My Digital Life

Today MS have released Silverlight 2.0 out of beta.  Great news for me as I can now get it rolled out at work and get people trying out things like PhotoSynth and DeepZoom (we can’t really deploy betas!).  I’m really looking forward to seeing how people might use them. 

The installation is here and is available for PC and Mac and supports IE, Firefox and Google Chrome. 

An interesting note from the release material is that it seems like Apple are blocking a release for iPhone… I guess it gets in the way of their own plans?  What with Silverlight on its way to Windows Mobile and Nokia, and WM Mesh clients on their way too, I’m going to feel a little left out with my iPhone.

Given MS’s current marketing campaign if I were them I’d be tempted to build iPhone compatible clients anyway.  Then I’d show them working as much as possible and let Apple publicly deny them to users…

Although Photosynth has been out for a while, I’d not rally had a chance to play with it much until the weekend.  After giving my car a quick wash I thought I’d take a few pictures and feed them into a synth and see how it came out…

(You’ll need a PC, Silverlight and PhotoSynth installed to see the embedded Synth - sorry Mac guys)

Here’s a link to the full thing: Linky

I think it worked out pretty well considering I didn’t take that many pictures.  If I do it again I’ll take more pics around the interior to try and allow you to move in close.

Photosynth is definitely a cool bit of technology and could be used in loads of different ways.  It’d be a pretty unique way of showing off my car if I was selling it online for example.  In fact if I were a car dealership I might experiment with using it on a few cars.

Anyways…. I think it’s great.  Give it a go!

I figure it would save me a lot of time burning music to CD’s. 

In fact while I think of it… I’d like to be able to set all of the options on my car Radio from my laptop while I’m at work.  Maybe all the other car settings as well.  A silverlight app for that would be nice. 

And while I’m doing that maybe I could setup the sat-nav?  Not my contacts though, I enter those on my phone, the car can grab those from the mesh on its own.

Oh, and it would be quite cool if my cameras were meshified.  I’d like all the pictures I take to be meshed, and then I’d like to be able to tag the ones I want to put on Flickr.  It’d be easier to do than from my PDA though, the little buttons on the camera are a bit awkward.