Microsoft buys Seadragon?

My God... it's full of stars.

Very cool tech. Sparkle + Seadragon = awesome photo galleries.

JPEG2000 anyone? Every bit patented.

Btw, why IE isn't supporting JPEG2000?

Oh, I just saw the demo and it mentions that's it's a JPEG2000 client. Heh. Now I don't get it, there are tens of JPEG2000 codecs out there already (which provide the smooth Level Of Details experience that is so different to normal JPEG).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000

Of course you do realize "can't comment" means "it's in the works"... Otherwise you would have said something like "We're not buying SeaDragon".

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=105
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2481

Acquisition seems to be part of the Live Labs' effort.

Can't comment? Geeesus, you think people are stupid? -- you spread the rumors all over the blogs, Channel 9 hype up, and then point back link when the rumnors take root and say can't comment. How you get away with this stuff is amazing.

Actually Chris, I just think you are stupid. ;)

Well, you are free to feel that way, free county...but ironically as it would be, most of my 'fan mail' comes from Microsoft itself. Wouldn't waste time in pointless blog comments, were it not for the rah rah'ing from the Mini-Microsoft wing.

Wow! That is an awesome technology. Go check out the demos at seadragon.net. I can definitely see why Microsoft is so keen on it. I can immediately see it being put to use with Virtual Earth, for one.

Oh, I just saw the demo and it mentions that’s it’s a JPEG2000 client. Heh. Now I don’t get it, there are tens of JPEG2000 codecs out there already (which provide the smooth Level Of Details experience that is so different to normal JPEG).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000