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Bing Entertainment Brings Full Music Streams To Search, Plus Gam Bing’s iPhone app isn’t the only thing getting an upgrade today at Microsoft’s search engine. Bing is also starting to roll out close to 100 new features to its main search engine on the Web. The biggest change is a new major search category under Bing Entertainment, which will include better ways to search for music, movies, TV shows, and games. “We did travel, health, shopping and local last year,” explains senior VP Yusuf Mehdi. “Now the Web has unlocked all of this entertainment, but for many people they are spending too much time looking for what they want to do instead of enjoying it. Roughly 10 percent of all searches are entertainment related, according to Mehdi. One of the most noticeable changes will come in music. When you search for an artist or a song, a special Answer Box (informally known as the Bing Box) will appear at the top of the search results page. Movie searches will create an Answer Box with photo stills, a synopsis, local show times, and links to trailers.
The future of content navigation Let’s forget business models and monetization — just for a brief moment. Instead, we’ll focus on one key issue: the interface, the way you access, browse, spot, save relevant information. The interface is pivotal. A good one will allow you to rope in your readers / viewers, and make them loyal to your brand, your contents. Pouring money and resources into an editorial effort, striving to get the best out of your team, buying the best contributions, pictures, multimedia features available… All of this is pointless without an effective interface. With this in mind, let’s see what’s lies ahead of us in the interface world. Last week, I spent a couple of days at Microsoft’s Redmond campus, near Seattle. Of my many meetings, a notable one entailed a visit to the Microsoft Live Labs. The most spectacular integration of Photosynth and Seadragon can be seen on the latest version of Microsoft’s Bing Maps (if you connect from the US). Seadragon is based on a simple concept: infinite zooming.
Tiltshiftmaker turns photos into miniature scenes | Webware - CN Tilt-shift photography is a technique that requires a special lens to change both the perspective and focal field of an image. A similar effect can be created in PhotoShop and other high-end image editing programs, but it's a lengthy effort that casual photographers will probably find daunting. Web-based photo editor Tiltshiftmaker has automated most of this process, letting you achieve a similar effect right in your browser. To do it yourself you can either upload a photo from your computer, or drop in the URL of one hosted online. The test shot I used of the street outside CNET's office turned out great (see it below), and only took a few seconds to put together. I'd love to see this added in as an option in existing Web photo editing tools like Fotoflexer and Picnik. (via DownloadSquad)
Microsoft Cancels Its "Courier" Tablet 11 Ways to Visualize Changes Over Time – A Guide | FlowingData Deal with data? No doubt you've come across the time-based variety. The visualization you use to explore and display that data changes depending on what you're after and data types. This is a guide to help you figure out what type of visualization to use to see that stuff. Let's start with the basics: the line graph. An example: Comparing Roger Clemens to Hall of Fame Pitchers Scatterplots work well if you have a lot of data points. An example: Oxygen Concentration Over Time Bar charts work best for time series when you're dealing with distinct points in time (as opposed to more continuous data). An example: Who’s Going to Win Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest? Use this the same way you would a bar chart when you have multiple categories (hence the stacking). An example: Bad Housing Loans in Forclosure The stacked area is the stacked bar's more versatile sibling. An example: Past 25 Years of Consumer Spending An example: Income per Person and GDP by Gapminder
visualthinkmap inspiration (100+ Data Visualisation Tools and Ap Collaborate on Microsoft's Docs.com Within Facebook Groups Microsoft's Docs.com announced today that it now supports sharing documents within Facebook Groups. Microsoft's Fuse labs brought Docs.com to Facebook back in April, but the service hasn't necessarily taken off, in part because sharing documents with a specific group was unwieldy, as you had to add people manually. Now Docs.com promises integration into Facebook Groups, something that wasn't previously possible for third-party apps. Users can share documents within a Group for others to view or edit. Updates to Docs.com will post a story to the Group's Wall as well as to the newsfeeds of its members. And you can leave comments about documents on the Group Wall or within the document itself. You don't need to have Microsoft Office installed to use Docs.com, but the system only supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF file uploads. I had a few problems test-driving the integration this morning.
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches "Dito from scratch" du 15 février au 6 mars 2010 | Le Lieu du De Exposition 15 Février 2010 / 6 Mars 2010 Le Lieu du Design - 74, rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine - 75012 Paris Tous publics Pour sa seconde exposition, le Lieu du Design a souhaité inviter Dito, collectif de jeunes designers, à présenter pour la première fois son travail. Prenant le contre-pied d’une époque où les démarches sont souvent personnelles, Dito a l’ambition d’imaginer une méthode de travail collégiale et ouverte dans laquelle le dialogue, l’échange et le partage sont privilégiés comme autant de forces pour le design contemporain. Envisageant le design comme un moyen plus qu’une fin, la vocation de Dito est de créer un langage commun, collectif et démocratique qui leur permet d’inventer un ensemble d’objets, novateurs dans leur forme comme dans le processus collectif qui les a fait naître. A partir d’une scénographie spécialement pensée pour le Lieu du Design, "Dito from scratch" réunit des maquettes, dessins et photographies mises en scène dans des environnements domestiques.
End Of An Era: Windows Live Messenger To Be Retired, Users Transitioned To Skype Confirming earlier reports, Microsoft officially announced today it would be retiring its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging service in favor of Skype. In a post on the Skype blog, Tony Bates, Microsoft President, Skype Division, explained that Windows Live Messenger would be retired for all users in the first quarter of 2013, with the only exception being mainland China. Windows Live Messenger will live on in China, with no announced termination date for the service there. Microsoft notes that the move to migrate users from Windows Live Messenger to Skype began with the release of Skype 6.0 for Mac and Windows a fews weeks ago. In that version, users could begin to sign into Skype using a Microsoft account. After doing so, Messenger contacts are brought over as well. Today’s blog post walks users through the switchover process, and promises some “special offers later this year” for Messenger users making the switch.