By Antonio Chagoury on
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Last week Microsoft released the Virtual Earth Map Control v6 API. Here are some of the details:
Some of the major focuses of this release are enhanced accuracy, performance, Safari Browser support as well as a new interface. There seems to have been no report of breaking changes from version 5, so a simple change in the javascript URL sh ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Monday, October 22, 2007
"Microsoft is unveiling a series of upgrades and additions to SharePoint that it believes will appeal to business users as well as to individual consumers."
This is a direct result of the recent Microsoft announcement of the strategic alliance with Atlassian and NewsGator.
Atlassian's Confluence product is making its way into the SharePoint's stack by way of a plug-in. This plug-in allows information to be shared between the Confluence Wiki application and SharePoint.
A beta version of the plug-in is available here.
NewsGator's Social Sites product built specifically for SharePoint will add more functionality such as an improved RSS Reader, Feed Manager, Tagging and other Web 2.0 and social networking widg ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Sunday, October 21, 2007
 Microsoft Live Labs, is always experimenting with new and (sometimes) useful ideas. Recently they released their latest technology preview:
Listas is a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and more. It allows you to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for reading or wiki-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users. We encourage you to try using it for meeting notes, bookmarks, shopping lists, to plan a night out, or whatever other creative ways you can think of.
In the Listas Community Section, you will find a number of highlights of the ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
 Two little hands, two little feet, now our family is delightfully complete!
Proudly announcing John Hanein-Chagoury.
Born Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 12:35 P.M.
7 pounds, 10 ounces and 21 inches long.
Mom and John are doing great.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
Sunday, September 30, 2007
As it turns out, technology adoption is directly related to the user's experience.
Ben Gardner agrees. Ben works for a large blue chip pharmaceutical company in the UK. Ben has a very difficult job as he is responsbile for getting corporate users to adopt Windows Sharepoint Services.
He made an interesting post where he says:
If I'm going to have to promote SharePoint in my organisation then this sort of skin job would be a god send. I realise that out of the box SharePoint can already do most of this but this re ...
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