DeepZoom-Tastic

I have been blogging since MIX last year about DeepZoom as a killer feature inside of Silverlight 2.

• MIX08: A Developers Perspective... IT'S A WRAP!
• Build A 10,000 x 10,000 Mosaic of Images with DeepZoom
• Deep Zoom Photographs
• Web On The Piste
• Right Click
• Louis Vuitton Pacific Series 2009 Auckland New Zealand – The Silverlight Story

After a user group tour I saw a number of commercial websites start to experiment and deploy Silverlight 2 DeepZoom projects. I even wrote a simple DeepZoom magazine viewer for the New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics Team.

The team at ACP Media have released a new car search that leverages DeepZoom - https://www.autotrader.co.nz/New/Search they have a fall back to an AJAX experience as well for those users who don’t have Silverlight installed.

Grant Archibald who worked on the ACP new car project is up at MIX09 in Las Vegas this week and has been very active on his blog regarding his recent Silverlight development projects. He even won a pass to MIX for his Three Little Pigs – Silverlight E-Book.

Another nice DeepZoom that I have seen recently is Pretty-In-Ink on MSN. This one has a similar feel to the touch interface that I produced for the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in Jan.

The Pretty In Ink site loads an arbitrary collection of images, allows for filtering them based on various criteria (lots of LINQ), interaction in a Surface-like ScatterView style, and inspection of the details of an image with Deep Zoom.

You can join a live webcast to learn more about how it was built. The webcast is being conducted by Sumeet Wilankar, Creative Director @ Idealake, at 9:30pm tonight (18th March NZ time).

It would also be remiss of me not to call out the great work of the Aussie DPE, Showcasing the Sydney Mardi Gras using DeepZoom on the homepage of the Sydney Morning Herald.

This is the first example I have seen when the photo tiles are stored on Windows Azure Storage Services.

• Michael Kordahi - SMH Mardi Gras Photo coverage in Silverlight Deep Zoom
• Greg Willis - Software + Services meets Sydney Mardi Gras

(originally prototyped by the always yellow Chris Auld). 

Michael also wrote:

I will share the source (on codeplex) when it’s ready.

I very much look forward to seeing where DeepZoom is going with MIX09 kicking off tomorrow morning in Las Vegas.

Watch the keynote live at https://2009.visitmix.com from 5AM Thursday 19th March, tomorrow morning.