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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 can do it from the session.  You can follow those at ...

  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 version 2.0, now with DLR SilverLight 2.0 Expression Design running on a ...

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 it. Surface brings a larger space to interact with, and more options.  ...

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 about getting designers, developers, architects and ...

  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, and helpful.  They succeed pretty much 100% of the time.  And the ...

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).    Sean

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'' on a Fingerworks keyboard become ''zoom in and zoom out'' on the ...

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, the good people at Fingerworks (oh, I mean Apple's iPhone) work, and the work ...

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 XNA. The development process is much like normal Vista development, but custom ...