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October 6th, 2011 | James Taylor | Categories: Development, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Music, Outdoor, Technology | Tags: dj, gesture, Inspiration, Interactive, kinect, Microsoft, Music, sound |
Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.
Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.
April 22nd, 2011 | Friends | Categories: Development, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Technology, Tool | Tags: app, image stitching, iphone, Microsoft, photosynth |
Microsoft’s Photosynth is now available for the iPhone as a free app, allowing you to shoot and view stitched panoramas.
http://www.petapixel.com/2011/04/20/photosynth-comes-to-the-iphone-to-help-you-shoot-stitched-panoramas/
October 26th, 2010 | Friends | Categories: Art, Development, Inspiration, Interactive, Online, Technology | Tags: Art, development, Inspiration, Interactive, Microsoft, Online |
To promote IE9, Microsoft demonstrates the power of HTML5 in this Wild Wild West-themed comic book story, “Never Mind the Bullets.”
October 11th, 2010 | James Taylor | Categories: Art, Development, Inspiration, Technology | Tags: design, development, Microsoft, Technology, typography |
Lost World’s Fairs is a stunning html site exploring the typographic possibilities on the web. The site was commissioned by Microsoft to promote Internet Explorer 9′s support of WOFF (Web Open Font Format ).
WOFF is a font format for use in web pages. It is in the process of being standardized as a recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium, which expects WOFF to soon become the single, interoperable font format supported by all browsers. -Wikipedia
via Daring Fireball
March 5th, 2010 | Friends | Categories: Gaming, Inspiration, Interactive, Online, Social | Tags: Bing, Facebook, Farmville, game, Microsoft, social gaming, social network, virtual cash |
Interesting article from AllFacebook.com talks about how Bing advertised through Farmville and incentivized users to become their Facebook fan by offering them Farmville cash.
As a result, Bing got 400,000 Facebook fans in one day, with Bing posts showing up in their newsfeeds. Is this a clever new way to advertise on Facebook, along the lines of offering a free limited gift in the old Facebook days? In the current realm of Facebook, what other advertising opportunities do you see?
March 3rd, 2010 | Friends | Categories: Data Visualization, Interactive, Online | Tags: Data Visualization, Microsoft, Pivot |
Interesting TED talk on a Microsoft Live Labs product called
“Pivot”.
“Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun…By visualizing hidden patterns, Pivot enables users to discover new insights while interacting with thousands of things at once. ”
