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Microsoft aquires Seadragon technology
Have you ever sat and waited (and waited) while your Google Maps reloads the image as you scroll in? A new technology called Seadragon might change all that -- at least for Microsoft products. Seadragon is a neat little technology where users run a streaming client that allows them to view images of much larger images, constantly scaling and scrolling on demand. Google Maps uses Javascript to load progressively larger resolution tiles of images. Seadragon, on the other hand, uses a client to constantly focus and defocus a JPG image on demand, without transmitting the whole image. As the Seadragon demo shows, the client software focuses the image for an effect similar to what you might experience while looking through an adjusting microscope.(continue at source)