May 21, 2008

The home of the future?

Microsoft kindly gave us a tour of their vision of the home of the future. Notably the home features processors in everything, networked everything and personalized everything. Think it and it will be.
Microsoft is clearly better at technology than it is at interior design and there is a faint sense of disappointment as a result but the [...]

May 21, 2008

When content is all a bit Mickey Mouse

The great Michael Eisner addressed the audience at Microsoft’s Advance08 yesterday with a simple message ‘That storytelling will come to dominate online entertainment in the same way as it dominated television.’
Mr. Eisner is putting his not inconsiderable money where his mouth is by funding a couple of content ventures which he says have production costs [...]