Microsoft's Data Collection Technology PivotViewer Now Available For Download
Pivot and Silverlight technologies are the core of the PivotViewer. Developers and designers can now use Silverlight PivotViewer to build collections and embed them on their websites. Using the Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight 4, you can zoom into high resolution content and pan around to find what you’re looking for.
PivotViewer’s collections combine large groups of similar data that connects a series of isolated pages. Live Labs will continue the Pivot experiment to continue to develop new visualizations for large collections of information.
A number of sites are already using the technology for rich media data visualizations, including Hitched, a wedding planning site in the UK (see screeshot below).
Pivot isn’t the first compelling technology to come out of Microsoft’s Live Labs. Photosynth, a graduate of Live Labs, is an impressive photo viewing project that stiches together images to create pseudo-3D worlds.