{"id":9244,"date":"2012-08-29T16:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2012-08-29T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T21:02:33","slug":"beyond-cool-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9244","title":{"rendered":"Beyond cool demos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a colleague from Microsoft was bemoaning the fact that they can&#8217;t seem to get enough press around the cool history visualization project <a href=http:\/\/www.chronozoomproject.org\/#\/t55 target=1><i>ChronoZoom<\/i><\/a> that uses their zooming technology.  Apparently, when the project was demonstrated at Berkeley, one blogger&#8217;s response was &#8220;Saw a cool demo at Berkeley.  Google should do something with this&#8221; (Microsoft wasn&#8217;t even mentioned).<\/p>\n<p>I told my colleague that what <i>Prezi<\/i> and <i>Google Maps<\/i> both have is a compelling use:  People want to give presentations and to find places in the world.  <i>Prezi<\/i> and <i>Google Maps<\/i> each provide a nice way to do something people already know they want to do.<\/p>\n<p>As cool as <i>ChronoZoom<\/i> is (and it is very cool), if Microsoft wants to really push its zooming technology, it will need to bundle it with at least one driving application that speaks to some capability people already know they want.  Without that, the technology &#8212; as wonderful as it is &#8212; will never grow beyond the &#8220;cool demos&#8221; phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a colleague from Microsoft was bemoaning the fact that they can&#8217;t seem to get enough press around the cool history visualization project ChronoZoom that uses their zooming technology. Apparently, when the project was demonstrated at Berkeley, one blogger&#8217;s response was &#8220;Saw a cool demo at Berkeley. Google should do something with this&#8221; (Microsoft wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beyond cool demos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9246,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions\/9246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}