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I haven't really had a chance to blog to much while I've been here at Mix 08. There's just to much to see. From Surface to Elvis there is just to many cool things here and even more great people to meet. I've been twittering most everything because I
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I thought I'd put together a list of predictions for MIX 08. Some could happen, some will happen and some could not happen, you decide! Steve Ballmer gives Keynote in black turtleneck and jeans. IE 8 demo IE 8 uses the "Office Ribbon" toolbar. Popfly
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I think that surface and gesture computing is going to explode over the next five years. We're going to see it in many areas of our life. We already are with devices like the iPhone and the HTC Touch, however Surface will bring more opportunities with
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In the new MIX08 podcast found at " The Signal ", during episode 2 or 3 , it's stated that MIX is all about the Web (not the exact quote). I disagree. MIX is about UX . It's about the tools and technologies from Microsoft to build those experiences. Its
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After watching this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg on the Android Demo, I have to say that the touch portion of the demo is nice. Who knows, maybe I could create a "copy and paste" program for the touch device and win some of that 10
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VisitMix for 08 is now open on the web. Register here . Get your blog bling here . They've got posters, wallpaper (not yet), blog bling and contests! But if you look at the keynote speakers, you'll see that Steve Ballmer and Scott Guthrie are the line-up.
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So there's a couple of posts on the net ( Engadget , Gizmodo , c|net and even the Surface Blog ) about the delay of Surface until next spring. So what! I say do it right and take your time. When Surface hits the public for prime time it needs to be ready.
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I recently returned from a vacation to one of the pioneers of UX , Walt Disney World . And the thing that impressed me was the experience that Disney wanted you to have. They want it immersive, consistent, friendly, themed, thrilling yet safe, familiar,
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I found the Surface team blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/surface/default.aspx Hopefully there be lots of cool bits coming from them. I'd love to hear and see what apps they are creating (from a UX side) and the challenges (from a technical side). Sea
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Surface presents some interesting problems with UI. One is how do you handle large scale datasets? For example, my digital camera has a 4 gig SD card for storage, which can hold about 1200 photos, what happens when 1200 photos "spill" out onto the surface?
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Since Apple brought on the founders of Fingerworks , I think I know why the iPhone doesn't have "cut and paste" . It's because the gestures for cut and paste are used for different actions on the iPhone from the Fingerworks keyboards. So "cut and paste"
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Over at Long Zheng's site , he's got a video of the good people over at Microsoft Research Cambridge demoing a tablet version of Microsoft Surface . In the video you'll see Steve Hodges demo the functionality and how they did it. With Jeff Han's work,
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Looks like I was correct in my last post about Microsoft's surface using WPF. Here's a quote from ArsTechinca article about "What lurks below Microsoft's Surface" . <quote> Surface applications can be written in Windows Presentation Foundation or
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