Photo from TechEd2007 Josh Wagoner has jumped into the fray that is blogging.  You can find his new home, Blog Bloginski, over at: http://blog.dobaginski.com/josh/.  That’s Josh above and I promise you he isn’t our customer service reps who wears that headset all the time.  He’s actually rocking an impromptu VSIP session detailing some of the tech [...]

Today on the Windows Vista Blog, David Webster provided an update on the Mojave Experiment.  There is a ton of great information on some of the behind the scenes thinking on the campaign and how it all went down.  To me though the most important update is what you find in the right click menu. [...]

The IxDA event Wednesday night sponsored by us and REZN8 was a success! The LA office was filled with 20+ guests from the interaction design community. It was a great opportunity for us to showcase the Surface demos (Wine bar & Snowboard) to a group of creatives and seek out talent as well. Andrew Whiddett and John O’Keefe presented for almost an hour. Andrew covered why to use Surface, the design challenges, gestures, and physics. John did a deep-dive on the design aspects (wireframe, motion studies).

 

After the presentation, Andrew showed the demos. I heard lots of “oohs” and “aahs”, suffice to say, most (if not all) were impressed. So impressed that we had to start putting chairs away to signal the end of the event. Otherwise, I think it would have lasted until midnight! It was exciting to see the same response I had when I first saw the demos myself. Andrew, John, and Jason were constantly surrounded by guests eager to ask questions. It solidifies that we have such a talented team that create amazing applications … I’m glad to be part of it. Looking forward to hopefully sponsoring and/or hosting another event in the future.

 

In case you missed Andrew’s demo presentation, make sure you check it out! Surface - Wine Bar & Snowboard Demo

 

We are eager to be able to show off more of our Surface work in the future… stay tuned!

This past week on “Dynamics Duo”, a Dynamics themed set of videos on Channel9, Ben Riga and Girish Raja  showed some new User Experiences built around Dynamics.  At IdentityMine we had the privilege of working with the Dynamics team to deliver the WPF and Silverlight portions shown in these videos.  You’ll first see some of [...]

This morning I had the pleasure of waking up to some great news.  Laurent Bugnion is joining IdentityMine! Laurent will be joining as a Senior Interactive Developer and will stay based in Zurich but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him at the Seattle office a few times during the year.  Laurent has always [...]

As you may have seen yesterday IdentityMine has been working on some cool stuff around  Microsoft’s Surface technology.  As part of an effort to share some of the details behind this project, IdentityMine and REZN8 have partnered with the local IxDA chapter to host a discussion next Wednesday, August 20 in Los Angeles. IxDA Los Angeles [...]

Back in January I posted the photo on the left declaring “Yes, I’m a Nerd”.  If you read back to that post it explains that I was spending my evening watching the Bill Gates Keynote from CES.  Now that is all true but originally it seemed I had no real reason for wanting to actually [...]

There is a lot of buzz about RIAs and other online browser based technologies and sometimes it hard to imagine there are traditional desktop based applications being actively developed and invested in.  At IdentityMine we see a lot of powerful enterprise level desktop applications and every so often one grabs the attention of the [...]

Probably my favorite part of working at IdentityMine is the chance to work with truly awesome peeps who I consider not just coworkers but friends and family.  If you ever get a chance to grab a meal or just have a conversation with Robby DO IT.  Robby used to blog on notstatic.com but recently [...]

As part of the upcoming SilverlightDevCampSeattle get together we asked for participants to submit logos.  We received four entries and the poll is currently up over on www.silverlightdevcampseattle.com. Voting ends June 11, 2008 at 11:59PM PST.

When Expression Studio 2 shipped back on May 1 the first thing I did was run over the MSDN to grab the new Blend and Web builds.  Unfortunately they didn’t immediately post to MSDN.  It looks like the builds were posted on 5/27.  In the meantime we got by using the 30 day trial until [...]

Loic Le Meur posted a few weeks back about Seesmic working together with Microsoft to deliver a Silverlight Mobile client.  This has a few positive impacts for our community. 1)  Seesmic and Loic are doing great, innovative things.  I haven’t had much of a chance to play with Seesmic so I can’t talk as an [...]

Back when I kicked this off in April I was focused on setting our date then working on venues and volunteers. After a few days I had been contacted by a few folks and we started looking into location and sponsors. By that time we had a few attendees and looking to have [...]

(Photo from FastCompany.com) I’m excited for July for two reasons this year.  The first is that it’s my birthday month.  That’s nothing new.  The other is that Microsoft is set to launch a $300 million ad campaign created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky.  In this month’s Fast Company magazine there is an article detailing some [...]

On March 25, 2008 Microsoft published the technical specifications for Extensible Application Markup Language (Xaml).  Honestly now that it’s May I can’t really remember anyone making too big a deal about this.  A few weeks back at ReMIX Silicon Valley someone blurted out "Well when will Silverlight be supported on a Mac?".  Of course the [...]