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OpenSource Garden from Microsoft: CodePlex is Looking Good

A couple months ago, I learned about Microsoft's official process & support for community, open source projects centered around www.codeplex.net . At that point, the site was pretty empty, but it's turned into very active development repository. A Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:15 PM by andyed | 0 Comments
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Innovation in Feedback Collection with Windows Vista

I've written about the challenges of capitalizing on at-scale user feedback both academically and on the search blog (busted post alas, edit when fixed) . One way to listen to users is to open up your bug tracking system to the world, as done by Mozilla.org. Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:15 PM by andyed | 1 Comments
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Gestures in Vista for the Tablet PC

Windows Vista offers a operating system level implementation of gestures called Flicks especially tuned for pen usage on tablets. There's an important difference between this implementation and gesture implementations like Optimoz for firefox: there is Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:35 PM by andyed | 0 Comments
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News.com on MSR (re)Search. SIGIR in Seattle.

Wow, academic work covered by News.com ; well, it is research by sone of MSR's most talented information retrieval folks and the search competitive space seems to be a media favorite. One of the works discussed by News.com explores a nalysis of user behavior Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:09 PM by andyed | 0 Comments
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My favorite MSDN blog

The office 12 Excel blog is one of my favorite MSDN blogs, along with Alex and the popular favorites . The latest Excel post delves into the design process with a focus on the incremental formalization of artifacts. I love that Microsoft's embrace of Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:47 PM by andyed | 2 Comments
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Live Labs Funded Research Projects: Take #1

I'm excited about the work coming from External Research & Programs: Microsoft Live Labs: Accelerating Search in Academic Research 2006 RFP Awards. One of the projects, from Suresh Bhanani and Lada Adamic at UMich, is going to take on deep clickstream Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 9:28 PM by andyed | 0 Comments
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The nature of browsing is changing - report from WWW'06

Some good folks at the University of Hamburg published an update to some long standing historical numbers in web usage research that reveal the way users are browsing the web has changed dramatically over the last few years. Here's the punchline: Table Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:54 PM by andyed | 9 Comments
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