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October 11, 2006
Microsoft Spark UX Summit
Microsoft just put on an interesting summit bringing together some very different types of people into the same room for a discussion about user experience and software architecture. Jacob Nielson from the Nielson/Norman Group was there, as was Grant Skinner and thought leaders from Adaptive Path, Ovum, Gartner, Yahoo!, Oracle, Rosenfeld Media, Microsoft, Frog Design, and others.
Some of their conversations are recorded on Adam Richardson's blog:
Adam Richardson's Blog - Thoughts on Microsoft Spark UX Summit
as well as on the adaptive path blog and
Simon Guest's blog.
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Free Online Training for WPF and .NET 3.0
So for a limited time (until Vista ships), Microsoft Learning is offering three free 2-hour "premium clinics" for .NET 3.0 (including WPF). The course is called "Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005". Note that these are targeted at developers and architects. I haven't taken a look at these yet but the price is certainly right...
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October 5, 2006
work :: thirteen23
The folks at thirteen23 have built some really cool little apps using the latest and greatest tech. You'll need Vista RC1 or .NET 3.0 RC1 to run these. The two things I find most interesting about these: they are really well designed and they blend the power of the desktop and the connectivity of the web. One app is a flickr browser and another is a netflix manager/browser. Cool stuff--check it out!
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