Microsoft Zoom.it (Bitly for Hi-res images)

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Post by matthewphiong » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 8:17 PM UTC

Microsoft Zoom.it (Bitly for Hi-res images)
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Post by perplexes » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 8:50 PM UTC

This is great! It reminds me of Zoomworld, described by Jef Raskin in his book The Humane Interface, and even the Demo picture on the front page demonstrates some of those ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface http://www.amazon.com/Humane-Interface-Directions-Designing-...

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Post by mattmiller » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 8:53 PM UTC

Thats pretty cool. First one to come up with a site that shows a bunch of examples wins a bunch of easy traffic.

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Post by rokhayakebe » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 9:21 PM UTC

I don't see any embed link. That would be great.

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Post by umsm » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 9:33 PM UTC

This is pretty cool. I designed something similar for my previous employer that took a very large image of a map and scaled it and sliced it into squares. The resulting images were then used as a custom map with the Google Maps API.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2...

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Post by aneesh » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 9:35 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #4

I don't see any embed link. That would be great.

http://zoom.it/pages/api/

"You get the Zoom.it short URL, an embeddable viewer, as well as the underlying DZI and surrounding metadata."

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Post by _ouxp » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 9:39 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #4

I don't see any embed link. That would be great.

They display an embed link under the image on the short-url page, if you create one, but not for the images on the home page slideshow/demo. I agree, it's confusing and masks the functionality.

E.G. NASA's Visible Earth Night Lights: http://zoom.it/333

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Post by joshu » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 9:42 PM UTC

I wish you could annotate in there.

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Post by geuis » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 9:44 PM UTC

This is very interesting from a technical perspective. Its all being done with js and xhr requests. Its powered by Seadragon( http://seadragon.com/developer/ ) and apparently Zoom.it is just a new rename.

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Post by niallsmart » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 10:04 PM UTC

Independent of the product's merits; it's fascinating to see a large corporation experiment with the concept of "MVP".