How Old Do You Really Look?

The Microsoft How Old? Project has been a phenomenon. The app, built to show off the new Windows 10 facial recognition API and the power of Azure cloud, uses algorithms to determine how old a user's face looks. And, understandably, it has become the definition of viral. It has grown faster than Facebook. It has even grown faster than Angry Birds. The stats speak for themselves:

• 1.2 million visitors per hour in 48 hours
• 540 million photos analysed to date
• More than 1/2 billion photos uploaded in 1 month
• 0-50 million users in just 7 days.
• Ellen even tweeted about it:

But don't stop at Ellen. THERE'S MORE.

We have exciting news: in a world first, the nsquared team is helping to bring the How Old? online experience into a real life experience.

All this work on How Old? has seemed to have weathered nsquared's faces by a few years, but stay tuned to see what this wrinkly crew has to offer. 

Azure Developer Challenge!

Early last month Microsoft announced its latest Developer Challenge to US Developers. This week on Monday (June 1), the contest was opened to the International Development community.

new CloudApp() is the Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge open to US Developers, and the Rest of the World, separately. Opened early this week for the likes of us downunder in Oz, the Challenge aims to find the best cloud application or service that can be built using the Azure Services Platform.

Submissions close on July 9, 2009 and the International winner will be judged by the Community who will vote for their favourite apps between July 10 and July 20.

With a $2500 VISA Gift Card up for grabs and the prestige, we think it’s worth the effort: How about you?

Find out more here: http://www.newcloudapp.com/