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After the Amplify09 expo I thought I would take the Augmented Reality (with Twitter, Live Mesh and Multi Touch) pictures and add them as a mosaic. This article made it all sound very easy, Deep Zoom from experience would create a good experience
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AR again/ After flicking through the Amnesia bloggers I discovered the GE augmented reality version of their smart grid . In the landing page there is some great animated information graphics (as made by MK12 in the movie “ stranger than fiction
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I've blogged previously about these but now they are updated to Silverlight 2.0 RTM. For Banking: http://www.bankingwithxaml.com/woodgrovefinancial/woodgrovebank.html For Insurance: http://www.snowdencole.com:3347/default.aspx For Capital Markets: http://wpfcontest.lab49.com/index.aspx
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Following the footsteps of Obama . Kevin Rudd and his team are twittering ZdNet suggests its because Malcolm Turnbull was there first According to Doug Purdy Twitter is dying and friend feed is now the usurper (no live links here though). I wonder if
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http://channel9.msdn.com/Media/Videos/ C9 Bytes: Don and Chris explain Oslo in 5 minutes The future of C# http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL16/ Blend - tips and tricks http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC47/ Windows Azure: Architecting & Managing
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Since the release notification of Silverlight 2.0 I thought I'd post some Silverlight 2.0 ready sites, tools and DIY goodness. If you haven’t seen it already, make sure you check Scott Guthrie’s post about the release Tools SWF2XAML : Flash to XAML Conversion
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Thanks to Chris Birmele for pointing me at PPTFlex. PPTFlex a prototype developed by Office Labs in partnership with the PowerPoint team. Their goal is to get lots of feedback to test the concept. Here is an example of my recent presentation
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After being inspired by my financial services account manager Chris Allison I thought I would have a go at the recently released PhotoSynth As I was working out of the bunker RFID room and various attendee rooms I thought I would try a collage of photographs
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Microsoft has partnered with NBC Universal to build a Silverlight 2.0 based web broadcast of the 2008 Summer Olympic games, with MSN being the official home site . As a part of this, Microsoft will provide users with exclusive access to over 3,000 hours
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I want a Surface device, and not suprisingly I want the SDK. See how easy it will be to develop for XNA and WPF below, you may want one too: Firefly is an example example of the SDK in use. From what I've heard Surface supports 52 simultaneous multi-touch
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I have been preparing for a TechPoint presentation on Silverlight with some nice graphics . I am trying to retrieve some data from an Rss feed and present in a Silverlight User Control. So I started with the Silverlight Quickstart for Syndication But
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I have been updating soem Silverlight 1.0 demo's to Silverlight 2 and came across this regular error. Its caused by a duplication of namespaces (e.g. UserControl redefines the namespace for its Canvas) Fix is therefore pretty easy: 1) You need to search
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Click on the image to take you to the site: Pity I can't get it to pickup bird's eye view of Sydney....
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If you are a developer then you need to see Live Mesh . I also recommend PDC 08 (I have previously been to PDC 03 and 05 but will miss this one - no longer in full time dev role) :( I joined up to the mesh (Tech Preview) a few weeks ago thanks to Yuri
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