Samm: heheh. Sorry, I've already gone too far. See ya on March 3rd!
Samm
· 1 year ago
No worries. I look forward to the video. But, now you've got me watching Sir Martin Reese's presentation from TED.
Cheers!
Duncan
· 1 year ago
Scoble, if you were a girl or gay we'd call you a cock tease.
Duncan
· 1 year ago
BTW why the 3rd when Mix proper starts on the 5th. That's the one thing I cant even guess about.
monk.e.boy
· 1 year ago
OMG I saw that stuff at Microsoft and it made me more emotional than you Scoble. I cried and my arm fell off it was so inspirational!!!!11!!one!!!
Please tell SlashTechDiggCrunchDot and the A listers, it is a slow news day and they may as well talk about my arm falling off (my left arm) because of all the shock (good shock) and emotion (a tear came out of my eye ball) and went down my face.
I hate to nitpick but I believe Facebook is closer to 400 last I checked (~2 weeks ago).
syed
· 1 year ago
Looking forward to the video!
Robert Scoble
· 1 year ago
Paul: good point. Zuckerberg told me three weeks ago that it was over 400. I figured that they've hired a few people in the last couple weeks. Everytime I'm at Facebook the lobby is full of people interviewing.
peteremcc
· 1 year ago
Hmm oh well,
you have to admit that Photosynth was a pretty logical conclusion from the info that you gave us and it's the only thing i've really been impressed about from Microsoft in a long time.
If it's as good as photosynth then great. If it's as good as you're saying, then excellent.
And i've had to rename my (now wildly inaccurate, but very logical) post:
I don't care about anything that can't be usable soon. Photosynth, Microsofts Big A$$ Table, whatever this thing is your talking about. It's irrelevent until it launches and is useful.
paul
· 1 year ago
Gossip bloggers abhor a vacuum....as long as they keep getting attention they'll keep making stuff up.
Owen Cutajar
· 1 year ago
I agree with Jeff above .. until the market (early adopters really) samples, tests and finds value in whatever it is .. it's not really important to the man in the street ..
Aarjav
· 1 year ago
Robert,
Sometime in 2004, way before smartphones with live traffic on maps were even on the market, I had the privilege of watching a prominent MSR researcher demo live traffic on his cell phone while visiting our research lab at a University not in Seattle. The sad thing is that I don't this technology ever made it to Windows Mobile phones before Google Maps had live traffic.
When I broached this topic with a professor who has worked with MSR pretty much from the beginning I was told that this kind of thing is the norm. MSR has the coolest technology but for some reason it rarely ever makes it to products and certainly not in time.
I hope this one works differently but I feel for the researchers who work hard to prototype things like these only to see competitors catch up and productize similar things before MSFT.
Ted
· 1 year ago
Ok, OK. It has to do with three-dimensional display. "Nuff said.
Andy
· 1 year ago
Slow news day at TechCrunch methinks!
jld
· 1 year ago
biztalk services ?
DMPR
· 1 year ago
Whoa - How many Microsofters (Microhoos?) called you to start backpedaling today? Yikes!
Robert Scoble
· 1 year ago
Jeff: I agree with you, sort of. Is CERN going to change your life? Absolutely. But will it be usable anytime soon? No. Even after the findings come out, the data shared there won't really be useful to normal people for quite some time. Of course that lab also spun out a small thing called the World Wide Web. Totally unexpected and totally huge.
Let's talk again on March 3.
Robert Scoble
· 1 year ago
Dave: no one asked me to backpedal. I just am seeing people take it into weird areas and see that I might have done some serious harm to something pretty darn cool.
Anonymous
· 1 year ago
Whatever it is...
I AM NOT INSTALLING SILVERSHIT!!1!
period.
syahidali
· 1 year ago
can't wait to see what is worth crying for.
Sprague D
· 1 year ago
Re: Microsofties complaining about too much attention being paid to one of their innovations, please. When was the last time they had that problem? They gave a tour to a *blogger*. And your heart's clearly in the right place, so you don't need to apologize.
Dan Guy
· 1 year ago
"This is just a service that inspired me and made me react emotionally, in a way that few things I see make me react."
You seem to fly off the handle emotionally every few days, so... This is either really good or yet another tornado of empty hype.
Robert Scoble
· 1 year ago
Dan: yup, you got a 50/50 shot there! :-)
Joao Pedrosa
· 1 year ago
Microsoft has major traction on the client-side/UI. I fear it will have something to do with this strength.
Perhaps it will be a new take on Mashups and widgets. 2d/3d can be used from the organization point of view. But a security sandbox comes first.
I fear it will make have use of .NET's features. :-)
It could reinvent the Web browser at the same time. Then again, maybe it shouldn't.
But having a heavy modern touch, and media touch, it could provide for some cool effects. It could make use of integrated browser widgets and RSS reader widgets or things like that, the user being able to customize it all.
By integrating cool features, it could in the soon future be integrated in the next versions of Windows. Think mobile or Windows 2010.
The appeal could have to do with allowing users to customize and organize in multiple ways. And it will have a huge media and Internet traction.
Robert Scoble
· 1 year ago
Joao: you're so far off it isn't funny. Sorry.
Shafqat
· 1 year ago
So you got excited about a new, innovative product. I dont see anything wrong with that. In fact, its nice to see people get passionate about something. I dont see what all the fuss is about.
BTW, I think being limited to two people does not limit the POTENTIAL of any team or their product. I know you didnt say it would, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Yahoo was started by two people, same with Google! Whether or not it lives up to the hype, I see nothing wrong with the hype itself.
Eric
· 1 year ago
Must have been a holodeck :)
Prokofy Neva
· 1 year ago
Oh! I know! they have a Second Life island. And they're making a widget. HTML on a prim! Finally! And not a moment too soon are going to put that up any minute. And yes, this will revolutionize virtual worlds.
They could call it Worlds for Windows. I will sell them that idea for $1.5 million. There. I'll be waiting for my check in the mail now, kthx.
LiquidBoy
· 1 year ago
we all need inspiration in our lives what with all the crap thats currently going on. I for one am waiting avidly for this announcement. Thx Scooble for raising awareness of this, you did what Microsoft would of paid over a million bux for...
Herschel
· 1 year ago
Hey, Robert, you said " I thought Tablet PC and Origami (and Vista) would be far more significant than they turned out to be (several people pointed that out, and they were right to do so)."
Well, you were right about the Tablet PC being a big impact technology, except it wasn't Microsoft's Tablet PC, it was Apple's. The iPhone is the X generation Tablet PC in my humble opinion.
Technology forecasting isn't a science anyway, so keep looking for us all.
Greg Birch
· 1 year ago
It's not the cool stuff at Microsoft I don't expect, it's how they trash the people that create it. Sorry to say it but the small teams that make cool stuff get eaten by bureaucratic bloat. I hope hope hope that changes, I really like Microsoft, it was so exciting growing up with that company close by and watching it grow. There WAS a time when everyone was excited about MSFT and what was coming NEXT but then Jobs took that...
Christopher Coulter
· 1 year ago
two people big and hasn’t yet shown very many people their work.
Well, not directly maybe, but my 'network' already (supposedly) knows, could goto the sky on it, but granted my word. But a few things to keep in mind, it's not a product release, they let other product teams do that, and from my drumbeat, it's more a conference demo of sorts, the "emotions" more from the "content" than the "technology" itself. How's that for pulling a Scobleish "talk-about-it-while-not-talking-about-it." ;)
That said, by hyping it you killed it. Everyone will look, but it won't meet expectations, nor the runaway speculations, except for the geeky cave-people that get "emotional" over Excel and Pagemaker.
Heh, too funny, hyping up a demo, not even a product release itself, slim-pickings there at Microsoft, eh? And even if Research makes good, the parent company will drop the ball, and even if (by some miracle of God) they don't drop the ball, the market won't take. And if the market takes (miracle #2), getting it to a decent Version 2 or 3, will require serious Xbox-like subsidization, and Bungie-like forceable buy-outs.
Montoya
· 1 year ago
So you don't work for Microsoft anymore and yet you are still causing them trouble? Can't you give them a break?
James O'Neill
· 1 year ago
Robert, saying who it was that showed you stuff allowed people to work out what area it was in.
Keeping to the letter of an embargo, but not the spirit of it can only have the effect of making people think twice before telling you anything. Not a good thing in your line of work.
Phil
· 1 year ago
Scoble and Microsoft. Who is using whom?
Karim
· 1 year ago
The thing I’m talking about is NOT anything you’ve seen Microsoft do before.
Snack food?
Though it would have to be really, really, REALLY good to wring a tear from my eye. We're talking Anton Ego, flashback-to-childhood good. You know, Proust's madeleines and all that.
William McKnee
· 1 year ago
Microsoft will present Windows Vista SP2 and SP3 immediately after rolling out SP1. A major leap forward is the decision to rename the fake administrator account to 'genuine advantage administrative account' which will be hidden by default and may only be retrieved by deleting registry entries as a halfpoweruser (hpu), which will be blocked by default and may only be unblocked by downloading admanpack (450Mb, webinstall only). New expensive courses are being set up so engineers can study their asses off figuring out how to log off, how to change their wallpaper and how to call Microsoft Customer Nag Service in case the machine gets locked entirely.
Minimum requirements for SP3: 8,6GHz or better triple core, 1Tb free memory, 5 extra harddisks, three NT4 recovery floppies, a floppydrive and a 50-digit personal private genuine advantage code, which will be put on a personalized webpage just once, right after your hundreds of dollars payment has been collected.
David Hanson
· 1 year ago
Was it IE8 running with full WC3 standards support?
Good grief, did nobody play Elite on their microcomputers 25 years ago?
Impressive, yes. I expect to see a new version of Elite using this technology. I expect Microsoft to go the extra mile (or should that be light year) instead of waiting for somebody else to do it.
And a lot of those images will be familiar to anyone who has bookmarked APOD. I also recall something similar (if perhaps innaccurate) at the beginning of the Hollwywood movie "Contact".
Get out of the house once in a while and you might realise the stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones. If WWT helps Americans realise this, so much the better for the rest of the world.
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Is it a blow up doll? I give up:)
Cheers!
if you were a girl or gay we'd call you a cock tease.
Please tell SlashTechDiggCrunchDot and the A listers, it is a slow news day and they may as well talk about my arm falling off (my left arm) because of all the shock (good shock) and emotion (a tear came out of my eye ball) and went down my face.
monk.e.boy
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
you have to admit that Photosynth was a pretty logical conclusion from the info that you gave us and it's the only thing i've really been impressed about from Microsoft in a long time.
If it's as good as photosynth then great. If it's as good as you're saying, then excellent.
And i've had to rename my (now wildly inaccurate, but very logical) post:
http://peteremcc.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/scobl...
I await with interest...
Sometime in 2004, way before smartphones with live traffic on maps were even on the market, I had the privilege of watching a prominent MSR researcher demo live traffic on his cell phone while visiting our research lab at a University not in Seattle. The sad thing is that I don't this technology ever made it to Windows Mobile phones before Google Maps had live traffic.
When I broached this topic with a professor who has worked with MSR pretty much from the beginning I was told that this kind of thing is the norm. MSR has the coolest technology but for some reason it rarely ever makes it to products and certainly not in time.
I hope this one works differently but I feel for the researchers who work hard to prototype things like these only to see competitors catch up and productize similar things before MSFT.
Let's talk again on March 3.
I AM NOT INSTALLING SILVERSHIT!!1!
period.
You seem to fly off the handle emotionally every few days, so... This is either really good or yet another tornado of empty hype.
Perhaps it will be a new take on Mashups and widgets. 2d/3d can be used from the organization point of view. But a security sandbox comes first.
I fear it will make have use of .NET's features. :-)
It could reinvent the Web browser at the same time. Then again, maybe it shouldn't.
But having a heavy modern touch, and media touch, it could provide for some cool effects. It could make use of integrated browser widgets and RSS reader widgets or things like that, the user being able to customize it all.
By integrating cool features, it could in the soon future be integrated in the next versions of Windows. Think mobile or Windows 2010.
The appeal could have to do with allowing users to customize and organize in multiple ways. And it will have a huge media and Internet traction.
BTW, I think being limited to two people does not limit the POTENTIAL of any team or their product. I know you didnt say it would, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Yahoo was started by two people, same with Google! Whether or not it lives up to the hype, I see nothing wrong with the hype itself.
They could call it Worlds for Windows. I will sell them that idea for $1.5 million. There. I'll be waiting for my check in the mail now, kthx.
Well, you were right about the Tablet PC being a big impact technology, except it wasn't Microsoft's Tablet PC, it was Apple's. The iPhone is the X generation Tablet PC in my humble opinion.
Technology forecasting isn't a science anyway, so keep looking for us all.
Well, not directly maybe, but my 'network' already (supposedly) knows, could goto the sky on it, but granted my word. But a few things to keep in mind, it's not a product release, they let other product teams do that, and from my drumbeat, it's more a conference demo of sorts, the "emotions" more from the "content" than the "technology" itself. How's that for pulling a Scobleish "talk-about-it-while-not-talking-about-it." ;)
That said, by hyping it you killed it. Everyone will look, but it won't meet expectations, nor the runaway speculations, except for the geeky cave-people that get "emotional" over Excel and Pagemaker.
Heh, too funny, hyping up a demo, not even a product release itself, slim-pickings there at Microsoft, eh? And even if Research makes good, the parent company will drop the ball, and even if (by some miracle of God) they don't drop the ball, the market won't take. And if the market takes (miracle #2), getting it to a decent Version 2 or 3, will require serious Xbox-like subsidization, and Bungie-like forceable buy-outs.
Keeping to the letter of an embargo, but not the spirit of it can only have the effect of making people think twice before telling you anything. Not a good thing in your line of work.
Who is using whom?
Snack food?
Though it would have to be really, really, REALLY good to wring a tear from my eye. We're talking Anton Ego, flashback-to-childhood good. You know, Proust's madeleines and all that.
Minimum requirements for SP3: 8,6GHz or better triple core, 1Tb free memory, 5 extra harddisks, three NT4 recovery floppies, a floppydrive and a 50-digit personal private genuine advantage code, which will be put on a personalized webpage just once, right after your hundreds of dollars payment has been collected.
Why is it that no one can keep a secret any more? More at http://www.davidarno.org/164
Impressive, yes. I expect to see a new version of Elite using this technology. I expect Microsoft to go the extra mile (or should that be light year) instead of waiting for somebody else to do it.
And a lot of those images will be familiar to anyone who has bookmarked APOD. I also recall something similar (if perhaps innaccurate) at the beginning of the Hollwywood movie "Contact".
Get out of the house once in a while and you might realise the stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones. If WWT helps Americans realise this, so much the better for the rest of the world.