# SeaDragon In Silverlight: The Coolest Bit From Mix Keynote One - Host: [techcrunch.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/techcrunch.com/) - Saved: March 5, 2008 (2008-03-05T22:49:25Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a557639235a5/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a557639235a5.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia Site with Deep Zoom Announced in the first Microsoft Mix keynote this morning was advanced zooming capabilities in Silverlight 2. The functionality comes from SeaDragon, a product first shown by Microsoft at TED last year. The demonstration featured the Hard Rock Memorabilia site. It started with what looked like some basic memorabilia shots, then zoomed out to a button on a suit. The seamless image was 2 billion pixels created from many separate images with Silverlight natively providing the stitching. The crux of the functionality is to provide the ability to zoom in and out quickly without the need to download an entire picture; Silverlight only loads whats required as the user goes to that part of the overall image, saving on bandwidth and in theory providing a quicker and more pleasurable end user experience. The video above is an interview the Mix crew did with the Hard Rock team that includes a demonstration of the site in action. To see it live, install Silverlight 2 then visit the Hard Rock Memorabilia site here. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Bloglines Suffers Major Outage](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/620eaad65f70/) (techcrunch.com, February 25, 2008) - [March 6th Date Set for Apples iPhone Software Roadmap Event](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a291d5f3fd11/) (techcrunch.com, February 27, 2008) - [Kevin Rose Cant Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Cant Wait To Speak With a Human](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3269d5c30998/) (techcrunch.com, March 2, 2008) - [Google Analytics Data Sharing: Why Not Go All The Way?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/01be2e9e949b/) (techcrunch.com, March 5, 2008) - [WeGames 19 Year Old Founder Raises $3 million Financing](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/988e8b1a8311/) (techcrunch.com, March 12, 2008) ## Saved the same week - [Chinese official on SMS voting: txtng votes ripe 4 abuse](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/384ca64789fe/) (arstechnica.com, March 5, 2008) - [Mix08 Day 1](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ce534fcdb98b/) (whereslou.com, March 5, 2008) - [Ex-Yahoo Neil Budde lands at the Los Angeles Times](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4d6e70ceb96c/) (gawker.com, March 5, 2008) - [EU To Clear Google-DoubleClick on Tuesday, Google Into Display](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3853823a4b0d/) (businessinsider.com, March 5, 2008) - [Bush's HHH](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/515ccc977a96/) (dailykos.com, March 5, 2008) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/seadragon-in-silverlight-the-coolest-bit-from-mix-keynote-one/