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Re: Microsoft Should Wash Hands Before Touching Photos

Josh — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:48:12 -0000

I agree Pete. A lot of the fear is from long time users that don't trust M$crosoft. It was a lot of the same fears when yahoo bought flickr. personally I not sure about the integration of microsoft live and yahoo service, email, business, groups, pipes. we will see.

Re: Microsoft Should Wash Hands Before Touching Photos

Pete Yodis — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:30:01 -0000

Wonder what industry it would affect the most? Scanning/reverse engineering?

I think we'll eventually see this coupled with Virtual Earth (similar to Google's Virtual Earth, but I would argue better). The virtual earth could begin to look very real and even more real as more people upload photos to the internet. As more pictures are taken and uploaded, photosynthe can use more data from the web to drive the data in Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth would be a system for making money via advertising as everyone would look to it for information (maybe web 3.0, 4.0,...??) I don't think they are looking to have really accurate scanning/reverse engineering apps come from photosynthe. I see no reason why they would kill Flickr. In fact if something like photosynthe could really take advantage of Flickr, then I would think Microsoft would try to improve and promote Flickr.

Re: Microsoft Should Wash Hands Before Touching Photos

Bob Sauber — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:46:35 -0000

As for me. I have no idea how MS could screw Flickr... In any case they will not be allowed to by Yahoo.

Re: Microsoft Should Wash Hands Before Touching Photos

Bruce Buck — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:40:19 -0000

Yes, muy interesante indeed (photosynth). Wonder what industry it would affect the most? Scanning/reverse engineering?

Re: Microsoft Should Wash Hands Before Touching Photos

Josh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:35:47 -0000

true Pete. Photosynth is an interesting project and I've talked about using it to get 3D data. There was a presentation on Ted.com I believe that showed them already pulling photos from Flickr to build the models, but you won't see anything about it on the Photosynth website...yet. Thanks for mentioning that.

Re: Microsoft Should Wash Hands Before Touching Photos

Pete Yodis — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:33:05 -0000

Josh,

Take a look at Photosynthe from Microsoft. Its a development project and you can watch a demonstration on You tube or somewhere else. This might explain why they would be interested in Flickr, and using the data on Flickr to drive the models created from Photosynthe.

Pete