A new way of viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery
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Recently Microsoft Live Labs has launched a free web based service called Zoom.it. It is a great service for viewing and sharing high-resolution imagery. It is very simple to use.
As an input, It takes the URL of any hosted image on the website and convert that image to the Deep Zoom format. Deep Zoom is the fastest, smoothest, zooming technology on the Web, bringing the highest resolution images (no matter how large like 6874×4888 or so) with the lowest load times to users. It gives new experience to explore the image smoothly and efficiently without compromising with image quality.
And as an output this service provides a short URL of hosted version of that image (as a spate image page) which you can share on any social networking website like Twitter & also provide a small JavaScript code which you embed into any web page.
For Developers who want to use this service in their real time application and want to customize it as per their needs, Zoom.it can be accessed through a web API which offers both RESTful and non-RESTful behavior. It supports both XML and JSON (as well as JSONP) to make it easy to use across a variety of platforms.
To know more about this serice visit their website http://zoom.it/
