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Friday, July 13, 2007 6:53 AM

RSS Aggregation as an illustration of Software & Services

This is probably more of a rant than an 'interesting architectural piece' but anyway... I typically use JetBrains Omea Reader for my blog reading as it has a whole bunch of features for categorisation, annotation, and workspace separation that are appealing.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:02 AM

Silverlight Simplicity

I just finished a POC covering Silverlight in a bit of depth, so I've been spending this week considering the learning from that. I typically try to absorb technology by doing (part) of the project again without reference to the original to see if I've
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:38 AM

8 Random Things

I don't really buy into these meme things (I'm probably bitter that I never get tagged, and don't have enough friends to forward them to, and besides they remind me of those "your whole family will die if you don't" chain letters) but seeing as it's Eileen
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Monday, July 09, 2007 6:17 AM

Social Networking and Lensed/Faceted Browsing

So Facebook has undoubtedly raised the bar in terms of social networking capability and expectation, and I imagine that LinkedIn and MySpace are now considering how to respond to the (perceived) explosion in growth in Facebook users (and therefore the
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Monday, July 02, 2007 4:22 PM

Interplanetary Data Analysis

Fabulous report from MS Research on high-level communication activities on the Messenger network . Check out the dataset: "The compressed dataset occupies 4.5 terabytes, composed from 1 billion conversations per day (150 gigabytes) over one month of logging.
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Monday, July 02, 2007 3:27 AM

Army of Me

While Photosynth is looking cool , it's sometimes worth a rummage around the Microsoft Research website to see what fun toys there are to download. Group Shot is one of those things and has enabled me to produce evidence that proves that I'm not a loner
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