 3 weeks now, redirecting to the regular Hotmail.

re: Photosynth: User Review

Sunshine — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:36:03 GMT

Sunny,

You can in the Sandbox Module ;)

re: Photosynth: User Review

Sunny — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:05:47 GMT

well, not in a blog entry

re: Photosynth: User Review

Sunny — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:01:46 GMT

It's not possible to embed a Synth to Windows Live Spaces. Because spaces doesn't support Iframes. :-/

re: Windows Live Video Messages site is live for now (it says Sept 9th)

joeale — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:04:57 GMT

Will this intergated in two windows live messager is there any info on this out there.

re: PhotoSynth released as a Worldwide “Software + Services” Download, to become part of MSN

joeale — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:03:06 GMT

How will this used msn and can it bee used on windows live spaces.

re: West Des Moines, Iowa is “Where the Internet Lives”; site for newest Microsoft data center

surilamin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:31:43 GMT

Shawn Johnson is a cutie. I was rooting for her and her teammates during the Olympics...

re: West Des Moines, Iowa is “Where the Internet Lives”; site for newest Microsoft data center

Alber1690 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:33:54 GMT

So 50-75 workers will now officially run the place "where the Internet lives?" No pressure...

re: Photosynth: User Review

Sunshine — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:15:04 GMT

It's not your computer Matt, it's loading every now and then and if it does it be in limited mode. Just a minute ago I saw a message in my embedded Synth here saying:

"The Photosynth site is a little overwhelmed just now. While we're reviving it you can still install the viewer and check out some amazing synths. Download and install our viewer, and then refresh this page.

Can't get enough of Photosynth? Please check out our blog or join us for general discussion on our community site hosted by Get Satisfaction."

Looks like they weren't quite prepared for the demand.

Reply at their forum:

"Photosynth has been under incredible demand since we released late yesterday evening. Getting ready for the launch we did massive amounts of performance testing, built capacity model after capacity model, and yet with all of that, you threw so many uploads at the service we had to throttle them back for a few hours.

At the same time, we tried to tweak a few database settings to allow us to handle more uploads and inadvertently introduced a bug that is causing a small percent of synths to fail with an error code or hang right at the end. We're rolling back that change now and that should fix the majority of those errors.

While that is being fixed, we are adding capacity as fast as we can and letting in more and synthers. Keep trying, but it might be a few hours before we can get everyone in. In the mean time, we hope you will check out our "How to Synth" video, grab a camera, head outside and start taking pictures for the next awesome synth.

No excuses; just the facts on why you are seeing these issues. We really appreciate the enthusiasm and are hard at work ironing out the issues and adding more capacity."

re: PhotoSynth released as a Worldwide “Software + Services” Download, to become part of MSN

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:43:26 GMT

@jntowers - certainly there's a cool factor, also creating 360degree views required special equipment that can now be done with a simple camera. For practical use, we'll have to see how MSN puts it to use, but especially with "crowdsourcing" there could be some very cool use cases.

And btw did check on VE/MSN. "In terms of VE/MSN, they are both part of the same organization." - that from an MS spokesperson.

re: Photosynth: User Review

Matt — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:52:19 GMT

photosynth.net doesn't load.... seems that IE can't find the page. is this just my computer?

re: PhotoSynth released as a Worldwide “Software + Services” Download, to become part of MSN

jntowers — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:15:35 GMT

I'm not trying to be a cynic, but is there any practical use to Photosynth? If you have to go to the effort to take pictures in an appropriate manner for it to work correctly anyway, I don't see how it's much different than just creating a slideshow with a fade effect. That, to me, seems to be what a majority of these look like so far anyway. I mean, it's a cool tool, especially when you get the high "synthy" percentages - but I don't really see a practical use. But hey, I tend to be shortsighted, so please educate me!

re: PhotoSynth released as a Worldwide “Software + Services” Download, to become part of MSN

quikboy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:30:36 GMT

Hey, they took down the Deepfish browser page. I saw this blog entry and it said they gave up:

livelabs.com/.../deepfish-hello-i-must-be-going

That really sucks. Microsoft really needs to start rethinking the idea of a mobile browser. As well as doing a whole redo on WinMo and pushing the hardware makers to do a consistent form factor to work on.

re: PhotoSynth released as a Worldwide “Software + Services” Download, to become part of MSN

Kip Kniskern — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:17:15 GMT

PhotoSynth is part of the Virtual Earth team, as was reported here on LiveSide. According to the PhotoSynth press release tonight "Following this release, the Photosynth team will join MSN — an important step in continuing to improve Photosynth and share the experience with an even wider audience. " So "joining" MSN may be more of a marketing phrase than a re-org - we'll try to get confirmation.