May 2007 Entries

That band from Mix07

Technorati Tags: Mix There was a very interesting band playing at the keynotes on Mix07, I couldn't find the name of them at the time.  But I have now: "Moonpenny Opera" Some links http://www.myspace.com/moonpennyopera http://on10.net/Blogs/laura/mix-07-musical-interlude-moonpenny-opera/ http://www.talkingpictures.org/Moonpenny.html Cheers Ian

Conversations via technology

Mix07 had a panel discussion on what they called "two way conversations" (can a conversation be one way?) that at the time was reasonably interesting.  However it is one of the sessions that has stayed with me and got me thinking after the event. There was an initial discussion on closed vs open - which boiled down to open APIs are good at facilitating communities.  I like to try and compare these concepts to the real world - and I guess an open API is a way of providing new places for unfamiliar people to meet and talk, so for me that might a...

The most interesting discussion at Mix 07

The discussion at the end of the second keynote from Robbie Bach titled: "Is marketing dead?" is fascinating listening.  That was not what I expected, in fact there was a beer waiting for me and I had no real intention on staying on after all the glossy presentation stuff.  But I couldn't leave... This was mostly down to the brutally honesty comments from Andrew Rashbass (publisher and MD of The Economist), who had certainly not read the script, and he brought a refreshing honesty to what was, admitably, a fantastic conference, but one in which you can easily get swept away with...

Silverlight Mindmap in Silverlight!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Mindmap Wow - there has been a great response to my humble Silverlight Mindmap post. The most interesting being a fantastic tool from Michael S. Scherotter that converts MindManager maps to silverlight! Michael converted my map to silverlight and has hosted it on the new free silverlight streaming service. You can see the silverlight version on the map here. Cheers Michael! Ian * UPDATE * I have updated the map a little and also hosted it myself here as a silverlight app .

Silverlight Mindmap

First stab at a Mindmap of resources for Silverlight.  I'll probably update this in time, but hopefully will be of use to some of you. Open it here Cheers Ian ---------------- * UPDATE * Added a few extra links to the map (now version 1.1) You can also download the full MindJet MindManager version here (a free viewer is available here)

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