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We’d like to share a little news about Live Labs with you. We’ve recently made some changes to our organization, and a number of teams from within the lab will be joining product groups around the company. For instance, the social streams team will be joining MSN . Some of our engineers will be helping out with the next generation of Windows Mobile. And others are off to Live Search and...

At Live Labs, research is an important part of what we do. Recently researchers Paul Bennett, Max Chickering and Anton Mityagin released some new data about a game project they did last year. To users, Picture This was a matching game. But to the researchers, it was providing valuable data about search and machine learning. They’ve now released the data in an anonymized form, so that other researchers...

Infinite Canvas , a new way of looking at comics on the web developed by Live Labs' own Ian Gilman has started getting some attention lately. Infinite Canvas is a JavaScript application that frees visual storytelling from the usual comic format of squares on a page. It started to take off when Neil Gaiman (whom Ian describes as “one of the gods of the sci-fi/fantasy world”) tweeted about...

We are now making most of the source code for the Web Sandbox project available under the Open Source Apache License 2.0.

They say you know you've made it when you get skewered on the Colbert Report. Well, our congratulations to Photosynth--you've made it. (video after the break).

Want to see giga-pixel images on your iPhone? Now you can--with Seadragon Mobile. Seadragon Mobile brings the same smooth image browsing you get on the PC to the mobile platform. Get super-close in on a map or photo, with just a few pinches or taps of your finger. Browse an entire collection of photos from a single screen. You can browse Deep Zoom Images that you can create from your own pictures or...

Many of the projects we try at Live Labs are designed to last just long enough for us to confirm or disprove our assumptions—interactive experimentation helps us prove things that are hard to research any other way. Political Streams was one of those. The American election season provided a great opportunity for us to try it out, since people’s interest in political news and blogs was stronger...

People have always had a need to make sense of the world around them. We want to identify, classify and clarify things. Lately that need has become even greater, since we’re being bombarded with information wherever we look. Now there’s a new tool to help you organize all that information: Thumbtack . Thumbtack is an easy way to save links, photos, and anything else you find on the Web...

Seadragon Ajax brings Deep Zoom technology right to your own web page or blog, even if you're not a software developer. You may already be familiar with Deep Zoom technology--it's used in Photosynth and in Silverlight . It enables you to smoothly zoom into extreme close-ups of your images, regardless of the size of the screen or bandwidth of the network you're on. Seadragon Ajax makes it easy for you...