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Pete at MIX10: Josh Blake on Natural User Interface and WPF Multi-touch

April 22, 10 //

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With Windows 7, WPF 4, Silverlight 4, and the road paved by our multi-touch handheld devices, Multi-touch is really hitting mainstream.

While at MIX10, I spoke with Josh Blake about NaturalShow, his multi-touch not-PowerPoint presentation approach, written in WPF. Josh uses multi-touch to navigate through a really clever way of presenting material. I’d try and describe it, but it’s really best if you watch it.

Pete at MIX10: Richard Costall – Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7

April 5, 10 //

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One of the more interesting uses for Silverlight is casual gaming. When you add Windows Phone 7 Series into the mix, it becomes even more exciting.

At MIX10, I met up with Microsoft MVP and all around cool guy, Richard Costall. He showed me how, with no real changes, he was able to get his Silverlight game Manic Miner to run on the Windows Phone 7 Series. In fact, he did the port that day, using bits he just received at the conference. He plans to take this further and optimize the experience for the Windows Phone. I can’t wait to see the results.

Bill Buxton & Microsoft Student Insiders at MIX10

March 31, 10 //

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Microsoft Student Insiders, Joe Osborne and Tom Ziegman, were lucky enough to spend some time with the busiest man at MIX10, Bill Buxton. Bill talks about the complexity (and necessity) of integrating the disciplines of technology, business and design. And true to his Canadian heritage, he uses a hockey analogy to explain why all members of the team need to play a part in creating Natural User Interfaces.

Get the latest on the Microsoft Student Insiders by watching the #MicrosoftSI tag on Twitter.

Bill Buxton & Microsoft Student Insiders at MIX10

March 31, 10 //

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Get the latest on the Microsoft Student Insiders by watching the #MicrosoftSI tag on Twitter.

Pete at MIX10: Umbraco Core Team Interview

March 26, 10 //

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I recently ported my own site and blog from a combination of community server and custom code to the Umbraco open source CMS and Blog4Umbraco 4. There are several other sites at Microsoft that are following a similar path.

At MIX10, I caught up with a bunch of dudes related to Umbraco, including Per Ploug Hansen from the Umbraco Corporation itself, Alex Norcliffe, a core team member from Xeed, Pete Miller, a user and creator of some related work from Conde Nast Digital, and Will Coleman from Microsoft UK. Together we discussed what Umbraco is, how folks are using it, what you need to know to work in it, and a little on where Umbraco is going in the future.

My MIX10 Wrap-up post on my Umbraco-based blog.

Windows Phone 7 Series Shazam App: MIX 2010 Keynote

March 25, 10 //

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Jeff Sandquist demos Shazam on the Windows Phone 7 Series during the MIX10 keynote Address. Shazam is an amazing music discovery engine that allows you to find, buy and share the song that is playing right now. But don’t listen to me- let Jeff tell you!

Pete at MIX10: Your Favorite Things at MIX

March 23, 10 //

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During the final hours of MIX10, I ran around randomly shoving a camera in front of people and putting them on to the spot to tell me their “Favorite thing at MIX.” Watch to see why MIX is more than just the sessions, more than just Silverlight and Windows Phone, more than the Next Web…and why I spent most of the conference slacking in the Commons.

Recognize yourself in the video? Drop a note below to tell everyone who you are and what you liked.

For more MIX10 information, see my MIX10 recap post here.

An Extended Look at Project Gustav – Immersive Digital Painting

March 23, 10 //

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As part of his MIX10 keynote presentation Bill Buxton showed off Project Gustav – an immersive digital painting experience created by Microsoft Research – as an example of natural user interface.

Previously covered on Channel 9 as part of the TechFest 2010 coverage we invited the Project Gustav guys back into the studio for a deeper dive into what they’ve built, why they chose to build it and what makes this experience so different from other tablet-based painting applications.

More on Project Gustav: Project Gustav is a realistic painting-system prototype that enables
artists to become immersed in the digital painting experience. It
achieves interactivity and realism by leveraging the computing power of
modern GPUs, taking full advantage of multitouch and tablet input
technology and our novel natural media-modeling and brush-simulation
algorithms. Project Gustav is a great example of how Microsoft’s
research efforts are leading to exciting new technologies to support
creativity.

This video originally aired during the Channel 9 Live at MIX10 Day 1
lunch break on March 15th 2010.

Countdown to MIX10: From the Road

March 22, 10 //

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It’s the FINAL Countdown!!! @anyware and @ritzy report on MIX10 statistics and tell behind the scenes stories from the conference. Guess how much coffee and how much bandwidth MIX10 users went through this year, and who got a broken nose!

System Update: Slowness when playing recent videos

March 19, 10 //

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Hey folks,

Our Content Delivery Network (CDN) is experiencing very high traffic due to MIX10 session content. To resolve this, we will be blocking access to the MIX sessions temporarily while they copy all of the MIX sessions into various edge caches around the world.

The end result of this work will be to resolve all of the poor streaming/buffering issues that we’ve been seeing on all of our properties, including Channel 9, Edge, live.visitmix.com and others.

We expect access to be re-enabled later today, with a current estimate of 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Thanks for your patience!

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