{"id":592,"date":"2004-11-18T19:54:39","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T19:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/WorldWideMediaExchange.aspx"},"modified":"2004-11-18T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T19:54:39","slug":"world-wide-media-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/world-wide-media-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"World-Wide Media Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just e-mailed this by a co-worker (thanks Paul!): <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.wwmx.org\/\">the World-Wide Media eXchange<\/span>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a Microsoft Research project gathering pictures from all over the world and arranging them into a map-driven interface.\u00a0 It\u2019s a really cool way to browse pictures as well as a neat way to find pictures of places you\u2019ve been or may be going.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what the site has to say about itself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX) is a centralized index of digital photos, where photos are\u00a0tagged by the geographic location where they were shot.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an experimental research project run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080820025405\/http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/Vision\/InteractiveVisualMediaGroup\/\">Interactive Visual Media Group<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project explores\u00a0possibilities with digital\u00a0photographs and geographic location.\u00a0 The location where a photo was taken\u00a0provides clues about its semantic\u00a0context and offers\u00a0an intuitive\u00a0way\u00a0to\u00a0index it, even\u00a0in a very large collection.\u00a0\u00a0The combination is powerful, but\u00a0<i>still<\/i> not\u00a0supported well by\u00a0either the photo-software or camera-hardware industries.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;re trying\u00a0to\u00a0establish a\u00a0strong\u00a0case\u00a0for these features, and you can help us &#8212; try the downloads, and tell us about your experience:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/image0011234.jpg\" alt=\"wwmx(a)microsoft.com\" width=\"135\" height=\"17\" align=\"absBottom\" border=\"0\" \/>.\u00a0 Your feedback can make a difference!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s free and cool, check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just e-mailed this by a co-worker (thanks Paul!): the World-Wide Media eXchange.\u00a0 It\u2019s a Microsoft Research project gathering pictures from all over the world and arranging them into a map-driven interface.\u00a0 It\u2019s a really cool way to browse pictures as well as a neat way to find pictures of places you\u2019ve been or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlephotography","category-web","tag-idlephotography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}