Chris JohnsonAll about Chris Johnson, SharePoint Products & Technologies & Other Stuff.SharedView is very cool.- March 28, 2008 Every once in a while I am blown away by something.&160; Not because it is the latest and greatest, but because it does what it does in such a simple and easy to use way... this is one of those things. SharedView is a very nifty little remote application sharing tool.&160; I was shown it yesterday when someone I was working with in New Zealand wanted to share an application with me. There are quite a few options out there for this scenario ... however what struck me was how simple it was to...http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/03/29/sharedview-is-very-cool.aspx Who's the kiwi- March 11, 2008 Saw this chap ask Steve B a question at Mix ... he sounded like a kiwi ... I mean he used "Wicked" and a bunch of other kiwi'isms. Great question too! :) http:visitmix.comblogsNewsWatch-Steve-Ballmer-and-Guy-Kawasaki-Livehttp://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/03/12/who-s-the-kiwi.aspx Floor cleaning robots...- March 6, 2008 We moved into our new house last week and it is a lot bigger than the last. That means lots of vacuum cleaning. So becoming more accustomed to being lazy in my old age ... there was only one thing for it... a Roomba & a Scooba. Floor cleaning robots from www.irobot.com. One for carpet, another that washes floors! Check out the video I took this morning of the little guy washing the floors... Very clever little things.http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/03/07/floor-cleaning-robots.aspx What do Mix 08, Silverlight, the Beatles & New Zealand all have in common...- March 6, 2008 At Mix08 today Hard Rock demo'ed their new web based Silverlight 2.0 application that allows a user to browse (in amazing detail) their catalogue of rock history. (http:memorabilia.hardrock.com) If you zoom into the middle left of the bigger image you will find a note from the Beatles to their security manager for one of their tours. It is written on a piece of paper from the hotel (Hotel St George) they stayed at when they played Wellington in New Zealand during their 1964 tour. ..http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/03/06/what-do-mix-08-silverlight-the-beatles-n... It almost made me cry too.... kinda...- March 5, 2008 Scoble recently had a wee cry about a new Microsoft Research project called World Wide Telescope that he saw prior to it being announced. See here: http:scobleizer.com20080227what-made-me-cry-microsofts-world-wide-telescope Well, today I got a chance to check it out at our TechFest (where Research show off all the stuff they do) ... and I have to say it is one very cool application. Mind blowing ... and for the right person ... is likely to make them very happy ... and possibly cry.http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2008/03/06/it-almost-made-me-cry-too-kinda.aspx |