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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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Edward Tufte, master presenter, author and information design visionary will be in Atlanta on March 24th and 25th . If you haven't seen him, register here . You also get all four of his books included in the price. I'll be here and if I can go, possibly
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Here's an idea for Photosynth that I'd like to see happen, that I had about a year ago. Premise : Visual hyperlinking that uses Photosynth style photo mapping for search matches. Usage : You're out looking for a place to eat and you snap a pic with your
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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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Over at the ISV Developer Evangelism blog, jpelak posted about a couple of preview SilverLight control toolsets, that are now available. They're from ComponentOne ( the Sapphire toolkit ) and InterSoft ( the WebAqua toolkit ). Both are beautiful and usable,
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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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And win... The good people over at Lab49 (New York's finest WPF consultancy) have a contest focused on using WPF in finance. I've long felt that WPF is a perfect match for the financial market, due to the rich visualization needs and the shear amount
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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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Found via UX magazine ... Flare, "ActionScript 3 (Flash) libraries for interactive visualizations on the web". Here's a cool toolset for interactive visualizations using Flash, check out the demo reel for some cool stuff. I like the "Star Burst" view,
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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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w Check out this video for some very interesting UI effects. It's called CompCom , and it's a re-merge of Beryl and Compiz. There's some eye candy effects and some interesting usable effects (dodge). Kudos to the
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Graphics can really tie things together in a way that words can't sometimes. Check out this graphic about becoming a fan via Church of the Customer. Sean
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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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