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Site to promote launch of Windows Server 2008 Beta. The site allowed users to upload an image, which became part of a composite face to represent the averaged face of all the users contributing to the Beta software trial. Bespoke face detection software was used to create the composite face and a morph of the uploaded image into the composite. This was a global site which was customised for 49 locales containing 24 languages, including, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Romanian and Hebrew (RTL - reverse directional). The solution avoided the use of heavy overhead of localised typefaces, and a system was created that allowed a new language to be added within an hour.
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The style of this site comes from Brazil. I don’t know who he is, I just spotted the style at video.onflex.org. I have however got really stuck into customising it for my own pleasure. I have stripped out all that sidebar nonsence and categories and reduced it to a simple clean interface. I also added a little flash piece instead of an image.

Now, I’m not all that fussed about maintaining a blog, I doubt anyone will read it. Primarily, I just want to lean about the software. But more than that, I also want to use it as a CMS for my new site.
I’ll use the title and post for the heading and description, but I also need a link to the flash/image/flv/java file assets. For this I’ll use a custom field. When that is sorted I’ll need to add hidden categories for two of the features on the site - work and experiments. I can then get feeds of these categories that can be use to poulate the flash site. Nice.