This is a cool demo of how the Zune is actually used to share songs. Watch as Duncan bridges the gap between Canada and the US by sharing a song with his friend Brian. Poetry in motion it is. Yes, and I must point out that I did my part by providing the Zune icon for the Zune download …
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Sampy just posted the video he took of our team while we were posting the last update to 10. We were a bit giddy at getting this update at the door and I think that comes through in the video :)…
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After a few emails, interviews, a podcast and one lengthy debate on Channel 9, we've released a video announcing Rory has joined the Channel 9 team. I'm excited to have him join the team and I actually drew up a storyboard for the video. Well actually I took Rory's interview comic and added te…
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Last week we updated the Microsoft 10 site. Jeff talks about it here, mainly covering the fact that the code update was written to prepare for the conversion of Channel 9 and reach the goal of one code base running on multiple sites. We've simplified the architecture down to four major c…
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Actually I'm not sure when the new animation went live, but I really like this one. I saw few comments putting the first one (giant and little man sharing a bunny), but I think this one may get a better reception. You can't beat flaming, head-banging bird :) Both animaitons …
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I know this happened back in June and was covered everywhere, but I was just reading someone giving a metaphor for the Internet and this one will always be stuck in my head: Series of tubes was a metaphor used by United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), to describe the Internet in a June…
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Jeff blogged and posted a video on 10 today about the lead role for the 10 team that we are hiring for. I think it could be a really great position for someone is into what we're looking for. Below is a section from the synopsis:
We are looking for a rare bird to help s…
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Last week the Windows Client team launched shell: revealed, a new blog covering their work on the core user interface of Windows. Which has definitely become a hot topic with the advent of Windows Vista upon us.The home page is interesting as any home page that tries to bub…
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Well this is fun, just running around planting Oxite blogs. David Shadle (designer of the famous Channel 9 guy) who runs next.design.now has ben patiently waiting for me to provide a better setup for him for a while. Previous to this update I was actually hand-editing his …
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Duncan Mackenzie is now running his blog off of the Oxite codebase we put together. Its interesting when you are preparing code to be themeable and reusable. "Oh, did I hardcode my name in there..." We've got a few UI enhancement ideas to work through (Duncan's month archive list go…
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This is a lot of fun. I imagine its what a drawing program would run like on the DONTCLICK.IT operating system. …
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I just noticed that the new documentation for developing Sidebar gadgets on Windows Vista RC1 is up and live on MSDN - Object Model Reference Dev Overview. I'm looking forward to working on some gadgets for Channel 9 and 10. A mini application using simple languages like JavaScript and H…
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The last time I updated my blog's code base, I started from scratch (again) and my mindset was "keep it simple". And a very simple one-person blog appeared. Well it was a little too simple, no trackbacks, referrals and no automatic pinging of blog services like ping-o-matic…
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