brent phillips A few thoughts on the business of digital space…from my UI to yours…

Check it out here: http://www.msn.com/preview.

I particularly like the social feed feature…

When I was in the mountains a few weeks back, a question came up about how altitude impacted the measurement of body weight on a scale. Here is a simple Silverlight app that demonstrates a change in weight measurement based on two altitudes (negligable).

Over the past few months, I, and several colleagues, hosted a number of CIO roundtables around the country for the Microsoft-Novell interoperability partnership. Here’s a video clip we pulled together…I’ve posted a full set over at our youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/moreinterop

Enjoying a week away at High Hampton Inn in Cashiers, N.C. Will post a few pics soon.

http://www.iftf.org/iasp , interesting overview from researcher Anthony Townsend and team at the Institute for the Future.  Discusses growth areas for economic development and technical innovation over the next 20 years. Sharp presentation here…

Great overview from Maisha Walker at Inc. http://blog.inc.com/e-commerce/2009/06/a_guide_to_social_media_tools.html

This should be fun (and give the Wii – which I own – a run for its money). Gestures appear to be a rapidly growing new paradigm in UI control. The XBox is enabling full-body motion recognition plus speech/voice recognition. Check out the video to see it in action…

Timely, per my last post. With myriad information sources  that people sift through, context and reliability are becoming increasingly important to search – both on the web and in the enterprise.  Common practice to date has been for a user to click through tens or hundreds (or more) search results of meta-tagged information trying to determine the best result based on their specific need. What we’re seeing with bing.com and Wolfram|Alpha is an attempt to move beyond simple search toward a more comprehensive decision support utility.  Check out the bing overview here…

wolfram|alpha is worth a look and quite cool. With an emphasis on knowledge-based computing, the tool currently processes over 10 trillion pieces of information (which are continuously updated), handles free form, natural language query, and provides real-time results. You can also check out Stephen Wolfram’s overview of the tool here (or watch below).  As he states, the project is in its infancy but its interesting to think of the potential – a single computational resource to pool and report on a massive store of our collective intelligence. Alas, it cannot help me find my car keys…

this is great…