[IxDA Discuss] Interactive Newspaper Demo

[Scott Bower]

Full demo:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20060914/nytimes-reader-screencast/

Here is a link to the 5 minute quicktime walk through (click on image 
in screen) of the NYT. It uses WPF and Windows Expressions (Sparkle), 
XAML, and C# and will only run on new machines with Vista.

Comments:
Microsoft did their homework, I am amazed at how well thought out and 
easy the whole process is through and through even though it is still 
beta. It takes minutes what took me hours or days with Open Source. If 
you are working on applications that have some sort of forced upgrade 
for your users (or museum installations), it surpasses most of the 
solutions out there. True rapid prototyping of untested design 
patterns.

Also, there are other news organization going far beyond this. The are 
keeping the project under wraps. MS and NYT are pushing these demos out 
there to generate buzz, but, some us have our heads down freeing up the 
news from the old newspaper and page by page click models.

What if you could run algorithms at 20 years of digital video archives 
and spread images across timelines effected by hyperlinked news events? 
What if links from old archived online stories become visualized  time 
influencers? We are one step closer to making some of the ideas from 
Walter Bender's News of the Future Group at MIT a reality. Exciting!

Scott

On Sep 18, 2006, at 8:05 PM, gretchen anderson wrote:

> [Please voluntarily trim replies to include only relevant quoted 
> material.]
>
> For those who were asking about online newspapers here’s a blog entry 
> about
> the demo I mention for the NYT. It’s using WPF (Windows Presentation 
> Format,
> formerly Avalon, I think) to deliver a richer experience.
>
> http://firstlook.nytimes.com/?p=22
> Only screen shots for the moment, but it says it’s launching soon...
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