Monday, March 12, 2012

Exploring Microsoft Research Fuse Labs, Great ideas in research

Microsoft Research Fuse Labs has been rolling out some new ideas worth mentioning. Netizens are less aware of these products and we will take you through some of their best ideas. In this series of exploring the Fuse Labs, I’ll take one product daily and we’ll find in depth feature of those.

 

 

Montage

montage

Montage is a cool web based service that lets you create a web page on the topic of your choice in no time. What it basically does is, it will create w webpage by collecting feeds from across the web on the keyword you enter.3

Beginning with, just navigate to Montage Home Page and on the top right corner you’ll find ‘Type a topic here’ box. Just key in the topic you would like to create a web page on and press enter and .wait for a few minutes before it collects the feeds for you.

The web page would come up and it will have all the latest feeds on that particular topic. There are various templates available and you’ll have the option of pressing next untill you get satisfied wit the look and feel of the page.

This is the result page I got for my topic Windows Phone

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Isn’t this cool?

Click on setting if you want more customization on the page, you have the option of including Twitter Feed, Images, maps, search results and much more on either of the columns of the page. You can also change the background as per your requirement.

On the top right of this screen you have the option of publishing it. There are three services you can sign in with including Facebook and Twitter. Just click on publish and there you go.

Have you created a webpage easier than this ever before?