Today we’re unveiling a major new project in Bing. Technically it’s an indexing, unification, and connection of the world’s geo-linked media. Informally, it’s the magic of: Seeing your photos automatically connected to others; Being able to simply create immersive experiences …
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Hello Read/Write World!
We’re Hiring!
Good news, everyone! The mission of Read/Write World to build a unified and open world of “media, maps, and meaning” has officially moved to the next level. We’ve opened three levels of developer positions for the growing team here inside …
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Upcoming Events
The not so good news is that due to persistent scheduling difficulties (i.e., vacations) we won’t be having RWW Camp #1 in mid-July as we’d originally hoped. Lesson: never try to schedule group events for July/August unless they involve music …
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Magicshop Frontdoor: crowdsourcing address corrections
A few months ago an experimental service to automatically find roads and other features in aerial imagery was launched. Today we’re adding to that a service to help improve local search results. The frontdoor app allows anyone on the web …
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ARE 2011 Wrap
Blaise and Avi enjoyed a warm reception at the Augemented Reality Event in Santa Clara last week. There was a great sense of collaboration and enthusiasm among the various companies and individuals present, that the main goal right now for …
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For the FAQ…
As the ReadWriteWorld project moves closer to public release, we want to make sure we address the community’s questions fully. This is the first real chance we’ll have to interact with you, and we’re happy to receive your questions and …
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What is RML?
RML is a markup language for the real world. Like HTML, it is designed around common web standards and technologies, with additional provisions for describing the shape, location, and content of the world at large. Just as a webpage describes …
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Rights in the Read/Write World
A well-understood rights system is essential for any broadly based project, so here are the simple language statements about your rights as content owners and re-mixers, and Bing’s rights surrounding the content and services we provide. Your Media If you …
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360 Cities Joins the Read/Write World
We are very proud to announce that the incredible 360 Cities panoramas – the world’s largest and fastest-growing collection of immersive panoramic imagery — are going to be indexed by the Read/Write world, with many available for Creative Commons reuse, …
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Demo: Tag Explorer
This demo showcases one of the functionalities of the Location Matching API, providing the capability of suggesting a list of relevant photo tags for a given location (lat/lon) and scope (map level of detail). Tags are often used by photographers …
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