Years ago, around the time of MIX06, I had a great conversation with a friend who was working on a design for the Microsoft Surface. He said he had to basically re-learn user interface design during the process, since Surface’s screen presented a totally new user experience: a horizontal interface that multiple users (and objects, for that matter) could approach from any direction — a far bigger challenge than a regular computer screen presents. In his office, he showed me a giant sheet of paper with arrows pointing inward from all directions. He said this reminded We are excited to announce support for Incarnate in the latest BlogEngine.NET release. In addition, we have made some improvements to the Incarnate service itself. Here’s the scoop: BlogEngine.NET Support With the release of BlogEngine.NET 1.6, Incarnate is now supported.  We worked with the team behind the project and they added the infrastructure in their engine to support other avatar providers in addition to Gravatar.  Now, they have a field that stores an avatar URL in association with each comment, which works for both their XML provider and their SQL provider. While BlogEngine.NET doesn’t support Incarnate Everybody loves good data visualization. The New York Times has been especially good at using data visualization to demonstrate the power of information visualization as a communication tool. We thought the topic was intriguing enough to create a lab about it. As you may know, we have a sister conference called MIX where we will be hanging out at in March. We want one of you to be there with us (actually, we want all of you there). So we want to take our love of data visualization and our love of giving you something free to give Our industry has just been changed forever. Many have predicted that this day would come, and it finally has -- design has irreversibly supplanted development as the center of gravity in software projects. OK, so maybe that's a bit dramatic. The revolution has taken longer than a day, and will continue for some time. But I believe we can safely say that we're past the turning point.  Design has won. This is a topic that Nishant and I have discussed many times, but the "eureka!" moment for me happened when I was building a Web application