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February 28, 2006
Windows Live UI
Windows Live UI: Microsoft introduces a photo database with a browser-based map UI... looks like they took a whole lot of photos in Seattle and San Francisco, and by navigating the map you can look around at what the camera captured that data. Layout is in HTML, interactivity in JavaScript, with ongoing image requests through the course of a session. The interface confused me a bit... the top half shows photos (looks best at 1024x768 pixels), while the bottom shows your choice of avatar and an optional map (click "street"). You can orient your avatar in ninty-degree increments, which may work better on a street with a pure north-oriented grid layout than on SF's off-angle streets. It's an interesting interface, but I'm still not sure I've figured out how to use it....
Posted by John Dowdell at February 28, 2006 1:27 PM