Joining Microsoft
I am thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the Seadragon team at Microsoft Live Labs as a research intern. Ever since I first watched Blaise Agüera y Arcas present Seadragon & Photosynth at TED, I knew the Seadragon team was at the cutting edge of changing the way we will interact with vast amounts of visual information in the future.
Getting the chance to be a part of this group of extremely visionary & talented people is a feeling I cannot describe. I am looking forward to finally meet some of the people I’ve had contact with over the last months in person, among them Ian, Aseem, Ben, Kevin, Lutz, James, Bill, Jay, and all those I haven’t got to know so far.
They are the brilliant minds behind products & projects such as Silverlight Deep Zoom, Seadragon AJAX, Seadragon Mobile, Seadragon.com, Photosynth, WMP HD Photo JPEG XR, Infinite Canvas, Gimme Shiny! and PSP Player.
Personally I see working at Microsoft as a great opportunity to work on all the things I’m passionate about and potentially reach millions of people around the world.
Stay tuned as I’ll share my stories about settling down in the Seattle area and hopefully a bit about the stuff I’ll be working on!
Yours,
Daniel
P.S. OpenZoom
As of next week active development of the OpenZoom SDK on my part will be put on hold for the duration of my internship. I consider the features and components already included (0.4.2.1 release) fairly stable and as many people have shown it’s very well suited to be used in real-world projects. Apart from that, I’ll still try my best to answer questions and help out on the OpenZoom community whenever possible.
I’d like to point that I made sure that the status of the OpenZoom project itself is not in any way affected by this announcement. It’s still open source and free. Actually, I’d like to encourage other people to fork it and continue where I left off.
09.09.2009
19:45
Congratulations, Daniel. This is as a direct result of all the hard, inspiring work you’ve done developing OpenZoom, plus all the equally important time you’ve spent enthusiastically supporting it.
As the film says, “If you build it, they will come.”
All the best,
Nigel.
09.09.2009
20:18
Congratulations! So this was the big announcement you were talking about.
Thank you for all your time and effort! Also thanks for making a clear statement about the near future of openzoom. I hope you can work on it again at some time in the future.
You are indeed right with one thing: The current version is quite stable and can be used in production. I am glad to announce that today a project of mine went live at http://www.just.burgeff.de/ – I hope you like it!
All the best wishes,
Claudius
09.09.2009
21:21
Congratulations, Daniel! Microsoft wins big with this move. I’m looking forward to the fruits of this collaboration.
Good Luck!
09.09.2009
21:52
Look forward to meeting with you for the first time! Also, I’m excited that I’m the 4th person in your list of exciting people to meet!
09.09.2009
22:27
Félicitations Daniel.
You will have a blast in this place where your talent can thrive. Great news!
Le bonjour de Paris,
jc
10.09.2009
3:37
We’re looking forward to you joining our little band of crazy developers. Hopefully it will be a fun and enlightening ride for all of us.
Bill Crow
Seadragon Group Manager
Microsoft Live Labs
10.09.2009
10:10
Congratulations Daniel,
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Great news,
still following the right path i think !
Have fun there in Seattle,
i hope you will keep up the work on the flash platform too !
Hello from Paris again.
Fred
10.09.2009
13:24
Hi Daniel,
I have been talking to people in my company, and we are going to fork openzoom, to submit our current changes. We are going to use OpenZoom for at least one more project, so there will probably be more changes to come.
The repository is here http://github.com/ccoenen/openzoom-sdk/
Best wishes,
Claudius
10.09.2009
15:45
Helo daniel,
Have fun at microsoft! But: beware of the balmer guy, I saw some vids on youtubes and I have to say that he looks rly dangerous!!
PS: looking forward to our ps3 session next tuesday
12.09.2009
5:18
Very much looking forward to working with you, Daniel! Have a safe trip. =)
14.09.2009
14:11
Congratulation Daniel !
18.09.2009
21:40
Congrats, Daniel!
06.10.2009
9:14
This is great news.congratulations!!!!!
07.10.2009
7:33
great news, good luck at ms
07.11.2009
19:56
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02.12.2009
10:49
Hi, Daniel,
How’s your internship so far?