Kurt Brockett

Join us at our new home - /forward

aidmine — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Hey there reader. We have transitioned our blogs to a new consolidated home at:

http://www.identitymine.com/forward

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/forward is the IdentityMine home to share our ideas, technology and design thinking. We always want to be forward thinking and being able to share that passion is our goal. Here you will find our thoughts on all things UX. Some will see the immediate light of day and others may simply be relegated to the future.

Fun with 300 million - Silverlight Install Numbers

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:00:18 GMT

I’m wondering if quoting install numbers is really worth it anymore. I know one of the benefits of Flash is that it is on virtually every machine. What is the threshold # that everyone is looking for? To me it should be around 50%. ...(read more)

Web 2.0 Expo – Thu/Fri in SF - #w2e

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:46:59 GMT

Wrapping up a few items this morning then heading over to SF for Web 2.0 expo. IdentityMine was invited to demo Microsoft Surface in the expo hall on Friday. Going to register and walk the hall today and grab some dinner with friends...(read more)

Wine Guide back in the UK

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:47:06 GMT

A few weeks ago IdentityMine was approached by our partners at EMC-Conchango about an upcoming UK focused Microsoft Surface press event. The idea was to give some of the press an opportunity to sit down and interact with Microsoft Surface while...(read more)

IdentityMine Touch Technologies – Gesture Engine

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:52:16 GMT

This morning IdentityMine released information on our IdentityMine Gesture Engine solution accelerator. At IdentityMine we have a variety of offerings to help customers get a jumpstart on their development projects. Those come in the form...(read more)

IdentityMine goes 10K

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:11:26 GMT

A few weeks ago I posted about the 10K Smart Coding challenge in highlighting Robby Ingebretsen’s Moustachr entry. Little did I know that a few folks at IdentityMine were hard at work developing a few more submissions. ColorClock 10K by Laurent...(read more)

Photosynth – The Moment

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:23:21 GMT

Even though this has been all over the news with CNN etc I couldn’t help but embed it here on brockett.net. I changed up the embed codes a bit to make it fit at 700 px wide. What a great event to really showcase the technology. Ever...(read more)

Microsoft REC and NRF

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:05:38 GMT

After the big blowout of CES last week it could be easy for everyone to shutdown this week regarding all things tech. At IdentityMine we see it as the second half of a two week game. Last week a few of us were at CES doing the meetings thing...(read more)

CES2009 – Let’s Meet Up

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:05:00 GMT

Next Wednesday, Jan 7, I’ll be heading over to Las Vegas for CES 2009. I’m going primarily to support a new partner who will be showcasing our software solutions on one of their new hardware platforms. A press release with that news will be...(read more)

IdentityMine on Channel9 - XAML Guidelines, Part 1

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:23:34 GMT

A few weeks ago Jaime Rodriguez from Microsoft stopped by our Pioneer Square offices in Seattle to interview Jonathan, Jared and Nathan about how we go about building our WPF projects. Not much to say here except GO WATCH IT. ...(read more)

MAX LiveBlog over Samiq Bits

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:38:39 GMT

I was going to liveblog some of this keynote but then looked over at Gilbert Corrales’ screen and he’s already got it covered. Here’s the link: http://bits.samiq.net/2008/11/live-form-sfo-its-max-keynote-day-1.html...(read more)

WPF – What’s the Tipping Point?

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:01:05 GMT

As you may have gathered from my posts and tweets I attended PDC2008 two weeks ago and there are a few things that jumped out at me as it pertains to the trends in our ecosystem. I’ve been a WPF guy since Avalon was announced back at PDC2005 and...(read more)

IdentityMine goes Twit – Live.Twit.TV

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:12:33 GMT

I’ve been a Leo Leporte fan ever since The Screen Savers on TechTV. I can even remember scheduling classes around their 4pm timeslot so that I could catch it everyday (yes this was before I had access to TiVo). After PDC they were talking...(read more)

PDC2008 – IdentityMine Coverage

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:59:14 GMT

We had a great time at PDC2008 and I was happy to see so many familiar faces. Below is a recap of some of the coverage we were able to pick up during the event. CNET Coverage Microsoft delivers the goods at PDC 2008 (by Elinor Mils, CNET, posted...(read more)

HP TouchSmart + Windows 7 – Setup Guide

Tech Reverie - Kurt Brockett's Digital Daydream » IM — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:10:28 GMT

Recently at PDC2008 IdentityMine showed a myriad of multi-touch interfaces running on Microsoft Surface and Windows 7. Our partners over at NextWindow hooked us up with a 42” touch overlay for one of our LCD monitors. The key to making...(read more)