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Bit of a result: Microsoft platform is best to develop web apps on

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:35 PM by James Senior
Well I never.  Having been at the Future of Web Apps conference last year and hearing a "leading" web 2.0 company say they had no idea what Microsoft had in the form of authentication and identity APIs having reeled of options from Google, Read More...
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Web 2.0 Pattern Mining workshop

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:05 AM by James Senior
The Live Labs team have news of a Web 2.0 Pattern Mining workshop taking place in Zurich at the end of June.  The overview is this: Web 2.0 features are now commonplace—blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social bookmarking and the like are almost everywhere Read More...
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Social Bookmarking Plugin

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:26 PM by James Senior
Thanks to Scott who pointed out a rather tasty plugin for Live Writer that adds Social Bookmarking tags to your blog post automatically - nice. This chap is responsible for it and the first thing I did was modify the text files that come with it to include Read More...
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BBC goes Web 2.0

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:35 PM by James Senior
Interesting that the Beeb have got their Web 2.0 thinking hat on and have started adding bookmark links at the end of each news story which link to Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Facebook and StumbleUpon really easily. Clicking through to "What are these?" Read More...
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Windows Live Quick Apps - Mashup apps with source code

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:19 PM by James Senior
Steve Ballmer announced today two example apps that show off how to put the Live Services we have on offer to use. The apps "Contoso Bicycle Club" and "Contoso University" were developed by two UK Parters, AWS and Conchango in association with Microsoft Read More...
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Calling all web design and web developer students - event to learn about Microsoft's web technologies

Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:15 PM by James Senior
I learnt about this particular event through Mark Johnston's blog and it's a great opportunity for students to learn about Microsoft's web technologies. It's a full day of goodness with two tracks, one for design students and the other for developers. Read More...
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How to save $1,000,000 on your IT deployment and support with application virtualisation

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:58 PM by James Senior
Well, it depends a lot on your individual circumstances as a organisation but the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle have managed to do save $1,000,000. Their IT is quite big with 500 applications across 4,500 desktops and 150 thin desktops and they have Read More...
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Silverlight - release your style

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 4:52 PM by James Senior
Light up the Web Silverlight (codename WPF/E) is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash (estimated to be running rich web based experiences on 95% of the world’s PCs and Macs). The goal is to provide the most natural and seamless method with which to design Read More...
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Pipe Dreams courtesy of Yahoo!

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:43 PM by James Senior
I came across this rather groundbreaking application from Yahoo! the other week and I really have to hand it to the developers over there - this is very, very cool. I'm talking about something called " Pipes " which is currently in beta and which will Read More...
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Rightmove.co.uk using Virtual Earth

Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:49 PM by James Senior
I used Rightmove.co.uk to find my current appartment in Reading and it does a brilliant job of bringing together properties from various estate and letting agents from across the UK. I was pleased to find out ( via Mike Taulty's blog ) that they have Read More...
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BackOfMyHand.com Mashup

Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 10:20 AM by James Senior
I was finding some stuff using Live.com over the weekend and noticed this rather nifty mashup based on Live Maps called BackOfMyHand.com . You can get local information on things like best romantic restaurants in London to what to see in Oxford . The Read More...
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