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Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista

Karsten had a great time working with the Yahoo team on their Windows Vista Messenger client. They've posted a video preview of the app with some fun features like the group skinning in the fantasy football league example. Karsten - at the risk of exacerbating Read More...
Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 9:16 AM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments
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Chipping away at the "Tyranny of the OR"

It's pretty natural to think through engineering problems in terms of choices between this OR that (e.g. web app OR windows app, online OR offline, centralized OR distributed, record-oriented OR document-oriented, synchronous OR asynchronous, http OR Read More...
Posted Friday, February 11, 2005 6:35 PM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments
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Bay Area Traffic for your Smartphone (or Duct-Taping the Web)

At Inktomi, we used to joke that cookies were the “duct tape” of the Internet. That was before XML Web Services; but even now, this Smartphone 2003 bay area traffic application uses .NET Compact Framework and XML Web Services as a kind of “super duct Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 30, 2005 11:09 AM by jcmaslan | 3 Comments
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New Concept Video: Longhorn for Telecom

The new Longhorn for Telecom demo video takes a look at a couple big opportunities for both telecom companies and software developers. Read More...
Posted Friday, July 23, 2004 2:55 PM by jcmaslan | 5 Comments
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Cassini is Everywhere

Under my hotel room door today was a front page photo of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft. Given that the ongoing stream of spectacular pictures from Cassini has been greeted with such anticipation, and has generated such excitement, I wish I’d Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:09 PM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments
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The Man Behind the Curtain

First I laughed, then I got scared, then I started thinking when I saw David's office as he's preparing for a keynote demo . Look at that picture. He's got to ship all those machines to the event just because we can't guarantee 100% that we'll have a Read More...
Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 1:26 AM by jcmaslan | 2 Comments
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New Concept Video: Longhorn for Higher Education

This new Longhorn for Higher Education Demo Video includes scenarios in community interaction, shared annotations, interactive documents, and visualizations. I'm hoping my son's college experience is filled with materials like the ones we prototyped with Read More...
Posted Friday, June 18, 2004 2:27 PM by jcmaslan | 12 Comments
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Jonathan's Squarified Treemaps with XAML and C#

I'm digging out from a 10-day-vacation-without-connectivity inbox, and just saw great work by Jonathan Hodgson that Chris Sells mentioned last week . Data visualization is going to be huge! Read More...
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 7:58 PM by jcmaslan | 0 Comments

New Concept Video: Longhorn for Manufacturing

The Longhorn in Manufacturing demo highlights Avalon, Indigo and Fundamentals in plant floor operations, business intelligence, and system integration. The scenarios in the demo are based on early work with our partner Invensys Wonderware . Their innovative Read More...
Posted Friday, April 09, 2004 4:02 PM by jcmaslan | 12 Comments
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New Concept Video: Longhorn for Financial Services

This Longhorn demo focuses on ways that Indigo and WinFS help you build collaborative applications that blend peer-to-peer workflow with back-end system integration. It shows how deploying a simple client app can make a complex datacenter project easier. Read More...
Posted Friday, March 05, 2004 11:20 AM by jcmaslan | 10 Comments
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Fly the earth in 3D - even before Longhorn! :)

Everyone loves the satellite / aerial fly-over shown in the Commercial Real Estate Longhorn demo . You too can fly right now by downloading the app from Keyhole . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:20 PM by jcmaslan | 1 Comments
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Deploying applications with email?!

Regarding the Commercial Real Estate Longhorn demo , Joseph asked in email, How can the one-click install feature possibly be secure when a one click install application is e-mail? You are allowing someone else’s code to run on your machine. What Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:29 PM by jcmaslan | 2 Comments
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New Longhorn Concept Video for Healthcare Posted

The second in a series of vertical industry Longhorn demos has been posted here on MSDN . The Longhorn Healthcare demo precipitated our collaboration with Merck and Datalabs on the construction of the Longhorn clinical trial demo you saw in Jim Allchin's Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 12:07 PM by jcmaslan | 15 Comments
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Indigo, Biztalk, and Longhorn - how they play together

The data exchanges in the Longhorn demo for Commercial Real Estate prompted questions about the way Biztalk, Indigo, and Longhorn work together. Scott Woodgate 's PDC session DAT420: BizTalk Server 2004 with SQL Server “Yukon” DTS and “Indigo” Read More...
Posted Friday, January 16, 2004 11:13 AM by jcmaslan | 4 Comments
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On Being a "Longhorn Evangelist"

I’m * still * amazed by the Internet. You’d think that after having used it for 20 years, and having been at the center of the Internet boom at Inktomi, I’d lose just a little of my fascination. But once again, I feel like the guys from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:29 AM by jcmaslan | 3 Comments
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