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IanMikutel

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About IanMikutel

For work, I’m a engineer at Microsoft. For fun, I love designing products, entrepreneurship, UX, running, golfing & drinking tea. If you live in the Seattle Area and want to meet up sometime, email/IM me (ianmikutel at gmail)

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    Comment #20842443

    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…

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    Comment #17546980

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

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    Comment #17546974

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

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    Comment #17546964

    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 recogni…

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    Comment #17546956

    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 p…

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    Comment #17546928

    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 th…

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    Comment #17546912

    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 & accommodatio…

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    Comment #17546886

    Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. We just announced Surface Hub 2, more details (and video) here: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2018/05/15/meet-surface-hu...

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    Comment #10515609

    And Craigslist. And ReadMe.io.

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    Comment #8449698

    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 workin…

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    Comment #3751537

    Pitch videos from every team & live voting for a 6th Fan Favorite to make the finals going on now at: http://vote.rit48.com gkoberger and I are 2/5 judges and after visiting with a…

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    Comment #3178493

    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…

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    Comment #3155385

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

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    Comment #3110395

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

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    Comment #3109491

    What about the Facebook comment system?

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    Comment #3072600

    Overall, it may be very telling that Apple labeled Siri as "Beta" because it could very well be that most of the above could still come true in months and years to come. Apple inve…

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    Comment #3072347

    I wrote a post last night ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3069745 ) analyzing Tom Gruber, Siri's Co-Founder, CTO, and VP of Design, original Siri keynote in 2008. The post go…

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    Comment #3070057

    Interesting concept, I never even considered Apple offering additional Assistant features as a premium service. Imagine if you paid an additional $4.99 a month through iTunes for a…

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    Comment #3070051

    Amen brother. Honestly, as I said in the post, I truly believe this could be a new natural user interface. Just as touch interfaces have been all the rage in the tech world since m…

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    Comment #3070036

    Haha good call, heck lets just call it 4G and call it a day. /buzzword

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    Comment #3070031

    On desktops, maybe. But on mobile devices, Google is just as slow as your connection. Imagine if Apple built in some Amazon Silk-like ties between Assistant and iCloud? Or if they …

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    Comment #3070018

    I feel like you could have made the same statement about the CRAZY idea of a touchscreen smart phone back in 2007...and then Steve Jobs showed off the iPhone and everyone went...we…

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    Comment #3070009

    Actually Siri is based off arguably more time, research and possibly funding than Google may have thrown at this particular problem. As I quoted from 9to5mac in my post: "In 2003, …