Giorgio Sardo

gioker84 Director (Microsoft Corp)

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Niner since 2006

Giorgio Sardo is a Director of the Windows Evangelism group at Microsoft Corp. Winner of the Imagine Cup worldwide championship, nominated as Best Consultant of the Year from the British Computer Society, Giorgio moved in early 2009 to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond to focus on the future of the Web. Giorgio is a popular speaker worldwide and in the last 5 years he has presented at hundreds of conferences around the globe. He and his team are the mind behind many beautiful HTML5 applications and games available at www.beautyoftheweb.com and in the Windows Store.

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IE9 and Privacy: Introducing Tracking Protection
Dec 08, 2010 at 9:53 AM

1. Microsoft has a long-held belief that people should have choice and control in how their personal information is used on the internet. You can read more here.
2. From the official blog post: One potential downside is that some web site publishers and developers already have concerns with large numbers of visitors blocking some of the content today (usually ads). We understand this concern and have provided several ways to deal with this issue. First, this functionality is opt-in, and by default consumers’ experience will remain the same as it is today, unless they make a decision to change it. Second, any site can make available a Tracking Protection List that creates exceptions (via “OK to Call” items) for external content that provides the full experience of the site. This TPL provides transparency to the consumer about the additional sites he will visit and share information with. Third, a site can pull external content into its own domain, so that a consumer has no need to call external sites. Lastly, networks of sites and associations can work together to create a TPL that they recommend broadly to consumers. We designed the feature so that there are ample opportunities for all the constiuencies to engage in a manner consistent with their priorities and point of view.
Swine Flu (H1N1) Tracker Web Slice Released
May 01, 2009 at 6:30 PM

Umh...what should we say then about those people that read or listen to murders/crimes on the newspapers or TV News? Are them all serial killers?

Information is the key. Without information, there would not be freedom. Are Web Slices going to save the world? Maybe not (maybe...), but at least they will help us to be more connected with the information that we want. Because at the end of the day, it's up to you to subscribe to the Swine Flu, Ebay, ESPN Soccer, or one of the other hundreds web slice...
Ebay on IE8
Apr 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM

Thanks Bas, this is helpful. Watch out the Ebay site for updates....more to come soon
Ebay on IE8
Apr 16, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Hi Bas,

thanks for the feedbacks!

Web slices: they will be live on the www.ebay.com site very soon! I know Ebay is pushing an update to their site at the same time I'm writing this post, and it will take a few hours/days to propagate across all the web servers.

Visual Search: the way the visual search provider has been designed is:
- You browse to a website (let's say, ebay.com)
- IE8 discover that an open search descriptor is available, and highlights the dropdown arrow
- The user click on "Add search provider->NameOfTheProvider". From this point, the search provider will be always available, regardless where the user is.
- If the user returns to the website, or browser to another website...the ebay search provider is still in his providers list, allowing him to quickly perform searches with any provider at any time.
During the Beta and RC period we run many usability labs, and what we found out is that users like to have and use more than 1 search provider; to switch quickly from one to another, you can type your search keyword, and then with the mouse click on the other search provider icons. This will allow you to write once your query, and run it across different search providers. Sharon, our IE PM for Visual Search, has written an interesting post on the IE blog. Finally, in order to preserve users customization, we allow you to set your default search provider (the one with the focus by default); you can change this setting going to "Manage Search Providers".

Favorites bar: that "gap" is the minimum amount of space needed to show a web slice icon or favorite link title. Being able to flip it to the other side is a good feedback; to be honest we never heard this request before, but I will bring this feedback to the IE Team.

Please keep posting your feedbacks!
Giorgio
Taobao on IE8
Apr 08, 2009 at 7:03 PM

Thanks Charles!

More content to come soon...
Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices
Oct 08, 2008 at 2:44 AM

Hi Gilles,

the video of the session will be available after PDC
I don't want to anticipate anything about the content but...expect A LOT of demos

In the meantime, if you are looking for a Mobile UX whitepaper, have a look at http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc964299.aspx

Ciao!
Giorgio Sardo
Tech Ed 2006: Meet the Imagine Cup 2006 1st Place team - Team Italy
Dec 01, 2006 at 11:29 AM

Thank you!!
It's such a pleasure to be here on Channel9

Again, Imagine Cup is a great experience: if you are a student and you like technology, this competition is waiting for you

You can find more information about me, my team and the project Hello World on www.giorgiosardo.com/HelloWorld

Ciao!

Giorgio Sardo