ProjectX Technology

We’re lifting the lid on some functionality that we’ve been working for a while to make it easier to browse content on ZoomIn. For the first release (currently in “Garage Mode”) we’re focusing on browsing photos. So now you can look at all of the photos around any location, as you zoom and pan around the photos will constantly update.

To get the browse photos explorer either click on  explore photos on the home page or search for any address or place and expand the results box to reveal the Explore photos link.

We have two modes of browsing Photo bar and Thumbnails.

Photo Bar style

Browse the photos via the photo bar.

Thumbnail style

View all of the photos on the map.

Explore Photos is in Garage mode, which means we’ll be tinkering and improving over the next few weeks.

We appreciate your suggestions and feedback, so let us know what you think.

Firefox 3 has been officially released and looking under the hood it has been tweaked for faster page loading.

Here are the key connection values in Firefox 2 and 3.

As we can see the maximum number of connections and number of connections per server has been increased. So that’s good news for more parallel downloading. And they’ve also increased the number of persistance connections so that future requests will be a bit faster. Another interesting thing is that http pipelining is turned off by default.

So far Firefox 3 has been snappier and more memory efficient! Download Firefox 3 today and squeeze a bit more performance from your bandwidth!

Xlinks is a collection of interesting links as discovered by the ProjectX Team

Steve Yegge on Server side Javascript
Added on 06/17/2008 at 07:21AM


The passive agressive programmer or why nothing gets done
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:44PM





Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:40PM


Now you can upload PDFs into Google Docs
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:40PM




Calculus in 20 minutes
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:39PM


Facebook no longer the second largest social network
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:39PM


How to create keypress navigation in jQuery
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:37PM


37 signals on You have to treat employees like customers
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:36PM


Algorithmic ink in Javascript
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:34PM


Zen Planning: 4 Simple Rules for Balancing Short Term Necessity with Long Term Direction
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:33PM


NZ Broadband is trailing the rest of the world
Added on 06/16/2008 at 02:03PM


Runtime page optimiser
Added on 06/16/2008 at 12:19PM


Javascript framework usage at top sites
Added on 06/12/2008 at 08:39AM


37 signals link to BMW’s Gina
Added on 06/11/2008 at 10:13PM


Yahoo Design templates -wireframes
Added on 06/11/2008 at 05:58PM


Yahoo Design Patterns
Added on 06/11/2008 at 05:57PM


Free Rails 2.1 PDF
Added on 06/10/2008 at 04:53PM


How not to be viral – software adoption patterns
Added on 06/10/2008 at 03:49PM


iPhone NZ bound July 11
Added on 06/10/2008 at 12:54PM


Passenger 2.0 rc1 and ruby enterprise released
Added on 06/10/2008 at 09:43AM

How cool is this ????

Here’s a look at some ZoomIn traffic from last Sunday. The video was based on the realtime visualisation of ZoomIn using the glTrail tool by fudgie.org. (They also make the awesome gltail tool)

Who knew ZoomIn would build its own deathstar !

The team from ActionThis have created a new product called Runtime Page Optimizer that will dynamically optimise your webpages at runtime. It looks like a fantastic product to solve a lot of the problems highlight by the NZ Homepage hall of shame.

Runtime Page Optimiser features:

• Combines all javascript and css on the fly
• Generates CSS sprites on the fly
• No code modifications required!
• Runs on ASP.net 2 and and IIS 6/7
• Compatible with IE6/7 , Firefox 2/3, Safari 3

The product is currently in Beta and from the demos it already looking really great.

Well done guys, I look forward to seeing this product hit 1.0!