IanMikutel

Been a supporter of Pod Hunt since the day it launched, decided to have my podcast (The Better Show) become an official Pod Hunt "Supporter", and spent over an hour last night with it's founder, Mubs, on Skype talking product direction.

I can't stress how critical it is to build better podcast discovery mechanisms for the medium to continue to grow and thrive. Right now, most podcast discovery is self-reinforcing already successful podcasts. This is neither good for podcasters, or listeners. For new podcasts, its extremely hard to grow/learn, and for listeners it limits the ability to show them how broad and diverse the podcasting world is (which is one of its core strengths, there is something for EVERYONE!)

After my call with Mubs, I'm super excited to see where Pod Hunt goes in the future.

Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. Very curious to learn more. Any particular use cases / dashboards that immediately come to mind?

Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. Would <3 to know how you'd want to use Whiteboard in VR...tell me more?

Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. It's actually a completely different stack/app, and has a lot of focus on making the real-time collab, intelligent inking (shape & table recognition) and canvas much richer (sticky notes, alt-text for accessibility, Bing image search with ink, GDPR compliant, multi-touch ruler for straight lines, rainbow/galaxy ink for pure fun during boring meetings...)

Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. Ink to shape and ink to table are two early examples of how we're infusing intelligence into the Whiteboard's canvas. We want to start showing people the power of the pen (or your finger/mouse if you're inking that way!) and how many things you think are difficult to do (e.g. drawing perfect shapes) or multi-step UI things (e.g. inserting a table with X rows and Y columns from a ribbon menu) can be more naturally done by simply drawing them.

This is just the beginning, but you can imagine many more examples going down this road that will unlock a ton more value in the core "ideation" scenario in which Whiteboard lives.

Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. The other thing I'll note is we see a general trend of most information workers jobs in the next few years calling for more creative work, so the need for these type of solutions will continue to grow--even if it doesn't seem vital in your role today, you may be surprised to look back at how your job's day-to-day has changed 5 years from now.

Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. I've heard first-hand stories from some early Whiteboard Preview folks at enterprises that used our product to cut down on travel & accommodation expenses, while maintaining the same level of fidelity/interaction that f2f meetings gave them, when doing things like technical sales meetings.

We're seeing many enterprises starting to see the benefits & the economics just simply make sense with the decreasing cost curves of large panel displays, and the increasing quality of interactive touch/ink panels.

And Craigslist. And ReadMe.io.

Absolutely love these. Bought the physical printed book version last year and keep it on my desk for inspiration whenever I'm working on something and feel like the world is working against me.

Will there be printed versions of this year's book?

1. This is really well done, especially since it says it was done in realtime. Nice work!

2. I'd love to see notes like this done for more conferences. I'm not sure if it'd be best as a startup that works with conference organizers, or if tech publications like Engadget, Gizmodo, etc. hired artists to do this, or if conference attendees simply submitted tweeted their favorite quotes with hashtags and it gets compiled into a really nice infographic--but there is something here that I really like and wish there was more of.

Actually you can, just scrobble through it quickly. I just did, worked great.

So who else thinks Richard Branson read this and sees opportunity for Virgin Air?

What about the Facebook comment system?