October 2008 - Posts

• Windows 7 + Microsoft Surface = Success at PDC2008

  What a fantastic showing for IdentityMine at PDC this year. So many people to thank. Between the demo development, IdentityMine website update, press releases, logistics and booth support I could literally list all 70 members of our team as contributors. Thanks everyone! A special highlight this year was an application we built to show off our unique design and development capability on emerging platforms. Take a look at an Event Photos application we built for PDC2008 using Microsoft Surface, Windows 7, NextWindow and some Secret Sauce from IdentityMine: More on our Windows 7 Secret Sauce (below): Posted Oct 30 2008, 12:52 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Andrew Whiddett, Surface, Windows 7, NextWindow, Meaghan McAllister

• Welcome Lu Silverstein! – Bye, Bye old Role.

  Lu Silverstein will be officially joining IdentityMine today as our SVP of Products and Services. Wait a second… that’s my role. Thus far I’ve been focused on the delivery side of the IdentityMine products and services business. Since officially taking the role of SVP of Products and Service back in early 2007 we’ve shipped three product offerings under the blendables brand and have several service offerings in the WPF, Silverlight and Surface space. However, as these emerging technology ecosystems grow, so must our ability to deliver. Lu Silverstein has been part of Surface Computing at Microsoft Corp. since September 2003. Silverstein has worked with Microsoft for ten years on a variety of new-category products. His experience growing teams at Microsoft will be invaluable to IdentityMine as we move to take our business to the next level. Again, welcome Lu! What will I be doing? IdentityMine does some amazingly fantastic things. The problem is… Very few know about it. In addition, we need to transition from an “order taking” to “self directed” company. Meaning - thus far we have yet to build a sales team which targets industries and associated customers that are ideal for our offerings and objectives. Thankfully, as of today we have a long list of very relevant customers. However, as the ecosystem grows it will make sense to be strategic about where we focus our delivery mechanism. In my new role as SVP of Sales and Marking it will be my responsibility to make the above adjustments. Although today is my first official day on the job, in the background I have been working with Kurt Brockett (Director of UX Evangelism) and Craig Jaris (Director of Business Development) for the last couple months on these new challenges. Come see us at PDC 2008 and be sure to monitor identitymine.com to see how these new initiatives surface. Posted Oct 15 2008, 04:40 PM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Kurt Brockett, Chad Brown, Craig Jaris, Lu Silverstein, Identity Mine

• First Ever Microsoft Surface + Media Card Reader Deployment

  Excellent write-up from Kurt Brockett our Director of UX Evangelism on the Hotel 1000 Microsoft Surface deployment. IdentityMine was privileged to be chosen as the Hotel 1000 surface partner. Of note was the first ever public deployment of the Microsoft Surface external media card enhancement. Details on this enhancement can be seen at 3:55 in the following video: Posted Oct 08 2008, 04:54 AM by Chad Brown, IdentityMine - Recognizing our team. Filed under: Kurt Brockett, Chad Brown, Surface