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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)."

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  1. Hee hee! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    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

  2. Re:Slow??? From Microsoft? You must be joking... by Code-Ex · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't it obvious... it is slow and unwieldy because it is taking a slashot'ing right now.

  3. What am I missing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The Nikon D1x and D1h have had serial ports for connecting a GPS for years. THey embed the data in the header of the image file...

  4. Breaks new ground? Excuse me? by Myself · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's funny, 3 years ago when I bought a DigitaOS-equipped camera, I found programs that would let me connect an NMEA0183-compliant GPS receiver to the camera's serial port, and embed the coordinates in the JPEG's EXIF header. The concept certainly isn't new.

    The problem with Flashpoint is that their SDK is expensive for personal use, and downright absurd for commercial use. The dev kit shouldn't exceed the cost of the device it's for, IMHO. I'd love to see an open OS for a prosumer-grade digital camera.

  5. new ground??? by ajagci · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it breaks new ground in digital photography by combining metadata, like location via GPS, with the image

    No, it doesn't. The idea of combining GPS data with photography is about as old as GPS, and as soon as digital cameras started coming out, people started using GPS and digital cameras, as well as putting the information on the web and place it on maps. Please, guys, look around a bit before hyping this sort of thing up.

    It's nice that Microsoft is doing this as well, but it really is nothing new.

  6. Re:slashdoted... by bonch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Site works fine for me.

    Tons of Apache-powered sites get Slashdotted every day. I honestly believe there is virtually zero difference in performance between Server 2003 and Apache--it's all about the admins who set them up.