October 2008 Entries

Using colaab parts 1 and 2

To tie in with the launch of our technical preview of colaab we’ve recorded a couple of screencasts of what users can expect upon enter colaab. These are also available to users upon login. Part 1: Part 2:

posted @ Saturday, October 25, 2008 3:48 PM | Feedback (1)

Silverlight DeepZoom LifeStream Photo Aggregator or DeepZoomLifeStreamInfiniteImageQuilt for short

Just another quick idea that crossed my mind for using Silverlight DeepZoom. Basically build a simple web service that allowed people to submit images from multiple sources – through the website itself, from their camera, from their phone, hook into their Flickr / Fhotobucket / Facebook etc account, FireFox extension / IE8 Accelerator which allowed you to “add to my DeepZoom”. These images would then be assembled into one ever expanding DeepZoom image, with some sort of algorithm for position and size based on recentness and attention data recorded from people viewing the application. Perhaps even allow...

posted @ Sunday, October 12, 2008 2:23 PM | Feedback (1)

Silverlight DeepZoom CrowdShots

This came from the realisation that real expressions on people’s faces when they were unguarded were a really interesting thing to look at. This combines with an idea for a business model based around Microsoft Silverlight’s new DeepZoom technology, which basically involves taking high resolution images of crowd’s at sporting events at key moments and allowing DeepZoom enabled interaction with the results via a web application. This could then be monetized through either up front charges for integrating into the websites of the sporting institutions themselves or via a revenue split on both the advertising sold and...

posted @ Monday, October 06, 2008 3:56 PM | Feedback (4)

Microsoft Windows Cloud

Over the last couple of years I’ve been a keen proponent of the usefulness to web application developers of cloud based services. Of course, I may have originally been calling them simply “services” but over the last 18 months or so there has been a massive rise in the use and misuse of the term “cloud” – cloud computing, cloud services, cloud storage. Recently Steve Ballmer let loose a few choice nuggets about what’s coming from Microsoft in this regard, even going as far as to cite “Windows Cloud”. In a lot of instances people are simply using the...

posted @ Sunday, October 05, 2008 4:37 PM | Feedback (0)

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storm ideas ltd, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in April 2008 with the purpose of building web applications that allow communities, networks and businesses to connect and collaborate.

In this vein, we are passionate about the viral framework of social media and the opportunities networking sites represent to connect web-users from across a socio-geographic spectrum.

Equally, we are inspired by Microsoft Silverlight as an enabler for creating richer applications within the browser and, with this in mind, we look to create systems that provide new ways of understanding and interacting with information.

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