Much has been written lately about the rise of the API. Offering a programming interface to an online service is now standard practice amongst this generation of web...
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Richard MacManus: Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms
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Competing with Hulu?
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We recently published our report “Competing with YouTube”, where we explored strategies to compete with the video giant. Hulu, who has carved out a niche...
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Simplicity - The Holy Grail Of Software Development
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Simplicity. A word to live by. An unending quest. The holy grail of software. As software makers our raison d’être is making complex tasks easy. We’re back to...
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Seth Bindernagel: How to build a language pack…en Español
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Ever wonder how to create a language pack? Here is a video from Ricardo Meza from our Mexican community describing how to do it….in just over 7 minutes. The video is...
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Designing a Different Kind of Intranet: An Intranet for a UX Team
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"Most of us who are working as part of a design team in a services company, a product company, or even a design boutique have to live with a generic intranet. In this...
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Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
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Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart...
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Apple Plumping Up My Windows System?
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I’m poking around my computer tonight and looking for old apps that I no longer use and can get rid of from my Control Panel. The first one that caught my attention...
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More Integration of Windows Update
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After hopefully finding a solution to my wife’s laptop problems, I began wondering to myself, why in the world didn’t Windows Update notice there were BIOS...
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What’s your Favorite MindManager or Mindjet Connect Tip?
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Mindjet would like to provide our community with more customer-driven product tips ’n tricks. Can anyone share their favorite suggestion? It can...
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What’s That Noise? The Sound of Windows Desktop Search Sucking
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It could be that I’m just missing something but I’ve yet to ever actually find anything with Windows Desktop Search. Remember the days when you could just do a...
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Designing a Different Kind of Intranet: An Intranet for a UX Team
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"Most of us who are working as part of a design team in a services company, a product company, or even a design boutique have to live with a generic intranet. In this...
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Life’s Lessons [Venture Chronicles]
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Tomorrow I am speaking at a really neat Silicon Valley Executive Network event. When Brian Reynard approached me (btw, in the spirit of full disclosure, I participate on...
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Flying Virgin America
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I recently flew to L.A. We all know ticket prices are at an all time high and the standards for service in general are very low, so with this in mind, I was extremely...
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Lennart Poettering: Linux Plumbers Conference CFP Extended!
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The Call for Papers for the Linux Plumbers Conference in September in Portland, Oregon has been extended until July 31st 2008. It's a conference about the core...
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How Semantic & Intelligent Web are Changing Advertising
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Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb has a post on Semantic Search: “The Myth and Reality” that for the first time made me able to clearly express the benefits of semantic...
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Combining JavaScript and CSS for Performance
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Tenni Theurer of Yahoo! has a new performance post, this time focused on serving files faster by combining them: One performance technique without having to simplify the...
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Google Knol released to beat Wikipedia
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Google released a new service today called Google Knol, a service aimed to take on Wikipedia and in my case will definitely beat it after a while, although there are some...
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New HP-Microsoft Deal Puts Silverlight Everywhere
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In a brilliant move by Microsoft, HP will be installing Live Search on every new HP System! What is even more exciting, is that Silverlight, will be required to run...
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In the beginning, it was Black
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This is the first post of what I would like to believe will be a series of thoughts on creating a good User Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation. I have no...
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Jasmine Park: SkyDriving User Experience
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Meet Jasmine Park, program manager in Windows Live, who works on SkyDrive and FolderShare. Want 5 gigs of free password-protected online file storage? Sign up for...