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Hello, I’m Matt Uyttendaele. we routinely post over upon the HD View blog, though currently the Digital Memories Team is giving me this space to speak about Microsoft ICE.  In my blog post announcing the Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE), we referred to the parsimonious formation with the subsequent chronicle of Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG).  That subsequent chronicle has been accessible for the whilst now, so we longed for to give WLPG users the discerning intro to ICE.  Most of we have been substantially informed with the “create breathtaking image” capabilities in WLPG.  My organisation in Microsoft Research grown the record during the back of this.  ICE is an one some-more apparatus which we can make make use of of to emanate breathtaking images.  It uses the same record as WLPG underneath the metal cover as well as adds the couple of features. 

Orientation Tool

Probably the many critical underline is the course tool.  When formulating the breathtaking print there have been many opposite ways which we might wish to uncover the result.  In the cinema next have been examples of this.  In the initial case, the user has mutated the course to give the sense which the tilt/shift lens was used.  In the second case, the user motionless to make make use of of the viewpoint projection instead of the cylindrical one.  In the last example, the user had the 360-degree scenery as well as longed for to set the median of the scenery somewhat differently. 

Choose the scenery course in ICE:

Choose the law projection in ICE:

Choose the 360 mid-point in ICE:

These edits were all completed regulating the ICE course tool.  This apparatus gives we interactive feedback of your adjustments, so it is easy to examination as well as get only what we wish out of it.  The cinema upon top of give an thought of what we can do with the course tool, though the many appropriate approach to get the feel for the apparatus is to try it out upon your own panoramas. 

Export Options

The second vital underline is the far-reaching accumulation of trade options. The many engaging of these have been Deep Zoom as well as HD View.  When we emanate the scenery with WLPG or ICE, the outcome can be the really vast image.  Posting this mega-image to the web formula in the less-than-ideal knowledge for people who wish to demeanour during it.  It takes the prolonged time to download, as well as observation in the browser isn’t the good approach to knowledge it.  Deep Zoom as well as HD View have been the good approach to compromise this problem.   If we name the single of these trade options, afterwards ICE will beget the web page which handles observation these images in the many some-more fit manner.  In possibly case, the web page uses the special browser plug-in.  For Deep Zoom this plug-in is Silverlight – which will let people correlate with your scenery regulating any browser upon Personal Computer or Mac.  You can perspective the little examples of Deep Zoom pages combined by ICE upon the Microsoft Research web site. 

HD View is an engaging choice for those of we who wish to check out Microsoft Research antecedent technology.  Just similar to Deep Zoom, HD View allows users to correlate well with really vast images over the web.  It has the little cold one some-more capabilities similar to being means to rewarp the scenery upon the fly using the fish-eye lens, auto-exposure regulate for looking in to those low shadows of the panorama, as well as support for wide-color-gamut monitors.  The HD View web page has the little good examples to demeanour at.

WLPG Integration

For many of your scenery origination projects WLPG substantially does all which we need it to do.  However, during times we might need to do the little of the some-more modernized things referred to here.  So, we inspire we to download ICE as well as give it the try.  Oh yeah, only similar to WLPG, ICE is free.  Finally, we need to discuss the formation with WLPG.  Once you’ve commissioned ICE, you’ll see the brand new menu object in the WLPG “Extras” menu, as shown below.  You simply name the organisation of images as well as launch ICE regulating this menu item.

– Matt Uyttendaele, Microsoft Research

Hello, I’m Matt Uyttendaele. we routinely post over upon the HD View blog, though currently the Digital Memories Team is giving me this space to speak about Microsoft ICE.  In my blog post announcing the Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE), we referred to the parsimonious formation with the subsequent chronicle of Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG).  That subsequent chronicle has been accessible for the whilst now, so we longed for to give WLPG users the discerning intro to ICE.  Most of we have been substantially informed with the “create breathtaking image” capabilities in WLPG.  My organisation in Microsoft Research grown the record during the back of this.  ICE is an one some-more apparatus which we can make make use of of to emanate breathtaking images.  It uses the same record as WLPG underneath the metal cover as well as adds the couple of features. 

Orientation Tool

Probably the many critical underline is the course tool.  When formulating the breathtaking print there have been many opposite ways which we might wish to uncover the result.  In the cinema next have been examples of this.  In the initial case, the user has mutated the course to give the sense which the tilt/shift lens was used.  In the second case, the user motionless to make make use of of the viewpoint projection instead of the cylindrical one.  In the last example, the user had the 360-degree scenery as well as longed for to set the median of the scenery somewhat differently. 

Choose the scenery course in ICE:

Choose the law projection in ICE:

Choose the 360 mid-point in ICE:

These edits were all completed regulating the ICE course tool.  This apparatus gives we interactive feedback of your adjustments, so it is easy to examination as well as get only what we wish out of it.  The cinema upon top of give an thought of what we can do with the course tool, though the many appropriate approach to get the feel for the apparatus is to try it out upon your own panoramas. 

Export Options

The second vital underline is the far-reaching accumulation of trade options. The many engaging of these have been Deep Zoom as well as HD View.  When we emanate the scenery with WLPG or ICE, the outcome can be the really vast image.  Posting this mega-image to the web formula in the less-than-ideal knowledge for people who wish to demeanour during it.  It takes the prolonged time to download, as well as observation in the browser isn’t the good approach to knowledge it.  Deep Zoom as well as HD View have been the good approach to compromise this problem.   If we name the single of these trade options, afterwards ICE will beget the web page which handles observation these images in the many some-more fit manner.  In possibly case, the web page uses the special browser plug-in.  For Deep Zoom this plug-in is Silverlight – which will let people correlate with your scenery regulating any browser upon Personal Computer or Mac.  You can perspective the little examples of Deep Zoom pages combined by ICE upon the Microsoft Research web site. 

HD View is an engaging choice for those of we who wish to check out Microsoft Research antecedent technology.  Just similar to Deep Zoom, HD View allows users to correlate well with really vast images over the web.  It has the little cold one some-more capabilities similar to being means to rewarp the scenery upon the fly using the fish-eye lens, auto-exposure regulate for looking in to those low shadows of the panorama, as well as support for wide-color-gamut monitors.  The HD View web page has the little good examples to demeanour at.

WLPG Integration

For many of your scenery origination projects WLPG substantially does all which we need it to do.  However, during times we might need to do the little of the some-more modernized things referred to here.  So, we inspire we to download ICE as well as give it the try.  Oh yeah, only similar to WLPG, ICE is free.  Finally, we need to discuss the formation with WLPG.  Once you’ve commissioned ICE, you’ll see the brand new menu object in the WLPG “Extras” menu, as shown below.  You simply name the organisation of images as well as launch ICE regulating this menu item.

– Matt Uyttendaele, Microsoft Research

To ruin with unpacking. As we expel a contemplative peek during SXSW as well as MIX09 in a rearview mirror, Live Search is revving up for Search Engine Strategies in NYC subsequent week.  Members from both sides of a Search house — Live Search as well as Microsoft Advertising — will verbalise upon a operation of topics, including: blended search, destiny of SEO, transcribe content, integrate building, PPC, keywords, video optimization, as well as most suitable practices when essay copy.  

And be certain to locate us as we demo a ultimate & biggest in a Expo Hall (March 24-25), counter #1012.

We’re participating upon a following panels:

Tuesday, Mar 24

• SEO: Where to Next? 10:30-11:30am
  Duane Forrester, Senior Program Manager, MSN, Microsoft


• Universal & Blended Search Update 3:00-4:00pm
  Todd Schwartz, Group Product Manager, Live Search, Microsoft


• Video Search Optimization  4:30-5:30pm
  Henry Hall, Senior Product Manager, Live Search, Microsoft

Wednesday, Mar 25

• Discover a Power of Linking: Link Building Basics 9:00-10:00am
  Sasi Parthasarathy, Program Manager, Live Search, Microsoft


• Keywords & Content: Search Marketing Foundations 10:45-12:00pm
  Katherine Shappley, Agency Development Executive, Microsoft


• The State of Search – A Maturing Marketplace or Poised for More Growth? 1:00-2:00pm
  James Colborn, Group Manager, Microsoft Advertising, Microsoft


• Four Paths to Success in a Tough Travel Economy 2:15-3:30pm
  Paul Rapino, Senior Director, US Vertical Sales, Microsoft

Thursday, Mar 26

• Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues 10:30-11:45am
  Sasi Parthasarathy, Program Manager, Live Search, Microsoft


• Advanced Keyword Research 10:30-11:45am
  Stacey Helman, Agency Development Executive, Microsoft


• Extreme Makeover: Live Ad Copy & Continuity Clinic! 10:30-11:45am
  Mel Carson, adCenter Community Manager, Europe, Microsoft


• Extreme Makeover: Live Search Advertising Clinic! 3:45-5:00pm
  Mel Carson, adCenter Community Manager, Europe, Microsoft

Thinking about attending?  Use priority formula 20SESMSF2 to embrace 20% off your pass to SES New York. For minute Microsoft Advertising presence, check out Mel Carson’s post upon a adCenter blog. 

Hope to see we there!

Aya Zook, Product Manager, Live Search

*Update*: Due to renouned demand, we’ve done a integrate presentations from SES sessions accessible to a readers. Enjoy!

 

Discover a Power of Linking: Link Building Basics

Discover a Power of Linking: Link Building Basics
Discover how poke engines rest upon integrate research as an critical member for arrange web pages. Learn additionally how to enlarge trade to your site by office office building peculiarity links in an suitable manner.
Moderator: Chris Boggs, Director, SEO, Rosetta

·         Click here to entrance display by Sasi Parthasarathy, Program Manager, Live Search

 

Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
More as well as some-more site owners have been endangered which they competence get penalized incidentally or sincerely since of transcribe content. If we run counterpart sites, will poke engines anathema you? If we have listings which have been identical in nature, is which an issue? What happens if we associate calm by RSS as well as feeds? Will alternative sites be deliberate a “real” site as well as sack we of a legitimate place in a poke results? This event looks during a issues as well as explores solutions.

Moderator: Anne Kennedy, SES Advisory Board, Managing Partner as well as Founder, Beyond Ink

 

Click here to entrance display by Sasi Parthasarathy, Program Manager, Live Search

 

Dharmesh talks about this in some-more item upon the Windows Live Team Blog, though we suspicion it was cold sufficient for the discerning MessengerSays specific post.

This week during Mix09 we expelled the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit that have been controls as well as libraries that bond people who have use of Windows Live Messenger together no have the difference where they have been from the browser to anywhere Windows Live Messenger runs (PC, Phone, Xbox as well as Mac).

In alternative words, we’ve finished it really easy to confederate Windows Live Messenger without delay in to the website regulating usually the couple of lines of javascript.  Not usually does this assistance have the surfing knowledge some-more social, it equates to that as prolonged as we have the web browser as well as internet connection, we can still have the good Windows Live Messenger experience.

Here’s the screenshot of the web bar.  You’ll notice that your full hit list as well as categories have been available, we can discuss with mixed people during once as well as we have all your the one preferred emoticons handy.

The group has finished the good pursuit with this as well as we envision that we will proceed to see this toolkit being used upon some-more as well as some-more websites starting forward.

There is the lot some-more report upon the Messenger Developer blog as well as we inspire we to conduct over there if you’d similar to to sense some-more about how to supplement this to your site.

Lastly, here’s the video of Keiji as well as Steve upon theatre during Mix09.  Where they uncover how to supplement IM to the site with the Windows Live Messenger Library as well as UI Controls.  We additionally have an Interactive SDK that allows we to formula as well as sense during the same time.

Have fun with it.
Lonn
Windows Live Messenger

I was entrance out of a nap upon a craft from Dallas to Las Vegas as well as a male subsequent to me with a undiluted good ol’ child Texas drawl pronounced to his friend: “My income has a improved time in Vegas than we do; it stays as well as we have to leave!”

Las Vegas, notwithstanding a hotels’ caricature of Paris, New York, as well as Venice, is a place similar to no alternative upon Earth . MIX is of march a discussion similar to no other, so a combo is unstoppably surreal. The road house room label keys discuss Azure Services … as well as we guessed it….they have been blue label keys.

Monday, a initial night we was here we managed to run in to Scott Hanselman as well as travel around  these Italian plazas underneath what seemed similar to a blue summer sky – nonetheless we knew it was about 9:30 during night. Seemingly all night as well as all day a gondolas have been receiving tourists around a Venetian Hotel….

Tuesday things proposed hopping, with folks issuing in to a registration booths as well as perplexing out a Microsoft Surface units inside a 3rd Place, a vast loll with snacks as well as couches as well as good conversation.

I watched Jeff Atwood as well as Joel Spolsky of Stack Overflow  setup for their podcast. From duct-taping a apparatus by Jeff….to attempts to get Joel to relax….

..to  a receptive to advice check where we attempted to upset them by fluttering my arms a lot. That’s Joel next giving me The Look.

I suspicion I’d have to miss  a tangible recording, but  a nerd dinner with Scott Hanselman (of march during a Chipotle’s) pennyless up in time for me to locate a finish of a show…

which will be posted upon http://blog.stackoverflow.com/ when they have been finished estimate it.

Today, a initial keynote day, was a host scene. Imagine thousands of people murmuring for coffee  as well as formula all during once, as well as we get a idea.

As initial speaker, Bill Buxton sincerely danced behind as well as onward opposite a stage, gesturing to have his indicate about a need for good pattern (and pattern firms) during bad mercantile times. The likeness in between self-centredness Kodaks in a late 1920’s as well as a colors of a Apple ipods was scary as well as comforting in affirming a timelessness of intelligent pattern decisions.  Developers as well should sense design, he said, since it keeps we from coding nonessential features.

With Scott Guthrie, Silverlight was obviously a star of day one, yet we had a own Live Search partial of which story. What they haven’t told we in a central post is a Disco Scott Guthrie partial of a keynote:

Mostly however  we saw Scott wearing his normal red shirt .

And in a kind of podcast deja vu all over again, we got to see Joel Spolsky as well as Jeff Atwood of Stack Overflow speak about how they built poke engine optimization, reputation, as well as community-love sort facilities in to stackoverflow.com, a startup which is partial of a Microsoft BizSpark module (extremely low price approach to get your commercial operation starting upon Microsoft tech).

Admittedly we have left out people – there were most – whom Scott introduced which did a lot of good demos associated to a brand new advances in Silverlight, as well as a developer collection lonesome upon a http://2009.visitmix.com site. I’m additionally fooling around we out there upon a Internets– there’s some-more good things to come by alternative people about MIX09 as well as we can download a little good collection here…

….but we have to get upon a craft for home as well as get a little tangible work finished shortly.

To get a stability story of MIX09, greatfully keep examination this blog space!

Betsy Aoki,  Program Manager, Live Search

With all starting upon recently, it seems you could all have use of a couple of brand brand new ideas to save time as well as money.  you suspicion which would be a great brand brand new plea all of us in a Windows Community.  What ways have been you regulating Windows Live, Windows Vista, and/or Windows 7 to assistance you find some-more time, outlay reduction money, or may be even both?

If you’re a part of of a community, you’ll see all a sum upon this plea up upon a Clubhouse Site, only click upon Challenges.  If you’re not already a part of of a community, we’d adore to have you stick on us!  Just check out http://clubhouse.microsoft.com/join for some-more information. 

Let’s share a tips as well as stories as well as assistance others have a many of a mins in a day as well as a money you have.

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

For users of a Web, being means to bond to friends as well as set up amicable networks is apropos some-more critical each day. Today, you have been releasing a Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit–a set of controls as well as libraries which capacitate you to bond Windows Live Messenger users as well as their friends with users of your Web site.

 See a video demonstration.

Windows Live Messenger is a many used present messaging services universe wide, with some-more than 320 million monthly active accounts in over 50 countries as well as in 36 languages.

For Web site owners

The Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit provides Web sites with 3 core benefits:

1. User acquisition: Your Web site visitors can assistance you set up your assembly upon a fly by mouth-watering their friends to your site by present messaging.
2. Deeper engagement: The toolkit allows people upon your Web site to simply discuss with their Messenger friends or others upon your site, gripping them their longer.
3. Return traffic: Bringing people behind to your Web site is formidable when a usually arms in your arms depot is email. Using Messenger functionality you can mangle by a inbox gibberish as well as remind people because your have make make use of of of is so great.

For a people

The Windows Live Messenger Web toolkit provides these pass benefits to your users:

1. See your friends in some-more places: Sometimes regulating a brand brand brand brand new web site is a waste experience. You wish to go where everybody knows your name, or during slightest you wish to be means to find your friends. The toolkit allows your users to simply find their friends who already have make make use of of of a site, or bond with existent friends as well as move them to a party.
2. Meet brand brand brand brand new people as well as select if you wish to stay continuous to them: Want to bond with others who share a usual interest? Discover as well as bond with someone who is examination a same videos or commenting upon a same content. Be detected as well as contacted by someone who lives in a same locale or likes a same music. Earn yourself a brand brand brand brand new friend.
3. Express yourself opposite a web: Windows Live Messenger users deposit a lot of time becoming opposite their standing messages, arrangement cinema as well as arrangement name to simulate their mood. Now, this personal countenance can be common with others upon your Web site.

Show me a bits

Web developers can select a turn of customization by regulating a pre-built as well as skinnable Web Bar control, regulating a sixteen modular UI Controls, or office building a complete knowledge from a belligerent up regulating a Windows Live Messenger Library.

We have many cold samples in mixed languages (C#, VB.NET, PHP, Ruby, Java, Python as well as Perl) which uncover you how elementary it is to confederate a Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. So, no have a difference what your style, you’ve got a assistance you need to flog proceed your growth as well as get these brand brand brand brand new capabilities upon your Web site in a snap.

Getting started

The easiest approach to proceed is to use this tool, which provides a step-by-step beam as well as representation formula to get you started.
See a video demonstration.

For people informed with a Windows Live Messenger Library

We’ve listened from developers which they “want to carry out a complete experience, only give us APIs as well as we’ll set up it“. To yield a many appropriate knowledge for everybody regulating Windows Live Messenger there is a sure baseline of functionality which needs to exist. Building this functionality was a lot of bid as well as whilst a little good implementations were built, many developers felt a bid compulsory was a lot so they asked for collection to have it simpler for them to rise faster.

We motionless to broach a set of sixteen JavaScript/HTML controls which can be skinned regulating CSS as well as lengthened regulating a Windows Live Messenger Library. These controls have it really quick for Web developers to let their users bond as well as share with their friends no have a difference where they are.

From v1 to v2.5 you additionally got a little good underline requests as well as you have delivered a garland of these, included:

• Automatic Sign In: Once a user opts in to regulating Messenger upon a site by regulating a “softer” opt-in screen, they can be automatically sealed in by a Web site even if they have make make use of of of a opposite PC.
• Cross page state – you can right away have make make use of of of this upon calm portals where users click in between pages but losing their sealed in status.
• Performance – a web formed opening has been increasing as well as should be identical to a Windows Live Messenger customer when continuous around HTTP.
• Connecting people who aren’t Windows Live Messenger friends, yet – People have connections/relationships all opposite a web, you have right away done it probable to for users to take these relations as well as get to know a people some-more around IM (both web as well as client) as well as afterwards if a user so chooses supplement which chairman to their WLM hit list. Anyone who opts in to regulating Messenger upon their website creates it probable for a website to fool around “match maker” for contacts as well as uncover a participation of people upon any IM customer (Web/phone/Xbox/desktop).

Try it out

You can go to dev.live.com/messenger currently to supplement this to your web site.

Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP during Microsoft, strictly kicked off MIX09 this morning. If we aren’t during a show, we don’t have time to watch a webcasts, or aren’t following all a every day twitter action, here have been a little Live Search-related highlights from a keynote that we competence enjoy:

• Scott showed off a Virtual Earth Silverlight Control, that we’ll be creation accessible to developers upon Friday. Silverlight lets Virtual Earth developers take value of brand new facilities similar to “deep zoom” navigation, that vastly improves users’ mapping experience. For some-more about a Virtual Earth Silverlight Control, check out a Virtual Earth Evangelist blog. Or if you’re propitious sufficient to be during MIX09, don’t dont think about to check out Chris Pendleton’s event upon Friday to listen to more.
• Also voiced currently was a work with CareerBuilder.com. The US’s largest online pursuit site is regulating a Live Search API as well as Silverlight to capacitate employers to poke claimant credentials from places similar to Facebook, blogs, online articles, etc., all in a single search. On Thursday during MIX, Alessandro Catorcini, Senior Program Manager Lead, will speak some-more about updates to a Live Search API as well as how we’re operative with partners to assistance compute their business. Don’t skip it!

Stay tuned for some-more updates from MIX09, together with blog as well as chatter movement from a ground, pleasantness of Live Search’s really own, Betsy Aoki – twitter.com/baoki.

Melissa Powell, Senior Product Manager, Live Search

Since you launched the Clubhouse final month, you have all be formulating the ton of good posts about Windows Vista as well as Windows Live.  I’m really happy to make known which we’ve right away proposed displaying your contributions upon the Windows Vista Discover pages.  Click upon the 4 pages related to from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/discover/default.aspx, or any of the tabs opposite the top.

Here’s an e.g. featuring the really own X-Evolutionist, as well as the couple of alternative informed faces:

Here have been the little alternative people’s posts I’ve seen popping up:

Remember, you usually arrangement the posts which have been rarely rated by all of you, the members of the community.  For these pages, we’ve set the club upon posts with during slightest the 3-star rating.

I goal you’ll check out the Clubhouse as well as the little of the challenges.  Now with these Windows Vista pages as the showcase for your most appropriate blog posts, you can assistance even some-more people sense from your expertise.

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager