Virtualization and Cloud Computing Real-time Feeds!

davidzi — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:26:33 GMT

As mentioned here and in a few other posts, I’ve been using Friendfeed and Twitter quite a bit over the last couple months. I’ve been extremely impressed with Friendfeed in particular. I’ve created two Friendfeed groups that I’ve been posting content to in addition to my main feed. The groups are:

Microsoft Virtualization

Cloud Infrastructure

Their focus is self explanatory but consist of posts, comments, etc. from a variety of sources that I find relevant to each of those topics. The feeds also include posts from the relevant categories from this blog. Please join these groups if you have interest in these areas.

While these feeds are available over on the Friendfeed website, I’m also leveraging a feature they just rolled out around real-time search. If you scroll down the sidebar in my blog, you will see links to two new pages I’ve added:

Virtualization

http://blogs.technet.com/davidzi/pages/virtualization.aspx

Cloud Infrastructure

http://blogs.technet.com/davidzi/pages/cloud-infrastructure.aspx

These pages embed Friendfeed real-time searches scoped to the groups I created and will therefore update in real-time whenever I post or share new content to the group. If you want a wider scope in your results, take out the group: tag and put in any keyword you want such as “virtualization” and you will get updating results each time someone posts something to Friendfeed with that term.

For folks with similar interests, I think these feeds will be valuable as my goal is to highlight the top couple of articles, posts, etc that I come across each day out of the 50 – 100 that I read. Enjoy!

Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!

davidzi — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:56:15 GMT

So I’ve been using Seesmic Desktop as a Twitter and Facebook client for the last week or two. Very cool app built on Adobe Air. Today via @EverythingMS I heard about sobees, a .NET app that aggregates Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed (yeah!), and many other sources. I’ve only just started using it in the last hour but it looks very slick. In addition to bringing in a bunch of networks, it really shows off .NET/WPF and what you can do with UI design. It supports full Aero transparency, the ability to zoom text sizes in and out, multi-monitor support and a bunch of other UI niceties. There are several color themes available and a wide range of layout options for arranging the services. As an FYI it seems to run fine so far on my Windows 7 RC installation.

I don’t know anything about the makers of the software yet so other than pointing out that it looks like a cool beta implementation your mileage may vary.

Below you can see a screenshot of three services (you can add in more) updating in real-time (Note: I blanked out some of the Facebook status on purpose). Definitely worth checking out. They also have a video up if you wan to see it in action.

David Ziembicki on Infrastructure Architecture : Twitter

Virtualization and Cloud Computing Real-time Feeds!

Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!