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Microsoft Entity Extraction - What is it?

Aug 27

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Projects : Entity Extraction

Using machine learning to identify meaningful text in documents, we can turn the unstructured web into a rich set of tagged documents.

Restaurant reviews… Business addresses… People’s Names… Phone numbers… Product descriptions…

The web is overflowing with descriptive information, but most content is not yet linked with outside applications. Highlight a restaurant address on any website, get a popup map. Or a book title in a blog post for reviews and prices from around the web. Add names and phone numbers from any email or webpage to your contacts with one click.  It’s all coming, and Entity Extraction is the enabling technology. 

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Microsoft Web Sandbox - What is it?

Aug 27

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Websandbox

Web Sandbox

Modern Web pages are made up of
pieces that may be served from different locations—maps, visit
counters, affiliate programs that run scripts on your page, gadgets
built by outside developers, and more. But what happens when items
you’re including hamper the experience, either on purpose or
by mistake?  IFrames isolate your site’s personal
information without protecting users or their machines, which
remain vulnerable in face of increasingly sophisticated exploits.

The Web Sandbox
addresses this problem through virtualization. We provide an
opportunity to test the Sandbox and find out whether it prevents
the attacks you’re concerned about.  It’s designed to
improve the security, isolation and quality of service for your site
and your users. The goal is to get to an open and interoperable
standard in this space, creating a robust and long term solution. 

You can help by trying to hack the code to find scenarios or exploits
we haven’t thought of yet. The more you try to break it, the
stronger it will get. Our goal is to involve the community and
release a set of open source components that can be improved upon as
time goes by.  Try it now.

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Microsoft SEADRAGON - What is it?

Aug 27

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The aim of Seadragon is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays all the way down to cell phones, so that graphics and photos are smoothly browsed,  regardless of the amount of data or the bandwidth of the network.

Consider the following four “promises” of Seadragon:

  1. Speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects.
  2. Performance depends only on the ratio of bandwidth to pixels on the screen.
  3. Transitions are smooth as butter.
  4. Scaling is near perfect and rapid for screens of any resolution.

 

How can you use Seadragon?

You can get Seadragon Deep Zoom functionality by using Photosynth, which not only allows you to get super-close-ups of your pictures but also stitches them together into a 3-D space.  You can use Seadragon Ajax and embed a simple viewer into your own web sites or blog posts.  Or, you can also download the Deep Zoom Composer to embed a viewer into your own web site or blog post.

For Developers

Developers can leverage Deep Zoom functionality by using the Silverlight platform. They can also take advantage of the Seadragon Ajax Library to customize viewers and controls.

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