Inside Microsoft's New Digital Photo Project

robyn217 writes "While Microsoft Research plays 'Big Brother' to a young hiker's trip across North America, it breaks new ground in digital photography by combining metadata, like location via GPS, with the image. Its online presence looks impressive as it displays digital photo albums on a map of the world, but it's slow and unwieldy for the most part and may not be better than a standard travelogue site. This week, I took a closer look at the project currently named the World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX)."

Comments

Where do you want to go today?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just point at the picture you'd like to go to, and Microsoft will tell you exactly where it is.

Re:Where do you want to go today?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wouldn't mind telling Microsoft where to go.

Re:I for one, am glad ms is getting into this

[Aardpig]

You mean you.... erm.... welcome our new photo/GPS overlords?

"Server too busy"

[Dracolytch]

Great, lets link to a website that has nothing but photos and thumbnails! Ooh wait, better yet! Let's find one that organizes them dynamically with non-trivial algorithms!!

Are we going for a new slashdotting record or something?

~D

They forgot the'.'

[mynameis (mother ...]

But still!

While trying to view the microsoft link above I got the following error message:

Server Error in '/' Application.

Still amazingly honest for Microsoft!/p

Re:Correlating Images and GPS data.

[spikev]

It appears that you just /.ed yourself.

can I get MS to pay for my fantasy trip?

[mpost4]

I wonder how can we get MS to pay for other fantasy trips, I would love to get a boat and live on the sea and go diving every day. I would let them take all the pics they want, hell I would even let them test out the new MS scuba computer with me(as long as I get analog backups)

Article Text

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Server Error in '/' Application.

***** Server Too Busy *****
Description:An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details:System.Web.HttpException: Server Too Busy

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy] System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(HttpW orkerRequest wr) +147

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET
Version:1.1.4322.573

ka-boom

[gregoryb]

but it's slow and unwieldy for the most part

if it wasn't before, it sure as heck is now!! yah slashdot!

Re:Interesting how so many people know it's no goo

[Woy]

Haha you can't get me you hacker! Everybody knows (i read it at that very website) we're not supposed to click links...