A comment from the venerable Stefano Baraldi over on my post about Bill Buxton's keynote prompted me to take a quick look around. Catching up with Stefano's blog, onTheTableTop, I see that tabulaTouch, blogged here previously, is coming to market shortly as Sensitive Table.
Stefano also provides a link to Natural Interaction who have more stunning videos of just how engaging this stuff can be.
This screen looks fantastic. If you don't see what the fuss is about, think what the implications could be for the form factor of the Nintendo DS, or the iPod. As they get bigger, which they inevitably will, imagine what that will mean for displays at home and at work. Bill Buxton is saying that large multi-touch displays will be cheaper to install than whiteboards. I have to agree.
a draft of some posts that you write and think "nah, if I publish that I'll get in trouble"?
I do. They might be rants or they might criticise something that's really not up for criticism, socially I mean.
I'm over in Paris right now, at XTech.
Interesting presentations, sessions and lots of interesting people.
Bill Buxton is on stage right now talking about how narrow the web is - The World Narrow Web.
Spent 24 hours (door-to-door) traveling over to Banff for the WWW2007 conference, and we've now been here for a couple of days. The standard of conversation (all the sessions bar the keynote have been very interactive) has been very good.
Update: check out Jeff's full reading list.
Over at Coding Horror Jeff Atwood has been cajoling developers to learn more about visual design and to learn a graphics tool. He's focussed on visual design in these two posts and I agree with him that these are critical skills for anyone doing anything with a visible UI.
Joel's talking about Microsoft's withdrawal of VBA in the Office Suite for Mac users.
Joel starts by explaining why VBA was strategic for MS:
The internet is a marvellous thing. As well as making such a vast amount of information available for legitimate use it also allows that information to be used to analyse infringing uses. There is plenty of anti-plagiarism software available for analysing text.
We've used the technique here at work during recruitment and during assessment of third party work. We had one applicant present a multi-media piece as his own "award winning" work when the award site clearly gave someone elses name as the creator - someone we know in that specific instance...
ex-CIO of Egg, ex-CEO of Lost Wax and my ex-boss (at internet bank Egg) Tom Ilube has done a great podcast for us at Talis, talking about his current venture, Garlik.
Garlik's a great service, try it out - I was surprised by just how much it found about me.