Comments on: Quick App: Microsoft Labs Seadragon Mobile for iPhone

By: Pinny

Pinny — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:27:54 +0000

Wow this thing is cool.

By: striatic

striatic — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:54:17 +0000

i don't really see any profound similarities between iEnvision [nice self-promo] and seadragon.

seadragon is all about advanced zooming and scaling through visual information, whereas iEnvision is a simple slideshow app.

By: Alan Oppenheimer

Alan Oppenheimer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:28:15 +0000

You might want to compare the home screen on this app to the one in our iEnvision app (http://we-envision.com), which has been shipping since day 1. This app of course has a somewhat different focus from ours, but there are also a large number of similarities.

By: Mashono

Mashono — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:59:30 +0000

Seadragon is amazing on the iPhone the way it loads maps is much quicker and flows smoother, I can’t wait for Office and Live Messenger!

By: striatic

striatic — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:51:59 +0000

this is a serious app.

i wish google maps loaded zoomed information as quickly as this, the "flow" in and out of visual information is much more organic on seadragon.

since we're a mac only household, we haven't been able to run photosynth in our home and am looking forward to Ben Vanik's bugfix!

on a largely unrelated note to mister Vanik.. please ask people higher up than you at microsoft to make an offer for flickr. such an acquisition would really benefit seadragon, and it'd really benefit flickr.

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:11:52 +0000

For the record, there are MS apps that are very good. The version of Office for the Mac is excellent and my company has worked with some .NET tools to support an SOA project with excellent success and scalability that in truth surprised us. IMHO, MS fails where they have a lot of legacy code and feel that they need to support everything they’ve ever done. Hopefully, they will build more for the iPhone that is equally as good.

By: Ben Vanik

Ben Vanik — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:50:26 +0000

(disclaimer – I wrote the app

Browse Photosynth broke a day or two after we submitted the app (API changes on the server). I’ve got an update ready to submit to Apple that fixes it – hopefully it’ll go up in the next week or so. It’s a killer feature, so watch for it!

The maps used are from Virtual Earth (which powers Live maps as well) – hopefully they’ll be refreshing them sometime in the future.

By: Dalekkiller

Dalekkiller — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:32:41 +0000

Got this app yesterday and its power is amazing with some great astronomy pics and the equivalent of a (slightly out of date) Google earth. The only downside is the browse bit is broken but searching comes up with some great stuff. I can’t wait to start uploading my own stuff.