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Liveblogging Renee James IDF 2009 Keynote
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on September 23, 2009 at 8:59 am
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I'm back! This morning I'll be posting notes and links of interest during the keynote of Renee James, Intel VP and head of the Software and Solutions Group. Similar to how I liveblogged yesterday's Paul Otellini keynote, I'll be updating this post frequently during the keynote, adding information and links to sources, as well as [...]
Category: Events
Liveblogging the IDF 09 Day 1 Keynotes
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on September 22, 2009 at 8:04 am
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Most of our team is down in San Francisco for IDF 09. I'm here at our orbiting headquarters (OK, not orbiting, but in Oregon :-) watching the real time coverage from all the usual places (Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.). I'll be updating this post over the course of the keynote with links to people and updates [...]
Category: Events
Google Earth Adds Oceans; Tommy’s Games; Google Tasks on iPhone
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm
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Time for your regularly scheduled list of stuff that I've found interesting in the last day or so... Google Earth 5.0 Adds Oceans, More Google Earth got updated to version 5.0 today, and gained a couple of nifty features: 3D imagery of ocean floors, historical imagery, which lets you see how an area has changed over time, [...]
Category: Cool Software, Gaming
iStat for iPhone, Remotely Monitor Macs, Too
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on January 28, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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iStat is a popular app/Dashboard widget for Mac OS X users that shows you things like how much your CPU cores are being utilized, how much memory you have free, network traffic, etc. Now, Bjango brings us an iPhone version that shows you similar things on your phone: Nifty, but not incredibly useful. Although it is [...]
Category: Cool Software
How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on November 19, 2008 at 1:31 pm
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I'm writing this up to help the bloggers and other people on Intel Software Network who create stuff online (videos, etc.) get their "stuff" more visibility, by getting more sites to link to it and talk about it. I originally posted this over on my personal blog - there are some good comments there already. [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
World of Netbooks: Interview with Jon Ramvi of the Ubuntu Eee Project
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on October 24, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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While I was trying different OS options on the Eee PC 901, I spent some time with Ubuntu Eee. It's not an official Ubuntu/Canonical project, but rather a community driven custom distribution with some Eee-specific features and tweaks. It's quite nice, and very functional. While I was playing with it testing it, Jon Ramvi, Ubuntu Eee's [...]
Category: Mobility, Open Source
The World of Netbooks - an Introduction
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on October 16, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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If you run with an even slightly geeky crowd, you've probably heard of these "netbook" things. Maybe even seen one or used one. They're those smaller-than-normal laptops, sporting 9 or 10 inch screens, diminutive keyboards, and able to drop into a large purse or small bag. The Asus Eee PC, MSI Wind, Dell Mini Inspiron [...]
Category: Mobility
SIGGRAPH, Larrabee, and The Future of Computing
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on August 11, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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I'm in Los Angeles for the SIGGRAPH conference. I'm here to look for and write about interesting stuff, and help with a blogger event that Intel is hosting tomorrow to introduce some of the engineers behind Larrabee (more on that in a bit). You can check out what Intel has going on at SIGGRAPH this [...]
Category: Academic, Events, Parallel Programming, Software Engineering, Visual Computing
Bit Stories 2008-07-02: Recording Screwups, Moblin.org, Linux, MIDs, and NetMeeting
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on July 3, 2008 at 8:30 am
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Here's this week's show! Have a listen, and check out the download/subscribe links and detailed show notes below. Click to play This week's show is only 30 minutes long and weighs about 28MB (it’s a 128kbps MP3). You can download the file directly, listen using the streaming player above, or (BEST OPTION!!1!) subscribe to the Bit Stories [...]
Category: Bit Stories, Mobility
BitStories 2008-06-27: Intel and Vista, Firefox 3, Snow Leopard, SSDs, FriendFeed, and More
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 27, 2008 at 3:47 pm
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Here's this week's show! Have a listen, and check out the download/subscribe links and detailed show notes below. Click to play play_blip_movie_1036864(); This week's show is about 47 minutes long and weighs about 42MB (it’s a 128kbps MP3). You can download the file directly, listen using the streaming player above, or (BEST OPTION!!1!) subscribe to the Bit Stories [...]
Category: Bit Stories
BitStories 2008-06-13: Josh and Brian Ride Again! iPhone 3G, Netbooks, and More
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 16, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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Hey, remember TinyPodcast? No? Well, Brian Jarvis and I (Josh Bancroft), two guys who happen to work at Intel, started doing a weekly podcast way back in 2004. Basically, the two of us geeked out about the latest mobile devices, cool software, and technology news and rumors, and recorded it. It was moderately popular, and [...]
Category: Bit Stories
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Reading from the Intel Cookbook
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 10, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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The Apple WWDC 2008 keynote has come and gone, and my wild speculation about what Apple might say about the next version of OS X, 10.6 code named "Snow Leopard" (and affectionately christened "Snot Leopard" thanks to a typo during my WWDC liveblogging ;-) ), that it would be announced as the operating system for [...]
Category: Mobility, Parallel Programming, Visual Computing
Exclusive: 23 minutes of hands-on with the Lenovo and Aigo Mobile Internet Devices
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 15, 2008 at 1:30 pm
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OK, so I'm a couple days late, and I know I've been teasing you with photos and video "appetizers", but I hope the quality/content of these videos makes up for it. While I was in Shanghai, China last week for the Spring 2008 Intel Developer Forum, I stayed a few extra days to work with [...]
Category: Events, Mobility
An Appetizer: Video of the Lenovo and Aigo MIDs at Intel Shanghai
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 8, 2008 at 2:49 am
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I'm working on the video I shot while I was at the Mobility Software Lab at Intel Shanghai yesterday, getting some face time with the Lenovo and Aigo Mobile Internet Devices. I posted the photos late last night (thank you all for the comments!), and ever since then, you've all been chomping at the bit [...]
Category: Events, Mobility
World Exclusive: I got to play with the Lenovo and Aigo Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) at Intel Shanghai
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 7, 2008 at 8:38 am
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There are only about 20 Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) existent in the world. Most of them were in Shanghai last week for the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). 10 of them were in the Mobility Software Enabling Lab at Intel Shanghai, where I got special access today to shoot photos and videos, as well as some [...]
Category: Events, Mobility
Bonus Video: My First Hands-On with a MID (Mobile Internet Device)
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 3, 2008 at 9:56 pm
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A few days before IDF, I met Holly from Intel via an email thread on who was going to Shanghai to blog, etc. She let me know that there was going to be a MID (Mobile Internet Device) photoshoot at some point, and invited me to come, shoot video, and check it out. Well, it [...]
Category: Events, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility
More Video from Shanghai: Josh's IDF Video Diary
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 3, 2008 at 8:40 pm
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Here's another collection of video clips from the two days of IDF Shanghai. Highlights include a look around the IDF venue (Shanghai International Convention Center), the Huangpu riverfront at night (gorgeous!), a peek at Chinese TV in my hotel room, a look at what websites are blocked in China and which aren't, some "man on [...]
Category: Events, Intel® Software Network 2.0
A few iPhone photos from Shanghai
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 3, 2008 at 2:43 am
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It's been a whirlwind two days. IDF just got over, and for the last two days, I've been shooting video of keynotes, sessions, demos, and other interesting stuff. Since all my video gear is kinda heavy to lug around, I haven't bothered taking my Nikon D40 DSLR with my, to take many photos. Now that [...]
Category: Events, Intel® Software Network 2.0
Video: Josh's Shanghai Walkabout
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 1, 2008 at 9:05 pm
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I've been in Shanghai for about a day and a half now, for the Spring 2008 Intel Developer Forum conference. I'm here to shoot video of stuff that's interesting and useful for software developers and generally cover the event for Intel Software Network. Yesterday was "Day 0" of the event - badge pickup, etc., but no [...]
Category: Events, Intel® Software Network 2.0
InstaResearch: What the heck IS a MID anyway?
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 25, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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Had an interesting conversation today in a meeting with some of Intel's web marketing folks - the people who run blogs.intel.com/mobility, to be precise. We were talking about who actually had hands on experience with a "MID", and that quickly moved on to the question of defining what, exactly, a MID is. And perhaps more [...]
Category: Mobility
First Day in the new Intel JF1 Offices
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 17, 2008 at 1:38 pm
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Today is the Intel Software Network team's first day in our new offices in Intel's newly-remodeled Jones Farm 1 (JF1) offices (see this post for some background and pictures from the "open house" a couple of weeks ago). I was out of town last week at SXSW (and got sick while I was there, which [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Bye Bye Jones Farm 3!
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 5, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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Bye Bye cube in JF3!, originally uploaded by Josh Bancroft. I've "lived" in Intel's Jones Farm 3 (JF3) building ever since I started working here in 1999. Almost 10 years in the same building! That's included time as a "green badge" contractor, a "blue badge" full blown Intel employee (since 2000), time in the Localization group, [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Photos from Intel's new JF1 offices - future home of ISN Oregon
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 3, 2008 at 9:46 am
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Last year, Conan O'Brien visited Intel's offices in Santa Clara, California. He was, uh, not impressed by the endless maze of gray fabric cubicles, accented by gray walls and gray carpet. You can watch his bit on YouTube here (apparently NBC made YouTube pull the clip, so here it is from Clipstr - oops, not [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility
What do you consider to be a "REAL" blog post?
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 26, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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I had an interesting conversation with my coworker, Kevin this morning. Kevin is a wizard web developer, who writes the code that powers Intel Software Network, and is always playing with cool new Ajax/javascript ways to do thing, sharing tips and tricks he's learned, including code snippets. He's recently gotten into Twitter (he's @sourcecode over [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Intel launched a Mobility marketing blog, and I wrote the kickoff post
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 25, 2008 at 3:17 pm
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The folks in Intel web marketing have launched a new blog, all about Mobility: http://blogs.intel.com/mobility/ It's going to be all about upcoming cool stuff that's being released later this year - Silverthorne (which is getting its own super-secret new brand name, launching next week!), Diamondville, WiMAX, and other cool mobile stuff. I'm helping them out, giving them a [...]
Category: Mobility
Developer Contest: Win a Mac Book Pro in the Intel Threading Challenge
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on October 9, 2007 at 2:31 pm
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A little birdie brought me word of a new developer contest here on Intel Software Network - The Intel Threading Challenge! Do you love a good puzzle? Here's your chance to show off your threading skills. Our experts have come up with problem sets on topics from a sudoku puzzle to dorm room assignments. Take the [...]
Category: Open Source, Parallel Programming, Threading Building Blocks
Bit Stories: Cory Doctorow, "Privacy Isn't Dead -- Let's Not Kill It"
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on September 20, 2007 at 10:08 am
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Click To Play This episode of Bit Stories was recorded at the O'Reilly Executive Briefing held at OSCON 2007 - the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon, on July 24, 2007. At the briefing, Cory Doctorow gave a talk titled "Privacy Isn't Dead -- Let's Not Kill It", in which he talked about making software that [...]
Category: Bit Stories, Intel® Software Network 2.0
Bit Stories Video: "Junior" the Autonomous Vehicle
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on September 11, 2007 at 12:50 pm
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Click To Play The DARPA Urban Challenge is a contest to build an autonomous vehicle that can operate in a city setting - a car that can drive itself around town. Sound like science fiction? Stanford University is well down the path to achieving it with "Junior", a modified Volkswagen Passat wagon, powered by a pair [...]
Category: Bit Stories, Intel® Software Network 2.0
The Show is Go! Bit Stories Episode 001 - Start at Suck
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on August 15, 2007 at 2:36 pm
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Click To Play Welcome to Bit Stories! This is episode 001. You can say you were there at the very beginning. This episode is audio only, MP3 format, about 10 minutes long, and weighs about 9.5MB. You can listen using the player above, or download the episode directly at this link (right-click, save). The best way [...]
Category: Bit Stories, Intel® Software Network 2.0
ThreadingBuildingBlocks.org - Essential Links
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on July 23, 2007 at 2:27 pm
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ThreadingBuildingBlocks.org - Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. Threading Building Blocks is not just a threads-replacement library. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts [...]
Category: Parallel Programming, Threading Building Blocks
Hot off the press - Intel Threading Building Blocks
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on July 23, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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Hot off the press - Intel Threading Building Blocks, originally uploaded by Josh Bancroft. I spied the first copies I've seen of James Reinders' new book. "Intel Threading Building Blocks", here at the O'Reilly bookstore at OSCON. James did a session on threading this morning at Ubuntu LIve (taking place concurrently here at the [...]
Category: Parallel Programming, Threading Building Blocks
Blogger Dinner with Scoble in Portland this Thursday July 19
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on July 17, 2007 at 2:00 pm
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Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble of Podtech are going to be in town this week, and we set up an informal Blogger Dinner on Thursday night. It's going to be held at Jive Software's offices in downtown Portland. Jive and Intel Software Network (my group) are going to be sponsoring food and drinks, so come [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Party Aaron! Intel Software Network Face to Face Meeting
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on July 10, 2007 at 8:18 am
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Party Aaron!, originally uploaded by Josh Bancroft. We're in a multi-day Face to Face meeting of the Intel Software Network team. We had some great presentations yesterday, from the various teams we work with, and our [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Programming
Changes to the RSS Feeds for ISN Communities
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on July 5, 2007 at 10:39 am
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Hey, everyone. Just a quick post to let you know that there have been some changes made to the RSS feeds around our Intel Software Network communities. No action is required on your part - this is just FYI. The changes all happened on the back end, and should be tranparent. Did you know that besides [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Open Source, Parallel Programming
Tim Mattson on Parallel Computing at the Research@Intel Blog
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 28, 2007 at 8:50 am
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Just came across this post by Tim Mattson, Intel Parallel Computing guru, over on the Research@Intel blog: On the HW front, we are sweating the details. We know there will be many cores. We know the cores in a single processor may be different. We know there will be a scalable on-die interconnect and that the [...]
Category: Parallel Programming
Video: Hacking Intel and Web Services, presented in Second Life
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 27, 2007 at 3:00 pm
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Click To Play This video is about 40 minutes long, and weighs about 56MB. Quicktime format, 640x480. You can click to watch it, or right-click, save as this link to download it directly. Intel Software Network web coding guru Kevin Pirkl goes by the name ZombieBob Zenovka in Second Life, and he recently gave a seminar/how-to on [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source
Video: All About Intel Software College with Zander Sprague
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 25, 2007 at 2:38 pm
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Click To Play This video is about 5 minutes long, weighs about 10 MB, and is 640x360 Quicktime format. Click
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Photos from Research@Intel Day
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 20, 2007 at 8:46 pm
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I saw some amazing things today, from a car that could completely drive itself (really), to an 80-core 2 teraflop (that's 2 trillion operations per second) processor, and a whole lot more. It's amazing what they come up with in Intel Research labs - some of the smartest people on the planet, for sure. Here's a [...]
Category: Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming
Hey, Bloggers! Come to Research@Intel Day!
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 18, 2007 at 12:12 pm
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Are you a blogger (who isn't these days!)? Are you going to be in or near Santa Clara, CA on Wednesday, June 20 (Silicon Valley)? If so, I'd love to invite you to come to Research@Intel Day - a day long "science fair" event where Intel Research shows off the really cool, amazing, futuristic stuff [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility, Parallel Programming
BitStories
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 14, 2007 at 1:02 pm
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Welcome to the Bit Stories show - Audio and video stories about Really Awesome Software by Josh Bancroft and Intel Software Network!You can click on the player to watch or listen to the shows that are currently available, as well as past shows. The newest episode is always up first. Click on "Guide" then "Episodes" [...]
Category: Uncategorized
Great "Meet the Bloggers" event at Intel Software Network Island in Second Life yesterday
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 13, 2007 at 12:16 pm
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We had a great informal "meet the Intel bloggers" in Second Life yesterday. at the Intel Software Network sim/island in Second Life. Lots of people showed up, both Intel and non-Intel folks. Introductions were made, questions were asked and answered (most popular question from Intel people: "what do you guys want to see from us?" [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
InformationWeek's Mitch Wagner on the ISN Second Life launch
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 30, 2007 at 11:56 am
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Here's an article I came across in my search feeds by Mitch Wagner at InformationWeek on the Intel Software Network Second Life sim launch that happened yesterday (a video of part of the "keynote" here). He does a good job of covering what happened, including some quotes from Scott Apeland, my boss's boss. The second [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Video: Intel Software Network launch in Second Life - Elliot Garbus
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 29, 2007 at 9:03 am
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Click To Play Here's some quick video and audio of Elliot Garbus of Intel's Developer Relations Division (my boss's boss's boss ;-) doing a "keynote" at the beginning of our Intel Software Nework launch day in Second Life. The video is about 13 minutes long, weighs 22MB, and can be downloaded directly at this link (right-click, [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Intel Software Network launch in Second Life!
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 29, 2007 at 8:57 am
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Intel Software Network launch in Second Life!, originally uploaded by Josh Bancroft. Screenshot of Tim Mattson's presentation on "Science Fiction Computing". Come join us in world! Search for Intel Software Network, and check us out. We're all about developers, not marketing, so tell us where we suck, what we could and should do better, and we'll do [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
What's our problem? What do YOU hate about Intel?
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 24, 2007 at 8:51 am
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I'm in an ISN staff meeting right now, and we're talking about risk taking opportunities. Broad topic, and we all have lots of ideas (including me). In fact, I maintain a draft blog post that's basically a list of hairball wild ideas that I'd like to do at Intel. I added a few ideas from [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Intel Quad Core Chopper at Jones Farm 3
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 21, 2007 at 4:32 pm
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Click To Play The famous "Quad Core" chopper, created by Orange County Choppers for Intel, is making a stop at Intel's Jones Farm 3 building, in the lobby. I heard some people talking about it excitedly, and the first thing I did was grab my HD video camera and go down to shoot some video and [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Programming
Video: The lowdown on Silverlight from Tim Sneath
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 11, 2007 at 11:12 am
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Click To Play Last week at MIX07 in Las Vegas, Microsoft took the wraps off of it's new web platform, called Silverlight. There's been a lot of buzz about it, and some pretty impressive demos. I was at MIX07, and sat down with Tim Sneath, technical evangelist for Silverlight at Microsoft, and shot this 40 minute [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source, Parallel Programming
Update on the 915 Graphics WDDM Vista Driver Issue
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 7, 2007 at 11:26 am
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Wow, you guys are really persistent. :-) Since I posted a comment in one of the previous discussions about the 915 Graphics Vista driver issue, that I was going to talk to the graphics group about the possibility of releasing an open source and/or "beta" unofficial WDDM driver, to let you at least try to get [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility
For Companies, Having a Blog Isn't Enough Anymore
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on May 4, 2007 at 2:04 pm
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I've been thinking about what's going on in my corporate flavored blogging world, what cool stuff my team at Intel Software Network is doing now, and more cool stuff that's coming, and in general about companies and blogs and "getting it". And I came to a conclusion. It's not enough to have a company blog anymore. [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
MIX07 Keynote: All About Silverlight, including 2 new announcements
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 30, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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I'm back in my room for a bit after the MIX07 kickoff keynote with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, and Scott Guthrie, the guy in charge of Silverlight. The keynote was basically all about Silverlight and what it can do. It's Microsoft's new browser plug in that lets you do web apps, video streaming. [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Video: A World Without Software
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 12, 2007 at 10:43 am
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A little birdie sent me this YouTube link to a video that shows what the world would be like without software. Made me smile. :-)
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Video: Intel Laptop Gaming TDK at GDC2007
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 5, 2007 at 4:15 pm
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Click To Play This is a video interview I did with Rajshree and Sateesh, both of Intel's Software Solutions Group, right after their GDC2007 session on the Intel Laptop Gaming TDK. The video is about six minutes long, and weighs about 12 MB. You can download it directly at this link. The Laptop Gaming TDK is a [...]
Category: Gaming, Mobility
Video: Why Intel 915 graphics don't have a WDDM driver for Vista
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on April 2, 2007 at 2:12 pm
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Click To Play I get this question a LOT: "Why hasn't Intel released WDDM drivers for the 915 integrated graphics chipset? I can't run the fancy visual effects in Windows Vista, like Aero Glass, without one!" People hardest hit by this issue include virtually all Tablet PC and UMPC users, along with lots and lots of people [...]
Category: Mobility
Video: DeepFish Mobile Web Browser
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 29, 2007 at 8:34 pm
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Click To Play Crossposted at tinyscreenfuls.com - let me know what you think about posts like this! Here's a 17 minute video I shot today showing off Deepfish, a new mobile web browser from Microsoft's "Live Labs". The video shows how Deepfish doesn't try to squash normal-sized web pages onto your mobile device's screen, but instead lets [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility
Guest Bloggers
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 26, 2007 at 11:38 am
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We occasionally are treated with posts from guest bloggers here at Intel Software Network. Here's where you can find out more about them. Patrick Leonard -- Vice President, Product Development -- Rogue Wave Software Patrick is responsible for development of all Rogue Wave Software products, bringing a broad range of software and technology industry experience, including software [...]
Category: Uncategorized
I Dream of Community
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 22, 2007 at 7:08 am
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I wish wish WISH I could make every person in Intel Software Network read and understand this post about User Community and ROI over at Creating Passionate Users. It's not that I don't think they get it. Most if not all of them do. But Kathy Sierra NAILS so many things that I try to articulate, [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Download the "Destroy the Castle" Demo Code from GDC
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 13, 2007 at 10:16 am
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For those that were at the "Threading for Performance" all day tutorial session that Intel put on at GDC last week, this will look very familiar (and there were a lot of you!). More importantly, here's the elusive link to download the code for the "Destroy the Castle" demo, so you can continue to play [...]
Category: Gaming, Parallel Programming
Windows Vista Game Explorer, GDF files, and compatibility issues
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 7, 2007 at 10:38 pm
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I went to a GDC session this morning with Kim Pallister, who used to work at Intel, and now works in the Microsoft Casual Games group. I've read Kim's blog for a long time, and it was cool to get to meet him in person today. He presented with Chuck Walbourn, also from Microsoft, and [...]
Category: Gaming
Intel Laptop Gaming TDK at GDC
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 7, 2007 at 10:19 pm
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This morning kicked off the first "official" GDC sessions, and I was there bright and early at 9:00 AM with Sateesh and Rajshree from Intel for the session going over the Intel Laptop and Mobility TDK. First, Rajshree talked about the challenges and needs of gamers using laptops - how to know when your battery is [...]
Category: Gaming, Mobility
GDC Report: Threading for Performance tutorial
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm
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Yesterday, day 2 of GDC, I sat in on the day long "Threading for Performance" tutorial put on by Paul Lindberg and Brad Werth of Intel. They went over the details needed of taking a completely "serialized" application, where everything has to wait for the thing before it to complete before it can happen, and move [...]
Category: Gaming, Parallel Programming
Game blogs that are covering GDC
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 6, 2007 at 11:27 am
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There's so much going on here at GDC that there's no way one person can take it all in, let alone cover and report on it all. But there are dedicated bloggers and journalists that are doing a great job of tracking what's going on here: Gamasutra - Gamasutra is kind of the "official" coverage of [...]
Category: Gaming
GDC Day Two Morning Report
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 6, 2007 at 10:58 am
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Day Two of GDC has begun. The first two days are mostly all day tutorial workshops, etc. The expo floor, keynotes, and detailed sessions begin tomorrow. I'm sitting in the Intel-sponsored "Multithread your Game" tutorial session right now. The place is packed - they had to set up chairs in the back and along the [...]
Category: Gaming, Parallel Programming
What do YOU want to see from GDC?
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on March 5, 2007 at 12:54 pm
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I'm at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week, to cover the event for ISN. I'll be blogging, taking tons of photos, doing audio interviews, and shooting HD video of interesting stuff. I'll be posting it all back here, on the ISN blog. So the question is, what would YOU [...]
Category: Events, Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0
What could Intel Software Network do to Surprise you?
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 28, 2007 at 9:07 am
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In a good way, of course. Post a comment and let me know - no limits, be creative! This is a chance for you to influence our direction. Don't miss out! :-)
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
One way to get blog attention, and how to recover
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 26, 2007 at 9:56 pm
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(reposted from my blog, TinyScreenfuls.com) I was behind on reading my ISN-related feeds today, including some search feeds I have that alert me whenever someone links to our blogs. What I stumbled across was a quite a flurry of activity involving one of our ISN bloggers, Clay Breshears, reposting one of his own posts from 2003 [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Programming
Someone likes what we're doing
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 23, 2007 at 8:09 pm
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It was nice to run across this little bit of praise for what we're doing here at ISN in some of my search feeds this morning: Intel has hired a Social Media Evangelist. His name is Josh Bancroft and he'll be working for Intel Software Network a community suite*, ... I hereby declare that Intel is a [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
AMD dips a toe into Second Life
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 16, 2007 at 11:27 am
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I saw this morning on my feeds that AMD has launched an island in Second Life, AMD Dev Center, as part of their "developer outreach" program. They've got an auditorium and display hall, and they're sponsoring a "treasure hunt" for developers, with a nice Dell computer as the prize. I haven't logged in to Second Life [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Great discussion on the Web 2.0 TDK over at Ajaxian
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 14, 2007 at 11:25 am
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Ajaxian.com is one of the most well known blogs for "web 2.0" development - AJAX (obviously), web services and apps, etc. I noticed a thread over there this morning talking about Intel's Web 2.0 TDK: Have you ever wished that you could getPercentRemaining() to find out the battery charge left in a users device, or getProtocolRateTx() [...]
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility, Open Source
Video: What the heck "web 2.0" really means
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 13, 2007 at 3:03 pm
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You've all heard the term "web 2.0" thrown around, but how many of you really know what it means? Like in a form that you could describe to your non-technical aunt or grandmother? Here's a terrific video from a professor at Kansas State University about the evolution of text, digital text, hypertext, and now, this nebulous [...]
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Gettting philosophical
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 13, 2007 at 10:00 am
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This is also intended as an example for other ISN bloggers to see how to embed an image. And because bLaugh is hilarious. Coming up: embedding video in a post.
Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0
Welcome to the new ISN Blogs!
By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on February 12, 2007 at 1:04 pm
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If you're here, then you're at our new and improved (completely revamped, really) blog environment. The link is the same - intel.com/software/blogs - but we've moved to WordPress, and made some other changes to make the Intel Software Blogs more readable and usable, both for you, the readers, and for the authors as well. Who the [...]