By Chinmoy on July 30, 2009
Pagehunt
Want to test your web surfing expertise? Play the new Bing game. Microsoft has recently started a new Bing Pagehunt game based on the Silverlight technology. This service is similar to Google image labeler or the service which allows you to personalize search results moving pages up in a search result and was launched at the SIGIR09 conference in Boston. The only difference is that Microsoft took care to make a game out of it. That way, it can create a free database of user requirements and search behaviour. Clever. Continue reading “Test Your Web Surfing Skills – Bing Pagehunt Game”
Posted in microsoft | Tagged bing, bing innovation, google search competition, humanized search, microsoft innovation, pagehunt game, search, search algorithm
By Chinmoy on July 29, 2009
WWT
WWT is a web2.0 service which lets you view the night sky from telescopes over the earth as well as in space. It runs on the Microsoft’s own silverlight technology and runs within a browser. The service takes you to a journey through the stars which is guided by educators and astronomers. You can pause the tour as well as take a detour if you feel like.
This one service from Microsoft is a reply to Google earth and Google moon combined. This WWT has been created with Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™, delivering state-of-the-art graphics rendering. Continue reading “WWT-Telescopes On Your Desktop”
Posted in microsoft | Tagged integrated telescopes, microsoft innovation, microsoft photosynth, microsoft WWT, world wide telescope
By Chinmoy on July 28, 2009
iGoogle
Google has introduced new comics themes for your personalized Google page of iGoogle. They include themes from all time comic-world legends like Popeye, Garfield, Superman, The Hulk, Vertigo etc to manga and a huge collection. Every theme has a small description below it in the about section, with all the screenshots of the theme. Continue reading “iGoogle Comics Themes”
Posted in google | Tagged custom google page, google homepage, iGoogle, iGoogle comics themes, iGoogle themes
By Chinmoy on July 23, 2009
Youtube 3-D video
[ Image from TechCrunch ]
YouTube is experimenting 3-D videos. With a new Stereoscopic player developed to view the videos, the experimental feature is sure drawing a lot of attention.
Users are also allowed to upload 3-D videos with the requisite tags “yt3d:enable=true and yt3d:aspect=3:4,” . This feature is being developed by Pete in his 20% free time. Continue reading “Youtube Is Experimenting 3D Videos”
Posted in Technology, tweaks, Web2.0, youtube | Tagged 3-d glasses, 3-d video glasses, 3-d video in youtube, 3-d videos, stereoscopic view, youtube brings 3-d video
By Chinmoy on July 22, 2009
Microsoft Open Source
Microsoft has released around 20,000 lines of code for inclusion to Linux for better compatibility with it’s Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V Server 2008 virtualization software. The code will be available to both the Linux core as well as Linux users and includes three device drivers hooks and not the device drivers itself as reported at many places( Microsoft will never write Linux a device driver). It will be released under GNU GPL 2. Continue reading “Microsoft Is Offering Code To Linux Core!”
Posted in windows | Tagged 000 lines of code to linux, Linux, linux code from microsoft, linux device driver from microsoft, linux device drivers from microsoft, linux driver hook from linux, linux version 2.6.30.1, microsoft, microsoft offers 22, microsoft offers code to linux, open source
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