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Posts Tagged ‘visitmix.com’
Opinion: The Beginning of The Archivist
A couple years ago, my friend irhetoric and I were chatting about Twitter, as we were at the end of building Flotzam, a social networking aggregator tool that collects and visualizes the ephemeral information floating around in the social sphere. In some ways, this ephemerality is beautiful: all this information swirls around us like leaves that appear and decay over time. On the other hand, if this information is valuable, capturing and keeping it could be useful.
Opinion: "Cheers to saying no"
I published a new Opinion today, which stemmed from a conversation Tami and I had about working with one potential client. I’ve been in this situation may times and it totally stinks. You’d like to get the work, you want to be nice, but you *know* that client is a total pain in the ass [...]
Opinion: “Transparency Yields Better Results”
I had a really hard time writing this Opinion piece for visitmix.com, and was truly thankful to have a great copy-editor hack it down a bit for me. Originally I was speaking about the fact that the recently released application, The Archivist, has been getting use in areas of academia and law, fields we hadn’t considered [...]
MIX Online Version Two-Oh!
We released a new version of the MIX Online site yesterday and hope you’ll check it out. Our content is much more easily discoverable and readable, and we have a new lab, Incarnate.
Incarnate: Find and use your avatar anywhere
You might have noticed the cool commenting system I’m using on this blog. At MIX Online, here at Microsoft, we’ve developed a new prototype called Incarnate. Incarnate is a system that allows readers of a blog to use their already-existing avatars from common social-networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and XBox Live. Let the [...]