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Technorati tags: six apart, project comet, typepad

Six Apart is introducing a great new blogging platform: Project Comet. Some of the features:

• Community Aggregation: Gives you the ability to create individual blogs and share sections of them with other users in an elegant and customizable way.
• Multiple Streams: Provides a single place to keep everything that is important to you. A record of your life is created by incorporating streams from various media, like music, photos, videos and other blogs into a single customized blog with an identity of its own.
• Privacy: Lets you decide who gets to see what parts of your blog in addition to existing password protections for entire blogs.

And Mena's mom showed up. I cannot wait to see it. More about this exciting new platform on Nial Kennedy's blog here and here.

The first part of an impression of CeBIT 2007.

Wacom tablet
Yesterday Stan Segers from ReSQqueL (his weblog: My Torn datapages) brought me his Wacom tablet. A kind of drawing tablet, so not a tablet PC. But interesting enough to try the handwritingfeature and installing options in Windows Vista.

Installation
The installationin Vista was just plug & play. Inserting the cable in the usb connector and Vista recognised the device and installed the drivers. After that I had to install a driver for automatic calibration of the tablet with the screensize. This driver is over here. Important remark: it is on the American website and not the European one! After installing this driver/app which was done automatically after downloading eveything worked fine.

Handwritingrecognition: Dutch language in English Vista!
And now the most exciting new! I can use dutch handwriting recognition in my english Vista without installing one bit. All the language for handwritingrecognition are already in Vista. Just a matter of setting the right checks in the control panel!
How this done? Well watch my short screencast (in Windows Media and iPod version)!

I visited Mivar Automotive on Autovak RAI 2007 and had a chat with Peter Odding. They are going to introduce their software for car collection on a tablet pc. The EasyBook of PaceBlade (disclosure: paceblade is a subsidiary of Tulip Computers, my employer). So again, this is a nice case. The software is originally developped for a PDA, but customers ask for a larger device (but not too large). And a lot of them want to skip the paperwork when a rented or leased car is inspected after returning.
He thinks a tablet is a great device because it is more robust compared to a PDA. And because it is a real pc it is easy to communicate (wireless) with the backoffice and other software. The camera is very handy when you want to record the damage for your electronic file.
Nice to see that the video of Le Mans Damage Company which I produced was installed on the easybook and shown to customers on the fair. I also saw some photos their which I took at Le Mans.
In this video you can hear Peter Odding talking about the tablet pc and his software. Because it is in Dutch you can find English subtitles on it.

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Play Windows Media version

You can download the iPod video (25 mb,m4v) and the Windows Media video (77 mb, wmv, 1280x720).

Download iPod video file (m4v, 26 mb, 13 min 49)
Download Windows Media Video (wmv, 49 mb, 13 min 49)