John L. Scott Real Estate (JLS) is delivering a unique social networking solution, called JLSconnect, that makes it easier for buyers to shop for a home, and it will help JLS agents win new business and keep customers. By building this new solution using...

eBay has just launched a new sidebar offering in beta. I have been collaborating with eBay on this wonderful Internet Explorer 8 sidebar. What is unique is that they are the first Internet Explorer sidebar that utilizes Silverlight™ as part of the presentation...

“Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”, “my way or the highway”, etc. We’ve all heard this type of proclamations before, as many look to the “next big things” in technology to exact sweeping changes and solve...

Two weeks ago I attended TechEd in Los Angeles. During the conference I had the chance to catch up with a number of old friends and record the videos for TechEd Online . In particular, I did the following interviews… Scaling websites with...

EVENT OVERVIEW “Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”, “my way or the highway”, etc. We’ve all heard this type of proclamations before, as many look to the “next big things” in technology to exact...

“Cloud computing will supersede traditional IT”, “SOA will enable business agility”, “my way or the highway”, etc. We’ve all heard this type of proclamation before, as many look to the “next big things” in technology to exact sweeping changes and solve...

Esurance, the direct-to-consumer auto insurance company, has been offering policies online since 1999. And today, most Esurance customers still purchase their policies through the company’s user-friendly Web site. At esurance.com, customers can get free...

For anyone who doesn’t know, Scott Guthrie is the force at Microsoft responsible for all things .NET. His official title is Corporate Vice President US-.NET Developer Platform (taken directly from the Microsoft Exchange GAL listing).  Suffice to...

On May 13, 2009 Garland Brown, an attorney with Greenberg, Traurig, LLP presented a well-rounded overview of some of the core legal issues facing startups. I have included his presentation in this post but I also wanted to share my personal notes on some...

Thanks to Network World for their article, Microsoft’s software pipeline set to burst . The product roadmaps for the coming year were announced at TechEd this past week. Read the full article on Raj Ramabadran’s blog at http://rajramabadran.wordpress...

If you are a Yahoo! Mail user and your currently using IE8 you will love the feature called the Mail Web slice that is available as part of Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Yahoo! . The Web slice gives signed-in users quick previews of their Mail right...

As far back as 2001 Samad Wahedi began to notice the gradual migration of work to the Web. He saw that people were doing more activities online, from banking to social networking, and people needed tools for performing certain tasks.  Wahedi and...

Microsoft .NET Services whitepapers are now available from the Microsoft download centers. Read the full article on Sam Chenaur’s blog at http://blog.samchenaur.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-net-services-whitepapers-released.aspx

As far back as 2001 Samad Wahedi began to notice the gradual migration of work to the Web. He saw that people were doing more activities online, from banking to social networking, and people needed tools for performing certain tasks. Wahedi and his business...

Eduify is a web application and its mission is to give every student the tools and services they so critically need to become better writers and more importantly deliver to President Obama’s impetus to re-invigorate education in America. So before we...

Yesterday, marked 6 months since the launch of this fantastic program and with it came a great achievement – 12,000 startups ! Microsoft BizSpark is a great DEAL!  It is a program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by...

new CloudApp() , a US based developer challenge, was launched today.  Its focus is to promote applications running on the Azure Services Platform .  This contest will have three categories of winners for applications running on the Azure Services...

I helped Suresh Sreedharan a ISV Architect Evangelist execute the first Windows 7 Incubation Week. I will not go in to at much as we had a real writer Tamara Chuang stop by on the last day of the event and she did a great story read more… What 4 developers...

Microsoft uses the term " Software+Services " to describe a vision of computing that harmonizes client and server software with cloud services [ S+S Strategy ].  Rich software components that either exist on client machines or installed...