Scott Hanselman

Oh yeah. That is totally awesome. Note that you can subscribe (in iTunes or your favorite aggregator) to their videopresentations and get them automatically to your machine as more and more get published.

I could make a list of my favorite talks, but it would be just too long. Hans Rosling's talk on MindGap and world health is worth mentioning though.

/johan

Too bad the conference is already sold out, both this year and 2008. A similar (yet smaller) conference is <a href="http://www.pinc.nl>PINC</a> (People Ideas Nature Creativity). They've had some interesting speakers over the years.

One cool thing to note is that the SeaDragon technology will ship in Silverlight - so you'll be able to take advantage of that broadly.

Scott, that's fantastic, I was just searching for the answer to the question of whether Silverlight would support SeaDragon technology. Great news!

Imagine applying the same idea of navigation of photos to locating all users in the world that are watching the same movie at the same time that you are? Then you can get that community experience of having shared watching the season 1 finale of 24 for the first time, with others who are also newbies. Commercial breaks would be opportunities to chat about something that happened. I guess by taking snapshot in time of the frames of whatever someone is watching, especially through Silverlight Streaming services would be easy enough and then use SeaDragon and other Photosynth technology to link related frames which gives you users in time that also watched that video, and when. So the problem was that you watch something cool but have no one to laugh with about it ... it's cooler to talk about something someone just watched an hour ago than last year, for instance, so where are those people, pop them in and out of my instant messenger life just long enough for us to share that moment, so to speak.

This may also be great for code searching ... often you are looking for abstractions so that's the higher resolution, you can actually visually see structure in code that is similar, yet serves an entirely different purpose and collerate related code based on structural simularity.

Oh yeah, when I get an error message on screen, take a screen shot and search the world for it, find a match and a trail to the resolution. So many possibilities.