As you look at things like Bing’s Streetside, you might be thinking it would be great for something like real time driving directions. Billy Chen, a research in MSN’s Advanced Engineering team, has been thinking about this from the ground up. The result is this interesting way of connecting the visual memory humans have from having driven to a location before with a movie created from the slides from point A to B in Bing maps. Billy joined us to tell us more about this project.
Braincandy for your needs…
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MSN Videomap Directions
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First Look: Streetside in Bing Maps
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This is a huge day for Bing Maps and as you’ll see in this video a really great day for developers as well. Streetside imagery has been integrated into Bing Maps and they released the beta Silverlight version of the site. Other great features include enhanced birds eye, the application gallery, photosynth and simplified navigation. Chris Pendleton took me for a test drive to show off how it all works and there is some extra special devevloper love at the end just for you guys.
Check out Chris’ blog post for more info.
Paul was gone this week but we quickly filled his place with Microsoft Software Development Engineer, Adam DePue. Here’s the top stories that ‘Softies were talking about post-PDC.
Chrome. Really.
Dancing breaks out in Microsoft Stores
What the kids are doing these days
Natal- the best of ‘09?
Bing & Iphone working together
It’s PDC week and trust me, that’s what everybody is talking about- but the ‘Softies did manage to stir up quite a bit of buzz for these stories:
Microsoft gives out Facebook SDK
MSN Video –> Bing Video
Tag n Tweet
Bill Gates- where are you?
Dolly Parton loves IE8!
Also– we had a technical crash while recording so we are missing the main camera (two shot)- apologies in advance for the bouncy camera edits- best we could do!
There actually is a valid reason for Paul to be wearing that shirt! Check out what the ‘Softies were all buzzing about this week:
Big news about SQL Server
Happy Birthday Bill Gates!
MSN gets a make-over
Windows 7 heals itself
Bing & Google
This week on Channel 9, we do our first ever live smooth-streaming episode with special guest Nic Fillingham. On the show we discuss:
- Our ch9live Twitter account to take questions during the show
- The new MSN page design
- MSN also integrates Bing
- Nic discusses his new Zune HD
- Sarah Perez – How to make Zune-compatible movies with Movie Maker
- Expression Blend 3 Zune Website Starter Kit
- Larry Larsen – NBC goes Silverlight for Winter Olympics
- TwinBox – How to use Twitter in Outlook
- Windows 7 sponsored theme packs, via Long Zheng
- Microsoft Press – Ten free Windows 7 book chapters
- Rudi Grobler – Anatomy of a Windows 7 Tabbed Thumbnail Part 1 & Part 2
- Lee Mathews – Download Squad – New tool enables you to right-click and mount VHDs
- Jason Allor - LinqLite is a small library of LINQ expressions to simplify building your own LINQ provider, via Brad Abrams
- Fabrice Marguerie – MSDN – How to detect and avoid memory and resource leaks in .NET applications, via Charlie Calvert
- PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010, via Greg Duncan
Picks of the week
Dan’s pick: – Coding4Fun - Halloween Gremlins – Move a mouse, shake the screen, scroll windows and more
Nic’s pick: Tina’s Life at Microsoft video
Web Application Toolkits
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What a day it’s been! As well as releasing Web Platform Installer Version 2, we’ve also launched a bunch of Web App Toolkits that show you how to accomplish common web development tasks with small sample apps. We provide all the source code so that you can go from 0 to F5 in less than 60 seconds. The scenarios we’ve covered with the first round of Web App Toolkits include:
- Add Bing to your website
- Enhance your web app using IE8
- Mobile Web Applications
- Adding FAQ to your website
- Make your web app “social”
- Template driven email
- Add a REST API to your website
We love to hear your feedback, ideas and comments so drop us an email to http://blogs.msdn.com/webapptoolkits or following us on Twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/microsoftweb
Believe it or not us ‘Softies found some really interesting news stories that did NOT have anything to do with Kanye West or the VMA’s. Here’s what really mattered at Microsoft Campus this week:
Browsers & Batteries
Bing images put to good use
Xbox Anywhere
The Xbox Anywhere Channel 10 story
Bing announces Visual Search
Lenovo Multi-Touch
Who should we have on next??
Office Casual – Microsoft Translator
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Doug Thomas from Office Casual and the Office.com team gives us a quick snapshot of Microsoft Translator. A service which allows users to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.
When translating an entire web page, or when the user selects “Translate this page” in Bing search results, the Bilingual Viewer will be shown which allows users to browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, and navigation.
Four Bilingual Viewer layouts are available:
- Side by side
- Top and bottom
- Original with hover translation
- Translation with hover original
Add-in for website owners to add a drop-down menu to their website for translating it into another language supported by Bing Translator
Any-to-Any language translation pairs
Automatically detect the language of the text or website being translated
Ability to easily reverse the translation direction
Integration with Internet Explorer 8 Bing Translator Accelerator
Ping 27: Code7 contest, Get a Mac- Getting tired, Google fears Bing, Swiss street viewing
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This week we got to sit back a little and wax philosophical. What are the right ways to advertise? What applications are useful? When should you really be careful to not get photographed? You tell us….
Win7 app helps with squinting
Tired Mac ads
Is Google scared?
Caught on camera!
and also: No excuse not to see your family this Holiday Season!