Oooooh! I’ve found a demo that the IT pro’s will love, and the developers will have a great time creating more images. I’m at our team offsite. It’s a great opportunity to find out what other parts of the Evangelism team is doing, find out our challenges (getting together often enough is one of them), and see some of the great tools in action.
I’ve been aware of SeaDragon technology for some time, and I’ve blogged about how amazing Photosynth is in action – it blows people away if they haven’t seen it before.
Well the site i’ve seen today is the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia site (have a look at the plectrum selection at the bottom left of the screen).
But what makes this so amazing is the fact that you can make your own zoom images up fairly simply. If you haven’t read the Expression team blog, then you won’t have heard about Deep Zoom Compser It allows you to use the multi scale image control to put your photos up into a deep zoom environment, so with a camera and a bit of html knowledge you can build your own sites like Hard Rock.
You can also use the Photo Zoom site that MsLabs have created to make your own sites up too. Or put the Photozoom application onto your Facebook profile and amaze your Facebook friends with your compositions.
One thing though which frustrates me. apparently there are Easter Eggs in the Hard Rock site – but I can’t find any of them as they move around the site. If you find anything really cool in there that looks like a hidden Easter Egg, can you tell me how to get there please – so my demos on this can look extra cool…
