brent phillips

NatGeo

brent — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:33:19 +0000

Are they weakening their brand? There is something authoritative and interesting about “National Geographic.” Perhaps it’s insider jargon? Perhaps a desire to be more “2.0?”
Not everything needs to sounds like a web address…

sharpie culture

brent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:27:00 +0000

I caught a presentation on social media this week by Bert DuMars, VP of e-Business and Interactive Marketing for Newell-Rubbermaid. Among other things, they make Sharpie Pens…Apparently Sharpies aren’t just for labels anymore. Check out the bike below and check out sharpieuncapped.com for more creative…or flickr to get to the pics…

msn’s makeover

brent — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:02:47 +0000

Check it out here: http://www.msn.com/preview.

I particularly like the social feed feature…

Silverlight Altitude-Weight Calculator

brent — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:03:31 +0000

When I was in the mountains a few weeks back, a question came up about how altitude impacted the measurement of body weight on a scale. Here is a simple Silverlight app that demonstrates a change in weight measurement based on two altitudes (negligable).

What I do…

brent — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:59:39 +0000

Over the past few months, I, and several colleagues, hosted a number of CIO roundtables around the country for the Microsoft-Novell interoperability partnership. Here’s a video clip we pulled together…I’ve posted a full set over at our youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/moreinterop

relaxing

brent — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:07:40 +0000

Enjoying a week away at High Hampton Inn in Cashiers, N.C. Will post a few pics soon.

future knowledge ecosystems…

brent — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:10:24 +0000

http://www.iftf.org/iasp , interesting overview from researcher Anthony Townsend and team at the Institute for the Future. Discusses growth areas for economic development and technical innovation over the next 20 years. Sharp presentation here…

social medial tools

brent — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:54:30 +0000

Great overview from Maisha Walker at Inc. http://blog.inc.com/e-commerce/2009/06/a_guide_to_social_media_tools.html

gestures for the XBox…meet “Natal”

brent — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:35:08 +0000

This should be fun (and give the Wii – which I own – a run for its money). Gestures appear to be a rapidly growing new paradigm in UI control. The XBox is enabling full-body motion recognition plus speech/voice recognition. Check out the video to see it in action…

bing!

brent — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:11:20 +0000

Timely, per my last post. With myriad information sources that people sift through, context and reliability are becoming increasingly important to search – both on the web and in the enterprise. Common practice to date has been for a user to click through tens or hundreds (or more) search results of meta-tagged information trying to determine the best result based on their specific need. What we’re seeing with bing.com and Wolfram|Alpha is an attempt to move beyond simple search toward a more comprehensive decision support utility. Check out the bing overview here…