The PDC kicks off on Monday, but it starts for me on Saturday morning as I am involved in one of the pre conferences - WomenBuild
I’m trying to get organized before my trip, so I’ve been looking for tips online to help me get sorted and there is plenty :
For those of you who can’t make it to LA, watch it live on www.microsoftpdc.com
Keynote 1 – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson 8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Time Monday, October 27 Keynote 2- Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell 8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Time Tuesday, October 28
Keynote 1 – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Time Monday, October 27
Keynote 2- Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell
8:30-10:30 AM Pacific Time Tuesday, October 28
And do what Mitch Denny will be doing and get the Twitter Ticket to PDC2008
Can’t wait!
I was asked the following question, ”How do you do your status updates?”, this week by one of my work colleagues who is also one of my “online” friends. Seems my frequency of updates is overwhelming his quite digital existence.
I do use a bunch of different tools to keep my status up to date, so to answer that question for my friend, here’s what I do.
When I am out and about, I like to take photos and I use ShoZu to tag and post the photos I take to all my favorite destinations, such as flickr, brightkite & twitpic.
So uploading one photo causes a flurry of status updates.
I have brightkite setup to cross post to my twitter stream, which also updates my facebook status. One upload, 3 status updates!
Speaking of status updates, I have \been trying out some services which can update across many social networks – two which I use are ping.fm and hellotxt.com. All are easy to setup and use, and come in handy when I want to synchronize something across *all* my social networks.
In terms of other applications I use, I wrote about TinyTwitter a while back, and I have the latest version which can include data from a GPS in the tweet, and it actually updates the location field in twitter. That’s kinda funky.
I also stumbled across GPSTwit which has a simple Windows Mobile app and I have been giving it a try. It creates “breadcrumbs” of your travels, which I kinda like.
But, my favorite status update site is http://m.slandr.net – because of one killer feature – SEARCH. It’s a browser based app, but it’s fast and super easy to use.
So, there you have it. A run down of some of the things I use to keep my status up to date because I so want to tell the world what I am doing….
The following tweet came across my screen yesterday and it made me think…
I also looked and found an article from a few years back - Most MP3 players 'barely half full' which said
The average user fills only 58 per cent of their music player, leaving the average player with more than 4GB of free space
Curious, I check out my current music player – a Zune 120gb which I recently picked up. The stats show I am about 49% full, which means I have another 60GB available. That’s what I call an infinite digital jukebox!
Speaking of Zune – here’s my zune profile and zune card
I got sent to {You shape} it, a new site that focuses on all Microsoft things related to design, development and IT management.
It’s full of silverlight goodness, with a snappy theme song and some fun activities, including adding your name to the Shape City billboard
As I was wandering the site, I got flashbacks of The Neverhood – anyone remember that ?
It was a claymation adventure game from the fertile mind of Douglas TenNapel, who also fathered Earthworm Jim
The Neverhood was just sooooo good! I loved that game!
Just watch a video of the intro to see what I mean.
How awesome is that!
Anyways, {You shape} it is pretty cool and I am sure we will see more cool stuff appear over the next few months.
I have 4 kids.
They have grown up using computers and I have written some of their stories -Dale and the Dolphin Whales : My Own RockBand, Explaining Yourself to a 2nd Grader, Mathletics - All the kids are doing it., Proud Dad Moment, Take Our Daughters & Sons To Work Day 2008, Emma and CyberQuoll, The things kids brag about at school these days, Installing Windows Vista RC1, Observing a new Windows Vista User, What happens after XBOX 360 midnight madness , My Boy Billy is getting a Tablet just like Me!, Children & Blogs @ School, do kids blog? – maybe, Do Kids Blog - Part 2
They *are* the “Digital Natives”!
Now, they have expressed in interest in doing more than just playing games, or surfing websites.
They want to make their own games.
They want to create their own websites.
They want to learn more.
Finally, I have a great place to send them to -- Kid’s Corner on MSDN.
This teaser has started appearing all over my building
I like it!