by kevinle via Windows Live for Developers on 6/23/2009 4:49:00 PM
Imagine a great consumer experience that provides visual search and the ability to share photos with your friends via IM – that is what Photobucket landed this week by using Silverlight to create a rich visual search and combining it with Windows Live Messenger to make it social. Photobucket visual search is a great example of how the activity of searching for images can be turned into a rich and compelling social experience, taking full advantage of one of the most widespread social sharing behaviors with Windows Live Messenger. Photobucket made use of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit UI Controls which provides a skinable and flexible way to interact with the 320+ million people who use Windows Live Messenger monthly. The UI controls can be easily integrated (see Interactive SDK) in web sites and makes a lot of the heavy lifting (coding JavaScript) only required if you want a fully custom experience. To get more in-depth details of how the implementation was done see Angus Logan's blogpost.
Original Post: Photobucket builds a rich and social visual search with Windows Live Messenger
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