IdentityMine HealthCare Product Selector for Microsoft Surface

Great article from uihero regarding the IdentityMine presence at TechEd this year. Well done Jason! 

I especially appreciated the context around the IdentityMine effort as we supported the Surface team highlight the release of Surface SP1 within an accelerated timeline.

The HealthCare Product Selector IdentityMine built proved to be a testament to both Microsoft Surface SP1 and the IdentityMine Product Selector Solution Starter. Well done team! 

FYI - since our application leverages the IdentityMine Product Selector you can expect it to be available on both Microsoft Surface and Windows 7.

Jonah Sterling Joins IdentityMine as Creative Director

IdentityMine welcomes Jonah Sterling to the team! (Official Press Release) Although relatively new to IdentityMine I’ve had the privilege of working and interacting with Jonah quite a bit over the last several days. It’s clear that Jonah is going to make a positive impact on the unique challenges IdentityMine faces on a daily basis.

Although Jonah loves “shiny things” he’s very much driven by the scientific aspects presented in UX challenges. He’ll fit in nicely as we very rarely get the request to simply make something look pretty. Rather, the requests are more like: “Can you get 1000 pages of data translated into a single interactive page of information?” or “Can you coordinate the interactions of four people standing around a Microsoft Surface table?” or “Is it possible to make Windows 7 do a pinch, rotate and flick gesture at the same time?”

Jonah’s diverse background ranging from Taco Bell toy design to TommyBahama.com web re-design will bring some fresh and creative ideas to our UX challenges.

Again... Welcome Jonah!

IdentityMine at MIX09 – 10K challenge

Quick shout-out to some friends who submitted entries for the 10K challenge… Yes that’s my personally best Verdant score! I thought I was pretty cool until I found out some green-thumb scored 18K.

Karim Hernandez – Verdant
Jobi Joy – Twitter Search
George Phillip – WPF Word Game
Dr. WPF – JAGS 10K
Robby Ingebretsen – MOUSTACHR
Laurent Bugnion – ColorClock 10K

Nice job on your submissions guys! Don’t forget to MIXTIFY.

XAML Guidelines from the experts

Jaime Rodriguez and Adam Kinney... Thanks for the visit. Well done Jonathan Russ, Jared Potter and Nathan Dunlap.

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/XAML-Guidelines-Part-1/

First Ever Production Microsoft Surface in the UK / EMEA

For those of you who read my blog regularly you might be sick of my “First Ever” series. (First ever WPF, First ever Silverlight, First ever Surface) To that I say… Cut me some slack. I want at least one more “FIRST EVER”!

(FYI – I’m moving on to “First Time Ever!”)

Our understanding is that IdentityMine was the first to bring Microsoft Surface to the UK public via the Tesco London and Bristol Wine Club Fair events. This was a fantastic experience for us as we shared a custom IdentityMine Microsoft Surface application with a non-technical audience. As you will see in the video below the response was fantastic and entertaining to boot. Enjoy!

Windows 7 + Microsoft Surface = Success at PDC2008

What a fantastic showing for IdentityMine at PDC this year. So many people to thank. Between the demo development, IdentityMine website update, press releases, logistics and booth support I could literally list all 70 members of our team as contributors. Thanks everyone!

A special highlight this year was an application we built to show off our unique design and development capability on emerging platforms. Take a look at an Event Photos application we built for PDC2008 using Microsoft Surface, Windows 7, NextWindow and some Secret Sauce from IdentityMine:



More on our Windows 7 Secret Sauce (below):

Welcome Lu Silverstein! – Bye, Bye old Role.

Lu Silverstein will be officially joining IdentityMine today as our SVP of Products and Services. Wait a second… that’s my role.

Thus far I’ve been focused on the delivery side of the IdentityMine products and services business. Since officially taking the role of SVP of Products and Service back in early 2007 we’ve shipped three product offerings under the blendables brand and have several service offerings in the WPF, Silverlight and Surface space. However, as these emerging technology ecosystems grow, so must our ability to deliver.

Lu Silverstein has been part of Surface Computing at Microsoft Corp. since September 2003. Silverstein has worked with Microsoft for ten years on a variety of new-category products. His experience growing teams at Microsoft will be invaluable to IdentityMine as we move to take our business to the next level. Again, welcome Lu!

What will I be doing? IdentityMine does some amazingly fantastic things. The problem is… Very few know about it. In addition, we need to transition from an “order taking” to “self directed” company. Meaning - thus far we have yet to build a sales team which targets industries and associated customers that are ideal for our offerings and objectives. Thankfully, as of today we have a long list of very relevant customers. However, as the ecosystem grows it will make sense to be strategic about where we focus our delivery mechanism.

In my new role as SVP of Sales and Marking it will be my responsibility to make the above adjustments. Although today is my first official day on the job, in the background I have been working with Kurt Brockett (Director of UX Evangelism) and Craig Jaris (Director of Business Development) for the last couple months on these new challenges. Come see us at PDC 2008 and be sure to monitor identitymine.com to see how these new initiatives surface.