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Inside Microsoft's New Digital Photo Project

Posted by michael on from the wear-good-socks dept.

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)."

2 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. "Server too busy" by Dracolytch · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  2. They forgot the'.' by mynameis+(mother+... · · Score: 5, Funny
    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