Archive for June 22nd, 2008

Jun 22

Microsoft Search: Will It Use Mahalo Techniques to Compete With Google? Brad Goldberg on Microsoft Live Search

Brad Goldberg, general manager of Microsoft’s Search Business Group (aka Windows Live Search) talks with Robert Scoble in an interview about Brad's perspectives on how Microsoft will look to change the game in search. [MSDN]
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Jun 22

Yahoo Traffic Quality Center updates

If you see an unexpected increase in clicks or impressions on your Yahoo paid search account? Reggie Davis, VP, Marketplace Quality over at Yahoo! Traffic Quality Center rolled out new updated features to help you troubleshoot click spikes, plus, a form that will let you submit an request for an investigation by Yahoo!. Under
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Jun 22

Halo 3 advertising campaign Believe swipes away two Grand Prix Cannes Lions awards

On par with a drum-beating gorilla, Microsoft and its advertising agency McCann Worldgroup is sharing the glory by winning not one but two Grand Prix (better than Gold) awards at the prestigious Cannes Lions 2008 international advertising festival for the Halo 3 advertising campaign “Believe”. One was for film, and the other for integrated marketing. Considering the film category had over 4600 entries, this recognition is well deserved. Now we just need a similar campaign for Windows.
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Jun 22

BBC Mashed: Lonely Planet API, and The Lonely Planet M-Site

Over at BBC Mashed event in London, attendees have been given access to newl released The Lonely Planet API, which will give map developers access to Lonely Planet's huge resource of geographical data, including: 'points of interest' for locations throughout the world 'destination profiles' - with historical and cultural information tens of thousands of professionally taken photographsThis API will
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Jun 22

WordPress Cache Plugins: Alternate to Super Cache and WP-Cache for DreamHost VPS

All WordPressers, knows, there’re two best performance enhancing caching solutions available for WordPress: “WP-Cache and WP-SuperCache”. Both do an awesome job of caching posts/pages to help keep your website surviving off a Digg effect. The later Super Cache is an advanced version of WP-Cache, that serves cache files from Apache, it can be used to server HTML files, or gzip cache
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Jun 22

Automating port monitoring using PowerShell

Boris Yanushpolsky developed a script that demonstrates how “Automating port monitoring using PowerShell.” In order to run the script, you need to open the OpsMgr Command Shell and run the following: CreatePortMonitoring.ps1 -serverName:'TargetServerName.contoso.com' -portNumber:'80' -pollIntervalSeconds:'120' -watcherNodes:"watcher1.contoso.com", "watcher2.contoso.com" -displayName:'Test URL monitoring' -targetMP:'Port Monitoring MP' Note: If you specify the interval less than 1 minute, the monitoring should still work
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Jun 22

Apple’s Steve Wozniak “How it all began?”

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and inventor of the Apple I and II, talks with the BBC about starting Apple in 1976. "Everything was ... thinking about the good of humanity," he said. His starting salary? $24,000 a year: maybe a quarter of what an Apple engineer makes today.
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Jun 22

YouTube videos in infinite loop

You know, how to loop video & music in desktop media player, but if you want to play a YouTube embedded video in an infinite loop, you can automate the process and play the video in loop in two ways:
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Jun 22

Exchange Server: Enhancing support for Custom Item Classes

The Exchange Team is considering for future Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 service packs and future releases of Exchange Server to enhance support for item classes for which EWS doesn’t have a corresponding type, as one area where we can improve your experience with EWS. This proposed modification will change some of the default behavior, and before we make our
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Jun 22

DoJ sees development of Windows 7

Under the terms of Microsoft's November 2001 Justice Department settlement and final court judgment issued about a year later, a government-sanctioned “Technical Committee” has overseen Windows development. The TC is responsible for ensuring that Microsoft complies with the terms of the final judgment, investigating complaints about Microsoft abuses and regularly reporting on the company's compliance. The
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