Welcome to the Kitchen

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 ...

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 we could have a meetup with Professor Tufte ...

  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 camera phone of a café, the send the image to the Photosynth query ...

  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 ...

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, (remember that UX is not just about looks) and would be at home ...

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.  ...

Join all of us and our host, Shawn Wildermuth, for discussions from the Oracle SOA suite (it's not limited to just Microsoft technologies) to SilverLight (Shawn) to LINQ (Jim).  Join us for food, brew and conversation.  RSVP here! http://www.geekdinners.com/geekdinners/DinnerInstance.aspx?id=3  See you Thursday at ...

Check out the video spoof of Bill Gates last day at work from the CES keynote over at Long Zheng's blog. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080107/bill-gates-last-day-microsoft-video/ I've always loved the fact that Bill Gates is able to have fun with these videos.  And the cast is pretty impressive.  

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 of data.  So here's your chance to take their data and build something ...