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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
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We just announced a new offering with our social-media partner Pluck and their product code-named AdLife. AdLife will inject social media features like customer comments and user-generated content into digital advertisements such as banner ads or micro sites - in effect, turning mainstream ads ...
Tags: AJAX, flash, Internet marketing, Organic search, search engine optimization, seo, silverlight, software as a service, Web banner, Web search engine, Yahoo
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
By now almost everyone who keeps an eye on search market is aware of the launch of new search engine - cuil.com. And to my amazement most of us have already given a verdict on this new offering as to if this is a real Google killer or just another ...
Tags: Cuil, google, privacy, Search Engines
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Recently, the Yahoo UI blog recognized Fred Welterlin and team's outstanding work on the Pulte Home's new site. The post talks about the Yahoo UI components used and how we made the Javascript Library choice. This is typically a challenge for us given the great selection of libraries out there. ...
Tags: AJAX, Fred Welterlin, Javascript, Pulte Homes, Yahoo UI, YUI
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
You may be used to typing in top-level domains (TLDs) like .com, .net or .edu when heading to websites, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to change that with a decision to open new TLDs for registration, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.Under the new ...
Tags: ICANN, TLDs, Top level domains
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
It's pretty interesting how the press and our clients continue to find our internal knowledge management wiki to be interesting. Here Infoworld captures some thoughts from Shiv Singh on why we built the wiki. It's all about bringing some of the innovations from the consumer facing world into Enterprises. Learning ...
Tags: Infoworld, mediawiki, php, Shiv Singh, wikipedia
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Think about an online-offline silverlight-wpf application that synchronizes your files using LiveMesh.
I like the name. I finally see the Live brand starting to come together for Microsoft. Now all it needs is some more market awareness. So, what is LiveMesh? It's basically a new, invite only for now, platform that ...
Tags: gears, google, livemesh, silverlight
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
With Google Gears, Adobe Air, and Microsoft WPF there's definitely lots of exciting changes in the desktop application area. Using the openness of the web to crack open the 'closed' nature of regular documents that we use today. At the recent Avenue A | Razorfish Enterprise Solutions summit, Andrew McAfee ...
Tags: adobe, air, Andrew McAfee, google, Microsoft, WPF
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Skype announced unlimited calling last month to over a third of the world’s population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal the first time Skype has offered a single, monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries.
The new subscriptions have no ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
When doing WPF development, a good source of information is http://windowsclient.net. One interesting download on that site is the Syndicated Client Starter Kit . It is a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content client applications. It has built-in ad-serving capabilities, and includes ...
Tags: Microsoft, SQL Server CE, WPF
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
As mentioned in an earlier post, we worked with AT &T and the Microsoft Surface team to build a Surface application for AT &T retail stores. It was demo'ed 2 weeks ago in Vegas, and will be going live April 17 in stores in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and ...
Tags: Microsoft, Surface, WPF
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