Microsoft buys Seadragon?

January 28, 2006 By

There’s a rumor that Microsoft is buying Seadragon. I can’t comment, but I got a demo this week and was blown away. The details on the rumored acquistion are on Channel 9.

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  • http://www.greenjem.com/ Larry

    My God… it’s full of stars.

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

  • http://www.greenjem.com Larry

    My God… it’s full of stars.

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

  • anon

    JPEG2000 anyone? Every bit patented.

    Btw, why IE isn’t supporting JPEG2000?

  • anon

    JPEG2000 anyone? Every bit patented.

    Btw, why IE isn’t supporting JPEG2000?

  • anon

    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

  • anon

    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

  • http://blog.damnednice.com/ Slackmaster K

    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://blog.damnednice.com Slackmaster K

    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://charlz.wordpress.com/ charlz

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

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

  • http://charlz.wordpress.com/ charlz

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

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

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  • Christopher Coulter

    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.

  • Christopher Coulter

    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.

  • Geeesus

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

  • Geeesus

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

  • Christopher Coulter

    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.

  • Christopher Coulter

    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.

  • Jon

    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.

  • Jon

    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.

  • http://www.juegoszaping.com/ juegos

    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

  • http://www.juegoszaping.com/ juegos

    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