Webcast: Video Intro and Interview to the New MS Experimental Search Front-End, Tafti

Catherine Heller sat down with Marc Mercuri, Architect on the platform incubation team, to discuss one of Marc’s recent incubation projects, Tafiti, and how it evolved into a Windows Live Quick Application.

Tafiti

is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft that uses Silverlight and Live Search to provide a rich Web experience and specialization of search.

Windows Live Quick Applications are customizable out-of-the box solutions for specific Web scenarios. Each Quick App is built on Windows Live services and is offered as a source code download. The Tafiti Quick App illustrates search visualization.

At around 00:26:44, Marc announces a contest! Do you have an interesting specialized search experience in mind? Something you might build by repurposing the Tafiti Quick App source code? Marc is going to give away limited edition Tafiti t-shirts to the top-5 coolest submissions . So send your submission to tafiti@microsoft.com before February 15th, 2008 to be considered!

Source: MS Research

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