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Mix 08 Day 3 – Take your content mobile with Expression & Zumobi

ZumobiZumobi is a new free mobile widget application that’s from a company spawned from Microsoft Research. They did the whole presentation in Expression and didn’t use Powerpoint :-)

  • The Zumobi application was for organizing content in a easy to find, attractive format mostly in 4 x 4 grids.
  • Zumboi uses XML & JS for building the widgets
  • The SDK and Emulator are free to download and use along with Runtime
  • They don’t use a Windows Emulator but a Zumboi runtime which runs in the PC to give a full experience
  • The differences between platforms (J2ME, Windows Mobile, Palm) on Scripting, Display, etc are all abstracted by Zumobi Runtime

Mix 08 Day 3 – Future of Advertising

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I was in the talk by Eric Picard (Director, advertising technology strategy at Microsoft) on the future of advertising. It started with how much potential there is to optimize and automate the advertisement buying/selling process in the industry and just for online, but for TV, Print and other media. Eric talked about how the future systems will be more open, interconnected and automated. He touched upon the future where disposable surfaces for video, OLED and more will come, also with the Nano technology how battery life with be extended and revolutionized.

Eric pointed out to a video on the Internet showing Nokia’s concept technology using Nano technology, cool video check it out below: