Nigel Eccles, co-founder and CEO of Hubdub Ltd, guest blogs about the 'Customer Development Methodology' developed by Steve Blank, and outlined in his book ' The Four Steps to the Epiphany' at TechCrunch - Europe. Nigel discusses how he applied this to...

If you'll be visiting the New York MTC, or New York City in the not too distant future you might find this olfactory guide to the city either useful or entertaining: NYT: Scents and the City :-)

· Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog: SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners! “ SharePoint 2007 Partners: You’ve heard the buzz about SharePoint 2010 and seen the sneak peeks. Now learn how you can get ready to start building with and...

Two stories caught my eye recently regarding Social Networking (and Twitter specifically) – both stories appear on ArsTechnica : Malware, oversharing lead Marines to ban social networks "IT managers frequently voice their concerns about people's...

John TImmer's article Crowdsourcing the semantics of numbers with True # at ArsTechnica talks about True#, which is looking to put context around numbers that are represented as text. A very interesting idea. From ArsTechnica : " … Most of us can...

Interesting article at ComputerWorld : Open-source users revolt over OpenOffice.org's ribbon-esque UI talks about the implementation of the Ribbon UI in Open Office. There seems to be outrage by some in the Open Office community about using the ribbon...

Abel Avram posted about a pure .Net port of SQLLite3 to C# over at InfoQ " Noah Hart has ported SQLite3 to C#. While the first port is slower than the original, the project opens the way for SQLite to be used in .NET managed projects without using...

There's an article from August 7 th on the New York Time site about SharePoint's growth and adoption called Microsoft's SharePoint Thrives in the Recession : "Hang around at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters for five or ten minutes and someone...

Donald Bell , host of cnet.com's MP3 Insider, got some hands-on time with the Zune HD : " Well, having just geeked-out with a pair of Zune HDs for about an hour, I am tentatively reaffirming my faith in Microsoft. This thing was worth the wait, folks...

...need we say more ;-)

Over at MSDN DevLabs , there is a project called The .NET Framework enabled to use Software Transactional Memory (STM.NET) . This went live on the 27 th of July . " Software Transactional Memory (STM.NET) is a mechanism for efficient isolation of shared...