2009: The Year Ahead – Live Search (1)
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Of all of Microsoft’s live services, Live Search could be far and away the most interesting story of 2009. New leadership, increased pressure to perform, lingering questions about a Yahoo! search deal, the coming of age of new technologies, and quite possibly even a whole new name are all stories to watch in the coming year. Leadership: Dr. Qi Lu, a veteran search technologist coming from Yahoo! to lead Live Search, will have a full ...
Hosting Silverlight content on a CDN (1)
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Silverlight Tips of the Day - Summary Outline - Silverlight Tips of the Day - Blog by Mike Snow (3)
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The purpose of this post is to create an outline summary all the blogs from my Silverlight Tips of the Day blog. Hopefully this will be easier than paging through multiple pages of blogs to find what you need. I will be keeping this list up-to-date as I add more blogs so feel free to bookmark this page. Also, if you have any ideas or suggestions for other tips don’t hesitate to contact me at ...
Ballmer’s big moment (34)
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Steve Jobs won’t be center stage this week. Chuq von Rospach, who used to work at Apple, wraps up what that means from an inside-the-Apple sphere. But there’s another first coming up next week: it’ll be the first CES without Bill Gates on stage. It is Steve Ballmer’s big moment. The lights will be all on him thanks to Steve Jobs’ decision to not show up on stage. Now, look at the enterprise videos I’ve ...
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Aaron said:
Who the hell pays any attention to the facebook platform anymore?
Reading: Designing for the Social Web (4)
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Nikhil Kothari's Weblog (17)
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A little bit about Designing for the Social Web - an interesting, insightful and fun read on what to keep in mind when designing social experiences on the web.
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Twitter warning: your account data is being sold « (54)
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You iknow the spammer? Twply? Well, it’s worse than it seems. They now have your user name and password and are looking to sell your data to the highest bidder. Twitter needs a real third-party authentication system and it needs it now. Thanks to Mark Trapp and other friendfeeders for bringing this to my attention. Tagged: data, privacy, Twitter
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Rob Boek said:
Twitter definitely needs a third party authentication system. I hate putting my password in to use third party apps.
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Ryan said:
This is interesting news. However, it would be great to know the source of this claim.
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Jeff said:
Once again - giving out account information to a 3rd party service is not a good idea. If they ask for it, you are better off not using the service at all.
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Geoffrey Wiseman said:
Nice. This shows concretely that every time you feed your authentication information into a third-party service, you should not only worry about what they might do with it, but whether or not they might sell it in the future.
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James Cridland said:
This is typical reactionary bollocks from Scoble. No, they're not looking to sell "your username/password". Grr.
Five things right, five things wrong from Microsoft in 2008 (4)
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Just saw this Network World article on four things Microsoft got right in 2008. It says: Windows 7, Hiring Yahoo talent, Windows Azure and Server 2008. I partly agree (I am not sure about Azure, or the significance of Yahoo hires). Here’s my own five right moves, with my usual developer bias. 1. Not buying Yahoo at what now seems a ludicrously inflated price. 2. Windows 7 preview. It was kept reasonably well under wraps, ...
How to Build Silverlight Business Applications Across Networks (1)
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Enterprise-class applications being built by ISVs require secure delivery of line-of-business (LOB) information across network boundaries. They are often provided over the Internet and require a role-based user interface and data trimming applied for the business context. Silverlight and .NET Framework 3.5 supplies excellent capabilities for building such scalable and secure LOB applications. The lightweight Silverlight runtime running inside a sandbox provides framework libraries for integration with back-office data services. In order to build robust ...
Hypervideo – Getting Started (3)
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For those of you who want to get started with hypervideo and don't want to wait for the videos or the full tutorial, here is the first of a series of fast mini-tutorials. The first step is to pick a video you'd like to use as your "source." The source will be the video you'll link from. If you don't have it already, you'll need to download Encoder by going to the Expression Web Site ...
HyperVideo Continuing the dialog (3)
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Ben wrote that he hopes I will dive deep into decoupling the type or name of the markers from the data-driven information, and I want to respond that this is an important part of decoupling the link from the response to that link, though I'm not sure it is totally required. The case for unnamed Markers The argument in favor starts with the observation that there is a natural tendency to think of the source ...
Silverlight DLLs on the desktop CLR (4)
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I’m a dinosaur and it’s possible I’m the only who didn’t know this – But you can use Silverlight DLLs on the full .Net desktop CLR. See, I’ve been working with Silverlight since Mix07 (March 2007) when we were all excited about Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 1.1. First I was working as a senior .Net consultant on a variety of projects, and for the last 6 months I’ve been working on the Silverlight Toolkit for ...
HyperVideo (2)
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This posting will reintroduce the concept of Hyper-video, the subject of a series of forthcoming videos. The concept of HyperVideo is most easily explained by a series of examples. You are watching the news and the anchor person says "Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, today announced…" you click on the question mark on the screen and are presented with a menu: Zimbabwe History (Web link) Zimbabwe Government and Politics (Article) President Mugabe Biography (Video) Go ...
Unit Testing in silverlight land with Typemock Isolator (4)
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I’ve been asked quite a lot recently whether one can write unit tests and isolate logical code that runs inside a silverlight application. Up until today my initial answer was ‘no’ because silverlight runs under different versions of mscorlib.dll. however. Today I actually gave it a try and realized that writing unit tests (not integration tests, as the silverlight test framework allows) against silverlight based code is possible and quite easy. Just like any other ...
Semantic Zooming in Deep Zoom (1)
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Here's an idea. What if you change the contents of the collection pages for each level of detail? What if you want the collection of images to look different when you are zoomed out vs when you are zoomed in? There are many scenarios I can imagine this being useful for. Think you want to show a large collection of posters (as I do below). Each single poster is designned to "pop", to stand out ...
XAML Guidelines, Part 2 (1)
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As a follow-up to part 1, Jaime Rodriguez meets up with Unni Ravindranathan from the Expression Blend team. They open the source code project for Blend inside of Blend (endless loop? possibly, but it works). With the code open, Unni explains their project structure, their naming conventions, how they organize their resources and more.
Microsoft Expression Studio available at 50% (1)
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Just heard through Chris Koenig that Microsoft Expression Studio is available for a limited time at 50% of the original price. This suite is a must-have for anyone doing serious design work with Microsoft platforms such as Windows Presentation Foundation...( read more )...(read more)
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I’m a huge supporter of open source software development and I'd like to take this opportunity to go over the Silverlight Contrib O/S project. Fair disclosure first though, my current role is Program Manager for the Silverlight Toolkit team which ships on codeplex (at http://www.codepl...). I’ve got a very high quality bar and I expect nothing less from any O/S project that I ask customers to put into their technology stack. Standard Microsoft disclaimer: KGB ...Shared by IanBlackburn (17) Microserf2005 (34)Contribute comment
