This week I found a few extremely cool things I wanted to share:
With their own words: “DeepEarth is a community project focused on creating a rich interactive mapping control using Silverlight2 Deep Zoom. Concentrating on Microsoft Virtual Earth imagery and data the project offers team members the opportunity to learn and share while creating something cool and useful. The project will explore using the MultiScaleImage control (Deep Zoom) for tile layers and user content, User Experience around mapping with Silverlight and the performance benefits and coding practises of native .net code. Expect some cool functionality from this amazing technology.” I definitely recommend looking at it, it is really a nice, smart and beautiful application of Silverlight, Deepzoom and Virtual Earth.
With their own words: “DeepEarth is a community project focused on creating a rich interactive mapping control using Silverlight2 Deep Zoom. Concentrating on Microsoft Virtual Earth imagery and data the project offers team members the opportunity to learn and share while creating something cool and useful. The project will explore using the MultiScaleImage control (Deep Zoom) for tile layers and user content, User Experience around mapping with Silverlight and the performance benefits and coding practises of native .net code. Expect some cool functionality from this amazing technology.”
I definitely recommend looking at it, it is really a nice, smart and beautiful application of Silverlight, Deepzoom and Virtual Earth.
How I use Windows Vista
This guy published a video on how he uses Windows Vista for his design work. Apart from the fact that he likes Vista (hehe) the video itself is extremely well done and worth watching. Thanks to Steve Clayton for blogging about it.
Microsoft Surface at the Rio in Las Vegas
Some time ago, right after the initial announcement of Microsoft Surface, a guy I know asked me “Well who on earth would want to buy a $15,000 table with a touch screen to put in their living room when you can get the same features in your pc?”. I think that was a completely short sighted question, once a cool technology is out, smart people will find smart ways of using it. The application shown in this video is a bit cheesy but… well I really wish it was available when I was 20 :) Am I right in saying that this is every geek’s dream??? And by the way… this is not just a marketing video, this thing is really there (check this out on Channel 10 and on the Surface team blog).
Some time ago, right after the initial announcement of Microsoft Surface, a guy I know asked me “Well who on earth would want to buy a $15,000 table with a touch screen to put in their living room when you can get the same features in your pc?”.
I think that was a completely short sighted question, once a cool technology is out, smart people will find smart ways of using it. The application shown in this video is a bit cheesy but… well I really wish it was available when I was 20 :) Am I right in saying that this is every geek’s dream???
And by the way… this is not just a marketing video, this thing is really there (check this out on Channel 10 and on the Surface team blog).
Lots of Windows Mobile demos
My colleagues Jason Langridge (Mr. Windows Mobile in the UK) and Dan Arildson have been delivering a session called Windows Mobile Smackdown at our internal technical conference for a while now. To get into that session, you need to queue early and the room is always packed. Now they decided to do the same at Tech-Ed in Orlando and published the list of demos they run… check it out, it is seriously cool stuff.
My colleagues Jason Langridge (Mr. Windows Mobile in the UK) and Dan Arildson have been delivering a session called Windows Mobile Smackdown at our internal technical conference for a while now. To get into that session, you need to queue early and the room is always packed.
Now they decided to do the same at Tech-Ed in Orlando and published the list of demos they run… check it out, it is seriously cool stuff.
Inspiration Tour Wrap Up Video
Ed Dunhill and Ben Coley have been travelling up and down the UK this year to present Microsoft technologies to university students. They travelled over 15,000 miles, spoke to more than 4,000 students in 60 UK universities… Ed just posted this video which summarises what it was all about… I myself went to present at one university and have to say it was an extremely rewarding experience.
Ed Dunhill and Ben Coley have been travelling up and down the UK this year to present Microsoft technologies to university students. They travelled over 15,000 miles, spoke to more than 4,000 students in 60 UK universities… Ed just posted this video which summarises what it was all about…
I myself went to present at one university and have to say it was an extremely rewarding experience.
And speaking about videos… check out this…
Martin Shannon-Smith, an amazing student from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, created this 1 minute teaser video to explain what the Imagine Cup is really all about. A really inspiring piece of work and of such a high quality that we were all amazed!!!!
Martin Shannon-Smith, an amazing student from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, created this 1 minute teaser video to explain what the Imagine Cup is really all about.
A really inspiring piece of work and of such a high quality that we were all amazed!!!!