“a cool photo-stitching feature in Microsoft Acrylic. Scanned images or photographs usually capture a limited amount of information, forcing us to take multiple scans/photos of a panoramic view or a large original image.Microsoft Acrylic provides one of the best image-stitching features by seamlessly combining multiple images. This feature was a direct result of our collaboration with MSR. Here is an example of what you can do with photo-stitching.”< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
So I went into my backyard, randomnly snapped photos with my digital camera then loaded them up on my PC into the Acrylic Beta and with a flick of a menu item I got the photo below.
Here is the “official” Gillmor Gang from Gnomedex 5, with Dave Winer, Adam Curry, Dean Hachomovitch of Microsoft’s Team RSS, younger smarter brother Dan Gillmor, IT Conversations’ Doug Kaye, and the Scobleizer Bunny doing his Dr. Phil dance. Thanks to Jake Luddington, Chris Pirillo, and Ponzi.
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No steenkin’ topic and zero preparation: Jon Udell, Dana Gardner, Dan Farber, Mike Vizard, and Doc Searls. Paraphrasing Udell, at moments you can vaguely see the outline of something interesting.
Gillmor Gang Raw: July 17, 2005 77 minutes 10 seconds
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Alistair Shrimpton of Six Apart and myself are trying to assemble a central database of folk who build blogs, wikis, websites etc on a professional basis. Please go check out the wiki and feel free to add your name (or the name of a recommendation) to the list.
People are always asking the both of us, “Where can I find a good blog designer?” We thought it was time to come up with an easy-to-use solution that anybody on the planet could make good use of.
If you know anyone who qualifies, please spread the word. Thanks.
Joint launch of VS05, SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) and BizTalk 2006 starts in San Francisco, Monday, Nov.7, proceeding to 89 other sites, including VSLive! Sydney.
Stagger Lee and John Henry are legends of popular culture and popular music, and I’ve heard songs about them over the years, but never really knew much about who they were and what they did.
Jason Chervokas changed that for me and will change it for you, if you wish, with his latest edition of Down In The Flood, his weekly podcast on american roots music.
It’s 39 minutes of history and music and its simply great.
If for some reason you don’t want to click on the link, here are a few short snippets:
With Longhorn, Microsoftwill begin pushing opium. Well, technically it’s OPM. However, opium might be a good option for those livid that thevideo content being sent to their pristine 24-inch Dell LCD monitors is purposefully being “fuzzied” (more on thatlater). … So what will happen when you try to play premium content on your incompatible monitor? If you’re “lucky”, the contentwill go through a resolution constrictor. The purpose of this constrictor is to down-sample high-resolution content tobelow a certain number of pixels. The newly down-sampled content is then blown back up to match the resolution of yourmonitor. This is much like when you shrink a JPEG and then zoom into it. Much of the clarity is lost. The result is apicture far fuzzier than it need be. … If OPM determines that your monitor falls below the securityrestrictions (i.e. isn’t DVI or HDMI w/HDCP), you could be greeted with a “polite message explaining that [yourmonitor] doesn’t meet security requirements.”
This is the first time I have heard of this OPM stuff and I need to do more research before I truly believe that Microsoft is really going to do something this dumb, but there it is.
All the great RSS stuff that is coming in Longhorn won’t help me a bit because if I have to live with this, I won’t be using Longhorn.
Gnomedex 5.0 is over. What a great conference. I met a bunch of really intresting people are invovled with some really cool stuff. Many thanks to Chris Pirillo and Ponzi for organizing such an amazing event. I’ll definitely be back next year.
Here are my (non-Flickr) Gnomedex 5.0 photo galleries:
These are a few highlights from my Gnomedex 5.0 experience:
- I met a bunch of the guys from Bryght (they host community content websites based on Drupal) who where down from Vancouver. Really great folks. They convinced Lee to have a BBQ before the event started which was an excellent way to kick off the weekend.
- In his keynote speech, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team, announced that Longhorn will be supporting RSS, including IE. All the Microsoft people there were wearing t-shirts that said “Longhorn [heart symbol] RSS”. They are also developing some RSS enhancements called Simple List Extensions, which they will be releasing under the Creative Commons license and they even showed a video of Lawrence Lessig showing his support for this project. It’s great to see Microsoft get behind an open standard like RSS and include it in the next version of their browser (most other browsers already have this feature). There’s more info about all of this on the IE Blog.
- I metAbe Fettig and Scott McMullan from JotSpot who were working on a really cool live editing feature of their wiki script. I helped them with some Safari QA work when they first launched it at the conference.
- Later Saturday night, Robert Scoble, the infamous “Microsoft Geek Blogger” organized a meetup at the Zig Zag Cafe as well as a breakfast the following morning. It was great hanging out with someone who works for Microsoft and is not afraid to speak his mind about that company’s actions and policies, especially when he disagrees with them. Robert was also the one who provided the bright red couch that was on stage during the conference and he and Chris Pirillo spent some “quality time” on it throughout the event.
Gnomedex 5.0 is over. What a great conference. I met a bunch of really intresting people are invovled with some really cool stuff. Many thanks to Chris Pirillo and Ponzi for organizing such an amazing event. I’ll definitely be back next year.
Here are my (non-Flickr) Gnomedex 5.0 photo galleries:
These are a few highlights from my Gnomedex 5.0 experience:
- I met a bunch of the guys from Bryght (they host community content websites based on Drupal) who where down from Vancouver. Really great folks. They convinced Lee to have a BBQ before the event started which was an excellent way to kick off the weekend.
- In his keynote speech, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team, announced that Longhorn will be supporting RSS, including IE. All the Microsoft people there were wearing t-shirts that said “Longhorn [heart symbol] RSS”. They are also developing some RSS enhancements called Simple List Extensions, which they will be releasing under the Creative Commons license and they even showed a video of Lawrence Lessig showing his support for this project. It’s great to see Microsoft get behind an open standard like RSS and include it in the next version of their browser (most other browsers already have this feature). There’s more info about all of this on the IE Blog.
- I metAbe Fettig and Scott McMullan from JotSpot who were working on a really cool live editing feature of their wiki script. I helped them with some Safari QA work when they first launched it at the conference.
- Later Saturday night, Robert Scoble, the infamous “Microsoft Geek Blogger” organized a meetup at the Zig Zag Cafe as well as a breakfast the following morning. It was great hanging out with someone who works for Microsoft and is not afraid to speak his mind about that company’s actions and policies, especially when he disagrees with them. Robert was also the one who provided the bright red couch that was on stage during the conference and he and Chris Pirillo spent some “quality time” on it throughout the event.
If you’re a regular, you’ve probably seen my post about RSS right after Microsoft’s announcement of their new RSS campaign and native support for it on Windows Longhorn. You’ve also seen how I disagree with one specific point of Microsoft’s announcement and blogged about it (see this blog post). This post is a reply to Robert Scoble at Microsoft who believes that my opinion is that they’re messing up.
