PDC 2008 - Los Angeles - Be there...
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I noticed that the PDC 2008 site has now gone live today. I think that this year is going to be a really exciting year with Ray Ozzie doing the keynote (and probably talking about cloud services like Mesh, Software plus services (think Office Live, SkyDrive etc).
And with all the buzz around technologies that are out there in beta or further, Developers must be champing at the bit to attend. All the developers here in the office would much rather go to PDC than our internal training conference in July.
So why is the PDC so important to you as an IT Pro? I've put together a list of some popular buzzwords and tried to explain them in IT pro terms that you can use to explain to your (non Developer) boss, why these are so important to your business - and why you need to go to PDC
Deep Zoom. Go deeply down into a photo and watch as the blurred image gets clearer and clearer in front of your eyes. That's all happening server side too. Check out the Hardrock cafe site for a great example. It's got an Easter Egg too. To get to the Easter Egg in Hardrock, just click into DeepZoom anywhere, then hit Ctrl-V, and it’ll take you to the correct location. Scroll out from there. Amazing (thanks Marc)
Deep Zoom Composer. The ability for you to create your own photo montage and with a bit of XML knowledge, link all of your photos up and post them onto the web, to create your own type of Photosynth Experience. James has uploaded one of his own compositions here - and blogged about it if you want more information
Mesh - Devices connecting and syncing together over the net so you can access your files from anywhere - from any device. You can get the information from your home PC from anywhere - all securely
Photosynth The ability to stitch photos together for a virtual tour. have a look around
Trafalgar square in London
Popfly Create a mashup of two or more sites by dragging and dropping.
SkyDrive - storage of files in the cloud. Log in with your passport address
Virtual Earth - look at where I work :-) Birds eye view is just amazing. That's the window behind my desk...
So lots of stuff that the developers can get their teeth into. Join the Facebook group, or read about what's happening on Twitter, and have a look at the photos on Flickr
...Which is all I'll be going to be able do unfortunately as I'm not a developer so I won't be allowed to go. Grr.
Roll on TechEd Orlando next week though...
