More Silverlight applications

It's always a great feeling to surf the web and see partners pull together great experiences with the technology we help to create. While I always get asked if Microsoft is using Silverlight (the answer is yes, we have over 200+ applications on our own Microsoft.com and MSN.com properties), it's a testament to the explosive growth and the technology itself when you start seeing it show up more frequently in your casual day to day web experiences.

We blogged about this on our team site, but in case you haven't seen it, Nasa has released some footage from the International Space Station and on the Mars Science Lab. These applications use Photosynth, and they demonstrates the power that can be achieved when trying to deliver high resolution images, while also providing the ability to quickly navigate and manipulate large amounts of image data.

The second is the Country Music Awards, as they too have used Deepzoom to manipulate over 850+ images from the Country Music Awards show this week that users have submitted.

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