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26 Jul 09

the technology doesn't force you to think about your audience.
She may ignore you, but she knows. But what does it mean that we are unable to see - and thus able to ignore - our audience online?
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- The processes of recording and sharing help make things "real" by expanding their significance in our lives. These are tools to aid us in building memories. We forget most moments in our lives, but when we record and share, we take the steps to solidify these memories.

30 Apr 09

Photosynth Comes of Age in CNN’s Inauguration Coverage

It should be noted that it also requires a Silverlight download – much like the streaming of Obama’s address on the official inauguration website. Between the two, it’s likely that Microsoft got Silverlight installed on thousands if not millions of more machines today - personally the download link didn’t even work for 20-30 minutes.

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28 Apr 09

Photosynth Viewer

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17 Apr 09

Infinite Photograph -- As Seen On Earth -- The Green Guide

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earth montage Infinite photograph photosynth

13 Apr 09

The Smart Set: Quiet Ripples - April 3, 2009

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22 Mar 09

Microsoft's Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

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he genius of Photosynth is that it takes advantage of the psychosis of digital photography. The software collects similar pictures that, by themselves, aren't very interesting and builds an entirely new kind of image, what you might call a social photograp

15 Mar 09

Qik | Share Live Video From Your Mobile Phone

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19 Feb 09

A Place Called Hope: Television: The New Yorker

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Obama raising his hand to take the oath of office—to the network, whose gadgets would then create a huge composite, three-dimensional-seeming photograph.
As new as the ability to accomplish such a thing may be, it came across as a tired gimmick
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- I should have put the remote down and got myself to Washington and stood in the crowd, freezing and cheering, maybe even, for the first time, waving a flag. January 20th might have been the greatest day in my lifetime. By watching it on TV, I’d missed it

01 Feb 09

Microsoft's Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

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hat's more, Photosynth lets you pan and zoom through the resulting scene as if you're a director scouting out locations
The demo seemed magical, conjuring a whole new way of collecting the thousands of photos that each of us now produce during our lifetimes: Imagine being able to review your Grand Canyon vacation not as a static slide show but as a tour of the 3-D environment produced by your and everyone else's pictures. "This takes data from the entire collective memory of what the earth looks like," Aguera y Arcas told the crowd. "All of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent—greater than the sum of their parts."
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- hese contributions produced dozens of 3-D scenes—called "synths"—at
- Because we're always carrying cameras, we're moved to document every moment of our lives—sometimes to the exclusion of actually experiencing that moment.
- The scene is puzzling: If the guy next to you is taking a picture—one that you can be reasonably sure will end up on a photo-sharing site somewhere—why do you need one, too?
- everyone's got their cell phones and cameras in front of their faces.
- The genius of Photosynth is that it takes advantage of the psychosis of digital photography. The software collects similar pictures that, by themselves, aren't very interesting and builds an entirely new kind of image, what you might call a social photograph.
- There are now nearly 700 pictures in the synth, and together they give you an incredibly detailed picture of what took place that morning. It's not just one person's view—you can see the event as people in every part of the crowd saw i
- Looking at the synth is even better than having been there live—this way you see everything.
- I contacted a half-dozen photo analysts, and none could say definitively which photo was real and which was doctored.
- Of course, people have been questioning the authenticity of certain photographs ever since photography began.
- decline of photography as a journalistic pursuit—in the Photoshop age, you could dismiss any photo as false, which meant no photo would stand as proof that something actually occurred.
- But if we typically disbelieve the evidence of a photograph, then when the Chinese government says there's no massacre, what are you going to hold up against that
- rue, any single photo can be doctored—but in the future, Meyer believes, we'll get at the truth of what happened at any particular event not by looking at one photo, but by looking at the amalgam of hundreds
- a composite picture of the scene.
- something resembling the truth

Microsoft's Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

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photosynth 451

What's more, Photosynth lets you pan and zoom through the resulting scene as if you're a director scouting out locations
conjuring a whole new way of collecting the thousands of photos that each of us now produce during our lifetimes: Imagine being able to review your Grand Canyon vacation not as a static slide show but as a tour of the 3-D environment produced by your and everyone else's pictures.
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- This takes data from the entire collective memory of what the earth looks like," Aguera y Arcas told the crowd. "All of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent—greater than the sum of their parts."
- hese contributions produced dozens of 3-D scenes—called "synths"
- They're absolutely mesmerizing.
- There is something vaguely embarrassing—even narcissistic—about our new era of mass photography. Because we're always carrying cameras, we're moved to document every moment of our lives—sometimes to the exclusion of actually experiencing that moment. Take a look at this picture of Barack and Michelle Obama at one of the inaugural balls.