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Circle Of Media February 08

We’ve had another cool Circle of Media where we announced the DreamSpark program and a new partnership for Media Center with RTBF, a French spoken national broadcasting company. The full DreamSpark announcement can be found in an earlier post on this blog, if you want to know more about that. The partnership with RTBF includes an exclusive content delivery with podcasts and digital radio (and tv programs) for the Media Center platform through the very well-known interface. This content can be consulted if you set the Media Center settings to Belgium/French, and will extend pretty fast as new content will be made available on a swift pace.

I’ve also done a 10 minute demo of InkSeine, a brilliant application for tablet PCs (I also reported on that earlier). Luc Van Braekel and Maarten Schenk, two of the invited and present bloggers, both recorded the session and I’m posting Luc’s clip below, since Maarten’s cam wasn’t able to get the screen capped clearly.

Under normal conditions, the web search would go faster and I’d show off a little more features, but since there was no wifi available, I had to uplink my phone to 3G and connect to the internet over USB. That caused a small delay in the demo-flow but still, it went pretty well. Enjoy the demo. Thanks againfor the USB cable, Maarten :)

Video: Miel Van Opstal presents Microsoft InkSeine

pvw said,

February 20, 2008 @ 9:07 pm

Nice. A pity you didn’t invite me. Maybe the next time.

Miel said,

February 20, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

I double checked the list of invitees and indeed, it seems you slipped out. Terribly sorry about that! I’ll definitely include you next time!

Ken Hinckley said,

February 21, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

Thanks for demoing the application!

FYI if you create a new page while in the landscape (projection) format of your tablet, it will appear in landscape. You can use Select all (from the lasso menu) and then copy from the Portrait-formatted pages and then paste onto a landscape-formatted page for demo purposes. This is the one gotcha with using InkSeine for presentations (I talk about this some more on my blog at community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/).

What is really needed is a command to reformat a page from Potrait to Landscape but we haven’t gotten around to that yet. So many things to do, so little time!

One final thing to report: we’ve discovered a serious localization bug that may affect users who install outside of the US. A fix will be out next week. Details on the InkSeine blog

Miel said,

February 21, 2008 @ 11:59 pm

Thanks a lot for the input Ken! ;) I love what you did! Totally!

rtbf said,

May 15, 2008 @ 1:53 pm

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