The Virtual Earth team wants our feedback. Wonderful. Kudos to any company that wants its customers’ feedback and offers a participatory approach. So, here’s my feedback… Microsoft added a LOT of whizbang features to its maps.live.com maps (3D, lots of photos, and such) but they didn’t focus on the basics. First off, you need a redesign. Google is kicking your ass on simplicity. Microsoft’s UIs always seem to get more clutter. Your team should hire Ev Williams to come and give his talk that he just gave at LeWeb... lire la suite
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The Virtual Earth team wants our feedback. Wonderful. Kudos to any company that wants its customers’ feedback and offers a participatory approach. So, here’s my feedback… Microsoft added a LOT of whizbang features to its maps. live. com maps (3D, lots of photos, and such) but they didn’t focus on the basics.
OK, Google has added a bunch of new features to its RSS Reader over the past week. What are the big ones? There’s now a social network. Along the left side of Google Reader, I now see an item that says “Friends’ shared items. There’s now a profile that you can share with your readers.
Hey everyone - over the last few months we’ve been working on some new features based on your feedback. The development team is hard at work on multiple concurrent projects (home page, images, comments, etc. which we’ll be releasing over the coming months. We’ll soon be rolling out improvements to the home page that allow you to see all content, including news and videos, on a single page we call “All”.
Wie kann ich (e)MVP werden? Ich werde von Zeit zu Zeit gefragt, was man tun muss, um ein Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP bzw. eMVP für den Embedded-Bereich) zu werden. Generell ist der MVP-Status eine Auszeichnung, die Microsoft an besonders aktive und wertvolle Mitglieder seiner Communities verleiht.
Wie kann ich (e)MVP werden? Ich werde von Zeit zu Zeit gefragt, was man tun muss, um ein Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP bzw. eMVP für den Embedded-Bereich) zu werden. Generell ist der MVP-Status eine Auszeichnung, die Microsoft an besonders aktive und wertvolle Mitglieder seiner Communities verleiht.
Getting to know Silverlight 2. Beta 1 What we've been up to in DevDiv. Today, Scott put up a mammoth post introducing the upcoming Silverlight 2. Beta 1. His post includes an 8 (yes, 8! part walk through building out an application using it. I really have to hand it to Scott on this one, and I'm not just kissing up because he's my boss.
When I get back to California I always queue up this Beach Boys song. Puts a smile on my face and gets me back in the spirit. It' s a great song cause it' s not just a great California song it also says how great the whole USA is. I love this country, north, south, east and west, but coming home is getting back to the great weather, clear sunshine, warm days and cool people with the attitude and politics I'
Download a free trial You can now submit your bugs or feedback directly to the Groove product team. The Groove team has set up a new Microsoft Connect site to allow you to submit and track your bugs. These bugs go directly into the product team's bug database. The bugs are handled the same as bugs submitted by internal Groove developers and testers.
A series of three posts regarding configuring and understanding one of the top reasons that SharePoint Engineers call product support, good old Alternate Access Mapping, AAM. Heck, I am still trying to wrap my head around this and make it stick. From the The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Blog (while you are there, add them to your rss reading list)
NEW YORK — Microsoft's Kevin Johnson is pushing "engagement mapping," a technology used to track the ads consumers viewed on the Web before they purchased a product. As he put it to Fortune, "We think paid search is getting more credit than it deserves. Ad buyers here at the EconAds conference told the crowd they don't buy it.
by Dave Fuller Charlotte Bobcats Current Record: th (Southeast), 12th (East) Predicted Record: th (Southeast), 13th (East) Predicted Playoff Outcome: NIP'd (Not In Playoffs) NIP'd, you know, like nipped in the bud? Nevermind. Brandan Wright was dealt to the Golden State Warriors, Jason Richardson left Warriors fans booing (wrongly) at the move that brought him to Charlotte, and the Bobcats suddenly became an interesting team.
With Yahoo! opening its 2008 fantasy baseball this week, many fantasy baseball players will be looking for the best fantasy baseball names they can find. What better time to kick-off the third annual Fake Teams' Best Fantasy Baseball Names Contest. For those working in government and corporate bureaucracies, the acronnym is FTBFBNC.
Sunday night, I had the pleasure of participating in a mock draft with a number of fantasy bloggers for Seamless Baseball's 2008 fantasy guide. My fellow experts were: Pete Abbate and Zach Piso of Rotonomics Bob Taylor of Fantasy Hurler Brad Stewart of MLB Front Office Tim McLeod of RotoRob
The Baseball America Prospect Handbook 2008 is an excellent reference guide for the fantasy player who is looking for an edge when it comes to upcoming rookies and for those in deeper keeper leagues. Right on the cover is this declaration, "The Secret Weapon For Fantasy League Success. This year's edition includes some specific information the fantasy player will find valuable.
Update [2008-3-6 10: by Eric Hz]: An NL-only LABR roster is in the Comment section. This from Rotoscoop. Chris Liss of Rotowire participated in the AL-Only LABR draft recently. He was kind enough to post his draft results in Rotowire's blog along with his own strategy and analysis of his picks.
I just finished an appearance on Melnick and Greco Fantasy Sports radio show broadcasting live from Mickey Mantle's Restaurant in NYC. Thank you guys and keep up the great work. On to the "Spring Training Boxscores: Fantasy Notes" for March 21, 2008. Unrivaled starting SS for the Baltimore Orioles, Luis Hernandez, stole his second base of the Spring.
Join the Official Faketeams 4x4 NL only Roto League! Compete against Eric, the burro, 5150bosox and the rest of the gang to see who has the best "Faketeam"! To Join us. Go to: Yahoo. com Fantasy Baseball League name: NL4x4Hardballers Faketeamscom ID# 215149
Here is the rest of my interview/conversation with Matthew Berry, fantasy expert at ESPN. com. Remember I have "fictionalized" the conversation into a standard Q&A format. Mr. Berry and I spoke for an hour, and I took notes. Without an recording, I can not provide his answers verbatim.
Right now there's only one site I check daily for NFL Draft News, and that's Mocking The Draft, our SBNation sister blog covering everything you need to know about the NFL Draft. It's also hosting the SBNation NFL Mock Draft, which is now finishing up the 2nd round. It's a great blog and I highly recommend it.
Hey FakeTeams, Today is the big day. We've switched your community over to the new SB Nation sports blog platform. My name is Trei, and I'm here to help you get adjusted to the new home we've built for you. If you have questions or trouble with the new system, post a comment in this thread and myself or one of the team (lovitt, sixfoot6 or odacrem) will try to point you in the right direction.