{"id":236,"date":"2007-08-24T22:39:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T22:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/microsoft-launches-tafiti\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T22:40:27","slug":"microsoft-launches-tafiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/microsoft-launches-tafiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches Tafiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried it yet check out Microsoft&#8217;s experimental new search front end Tafiti &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tafiti.com\">http:\/\/www.tafiti.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/simplegeek.com\/mharsh\/tafiti.jpg\" width=\"515\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on Microsoft&#8217;s new SilverLight technology, their competitor to Flash. It uses a cool desktop metaphor where you can spin through different kinds of results, drag and drop them into piles which you can label and share with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Although it might seem gimmicky and not particularly useful at first glance, it is actually quite innovative and and a lot of fun to use. It&#8217;s a great showcase for SilverLight but it&#8217;s interesting to contrast how Apple are doing a lot of work in bringing metaphors such as stacks to the desktop UI, and Microsoft seem to be focussing on Search and the Web.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out for yourselves! I think it&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried it yet check out Microsoft&#8217;s experimental new search front end Tafiti &#8211; http:\/\/www.tafiti.com. It&#8217;s based on Microsoft&#8217;s new SilverLight technology, their competitor to Flash. It uses a cool desktop metaphor where you can spin through different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/microsoft-launches-tafiti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[417,59,386,421,148,147,400],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-usability","tag-cool-stuff","tag-interaction-design","tag-microsoft","tag-search","tag-silver-light","tag-tafiti","tag-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}