Nigel Parker's Outside Line : Virtual Earth

Emerging Web Technologies

nparker — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:56:00 GMT

I presented today alongside David Bolocker amongst others on Service Oriented Architecture, Web 2.0 and Mashups.

I even came up with my own quote...

"Software Convergence, is not the reduction of solutions but the expansion of presentation & information to user combinations."

Check out my presentation at http://gobeyond.net.nz/brightstar and tell me what you think.

Michael Sampson live blogged the event.

Expand Your Portfolio... it's a wrap!

nparker — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:09:00 GMT

Hey there,

Two weeks ago we met and presented to over 200 people from more than 85 companies across New Zealand!

We got some great feedback and had heaps of fun doing it!

I have got great feedback via email and I have had truck loads of people wanting to show their friends... learn more and try things out themselves!

What sites did we update/release?

http://www.microsoft.com/expression

http://www.microsoft.com/design

http://www.microsoft.com/wpfe

What did I showcase last week...

WPF

firstlook.nytimes.com

Blend (Beta 1)

thirteen23.com, harmony (itunes/Amazon desktop mashup), denounce (next gen rss/podcast reader)

Tools

SWF2XAML (v1), demo, video

AItoXAML

Expression Web (Available Now)

personifydesign.com

ASP.NET AJAX (Release Candidate)

sample sites, from NZ - http://ecobob.com

Vista Media Center

mobilewares, Media Center Extender Video

Sidebar

Building a WPF Vista Sidebar Gadget, Gadgets

WPF/E (Community Preview)

Playground, Flash/ WPF/E coexist

Windows Live

Fresh Logic Studio GPS Mashup

Queenstown 3D video, Virtual Earth 3D

Photosynth

Where are my custom demos?

Demonstrating Designer & Developer Workflow using a 3D Kiwi, code

NZ Vector Animation in XAML (requires .NET 3.0 Runtime Installed)

"experience is the product" video presentation (rough cut, includes preview of Right Hemispheres upcoming version of Deep Publish)

Rapid prototyping using XAML and Blend (requires .NET 3.0 Runtime Installed)

Where can you go to learn?

Back in June I blogged about learning WPF, after Tech.Ed I also posted a bunch of my videos (including the Tablet Montage) showcasing WPF.

The community site for Windows Presentation Foundation - http://wpf.netfx3.com

Videos for the release candidate of ASP.NET AJAX

Training for the Expresion tools

What has been released since?

Microsoft Robotics Studio Version 1

XNA Game Studio Express Version 1, Sharky (local XNA game developer)

3D Tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation - Example

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

Show me the video of what people are using WPF for.

5 minute overview video

Where is this conversation going next?

To Vegas Baby... April 30th - May 2nd.

Who do you recognise from "Mix and Mash"?

The person next to BillG looks like someone that I met at WebStock in March... what do you think?

Take some time over Christmas to pass that Suck Threshold.

Merry Christmas

Virtual Earth 3D

nparker — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:31:00 GMT

I saw a demo of Virtual Earth 3D a month ago and was impressed with the vision and possibilities of the platform.

Check out http://www.my3dvistas.com/ unfortunately you'll need to change your language settings to en-us before installing the viewer, since VE3D is only available in some geographies other languages/ geographies are being blocked from installing with a pleasant but annoying error message.

But once installed when I travelled to New Zealand I was very happy to find National Park :)

I love this area here are a couple of my photos taken there.

Compare this with SketchUp by Google and I see another example where the consumer will ultimately win out with the countless opportunities to innovate and mashup on top of these platforms.