Search::Redefined - Silverlight and Yahoo! Japan
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I spend a lot of time and miles evangelizing Silverlight, and sometimes it can be painful to see the amazing things that are being done with it, but that I cannot share until they are ready to go.
One such has been what I have been working on is with Yahoo! Japan. Finally it can see the light of day. Yahoo! Japan are the biggest website in Japan, and with typical Japanese flair they want to redefine the entire search experience.
Well they've done it. I can't wait to see more sites innovating like this.
Anyway, take a look here: https://www.microsoft.com/japan/products/expression/creatorsEX/gallery_y.html
...and you'll see it in action. View the video at the bottom of the page.
The live site should be ready to go in a few weeks, but watch the video and see what they've been doing.
Makes the typical search experience of a text block followed by a list of flat HTML text seem boring now, doesn't it? :)
Ganbarre!
Comments
Anonymous
April 10, 2008
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April 10, 2008
As I say to all those here in NYC - the willing and unwilling alike - there's no baloney with Laurence Moroney! What a cool application of Silverlight! Can't go back to the farm now once I've seen Paris. I assume the search app defaults to text based if Silverlight isn't loaded? thanks, Duke of Con Dao