September 2006

SharePoint Videos and Articles

by Ryan Lane on September 28, 2006

I’m learning to love SharePoint. I know, I know it’s one of those technologies that used to drive me crazy, but the MOSS 2007 beta has been very impressive. It’s an excellent tool for rapid prototyping and actually does work well as a team site for sharing information. The only challenge it still has is the learning curve to understanding how to get the most out of it. There’s where this site sharepoint-videos.com come in handy It has just what you would expect tutorial videos and articles about SharePoint.

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links for 2006-09-28

by Ryan Lane on September 27, 2006

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Wallop

by Ryan Lane on September 27, 2006

Wallop Screen shot
I started playing around with wallop yesterday. It’s a very interesting new social network platform that found it’s way out of Microsoft Research. Oh, happy birthday MS Research! I’m pretty excited about this product since it’s making a huge effort to push the envelope of user experience on the web. It’s still pretty rough around the edges but should be interesting to see how it will evolve. My only complaint at this time is that it’s all a little slow.

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Microsoft tries a new model for device team

by Ryan Lane on September 22, 2006

It looks like Microsoft is trying some new methods to help their UX teams create better results. This is an article about the office space that the Microsoft Mobile
Devices UXP team is moving into and how it will aid and inform their
design process. Check out the article: Microsoft tries a new model for device team

I can’t wait to see the results of this effort.

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links for 2006-09-17

September 16, 2006

Furniture — The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention (Library of Congress Exhibition) nice photos and articles about the Eames’ work (tags: Eames design furniture)

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Light Strokes OptiPaint

September 15, 2006

The Light Strokes OptiPaint system is a very interesting new way to interact with a design program. The system uses a video camera along with an their own custom optical system to detect contact and moving. You can select colors and effects and then paint with your fingers, traditional brushes, sponges, string, paper printed with [...]

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The new Zune’s UI is very attractive

September 14, 2006

I can’t wait to actually get my hands on one to play with. It’s not like Microsoft to produce something with a new and good user experience. Check out the video here:

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New version of CodePlex launches

September 5, 2006

Microsoft launched a new version of CodePlex today. It’s all about tags and tag clouds now. It’s an interesting site that is a lot like sourceforge.

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Programmed personal homepages over the last 20 years

September 5, 2006

Niall Kennedy is doing a series on personalized home pages and their history and it’s very nice indeed.

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VirtuSphere Redux

September 5, 2006

I’ve posted about the VirtuSphere a while back. I was browsing around on YouTube, because I like it better then working, and found this new video of the VirtuSphere in action. I want to play with this thing.

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