So, last Thursday (the 21st) we had a really cool release event over at the Microsoft building in Brussels. A handful of bloggers came to our brand new offices to participate in a Q&A session with the Photosynth team, live over video stream with a unique conceptual instant translator service, courtesy of Live Labs. I had 8 blogger slots to fill up and invited some of the most respected and most read bloggers of the country. The first hour of the event was the Q&A session, of which the recording is added below. The next part of the event was a workshop on how to start synthing for yourself, followed by a super cool sneak preview of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 by my colleague Jurgen Van Duvel. After that we had some pizzas and sodas, while some bloggers enjoyed the view and started taking pictures of our top floor to throw them in a synth later that night. After the dinner break, Ine Van Leeuw from the local Windows Live team showed off the new messengerbillboard.be website that had just been released (also in French) and to top off the goodness, I threw in a few small mobile demos of some nice apps I’ve been testing the past weeks: Guitar Hero For Windows Mobile devices and DashWire. (I’ve referred to them in an earlier post, you can check them out there). If you have a Windows Mobile enable device and you’re running the WinMobile 6 version, here is the .cab file for you to download to start enjoying the awesomeness of Guitar Hero. Obviously this is just the trial. The full version costs about 15$ and features a lot more songs and goodies.

So, enjoy the video from the event, and if you have any additional comments or questions, just email me or put them in the comments.

If you feel like you need to be part of future events at Microsoft, drop me a line in the comments too, so I can check out your blog and add you to the invitee list.

Read feeback about this event (mostly Dutch and French):

Pietel (Pieter Baert) - Twitter: Pietel
BNOX (Clo Willaerts) - Twitter: BNOX (ENG Blogpost)
Maarten Schenk + Live Stream (recorded) - Twitter: mschenk
eMich (Michaël Uyttersprot) - Twitter: eMich
LVB (Luc Van Braekel) - Twitter: LVB
BVLG (Bruno Peeters) - Twitter: BVLG

Go try the Photosynth, if you missed all the buzz, and check out the team blog to stay up to date with changes and upgrades and to learn more about the product by following the cool turorials and how-to guides!