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http://flickrvision.com/ beta

mikelan — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:44:00 GMT

The makers of twittervision are back with a new twist.. http://flickrvision.com/

3 cool things to see on the net today.

mikelan — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:09:00 GMT

1. Windows Mobile oPhone

2. J Allard’s Presspass photo

3. MSFT signs deal for 2 new web shows

International S.O.B Week ( May 14 through May 18 )

mikelan — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:08:00 GMT

That’s right. The first annual Support Our Bloggers Week is right around the corner. Participation is easy, just make a list of the blogs you like and send each blogger one quick piece of feedback. Keep it simple. Something like “I like your blog” or “Keep blogging” will work fine.

It you want extra credit, add “… .. _ _..” to the end of your post. It’s Morse code for SOB.

All bloggers yearn for blog comments. There’s a desire, when you feel you’ve posted something special, to know people are really reading it. I even know bloggers that don’t allow comments because they fear blogger rejection. Blogger rejection is the pain of knowing someone could comment, but didn’t.

The upside of participating in S.O.B. week is that is gets you registered on the blogs you read. You’ll be ready to jump into the conversation the next time you have something real to add.

Coolest end user feature of Longhorn Beta 3

mikelan — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:38:00 GMT

Server is boring… right? You won’t catch a user stowed away in your datacenter just to play with Server Manager’s new role interface.. I’ve never seen people lined up outside a Best Buy trying to get their hands on the latest and greatest Group Policy changes. There are some cool features for us end users, the real consumers of the product that we never see unless it’s through the snazzy secure-looking glass windows on the “meet our IT guys” tour.

RemoteApp is something I found that makes Longhorn “cool” for the guys/gals on the receiving end of an upgrade.

2 years ago, my dodge ball team CRUSHED the TS team at the local gym and, as this has nothing to do with TS, it just needed to be said. From the TS docs - RemoteApp programs are programs that are accessed remotely through Terminal Services and appear as if they are running on the end user's local computer. Users can run RemoteApp programs side by side with their local programs. A user can minimize, maximize, and resize the program window, and can easily start multiple programs at the same time. That’s cool.

Drop a comment if you think you have a cooler end user feature for Longhorn.