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Going to Atlanta for the Open Repositories O9 conference
In the next few days I’ll be posting and tweeting about all the MSR-related activities at the Open Repositories 09 conference. I am going there to join the MSRScholarly Communications gang (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Pablo Fernicola) and of…
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Wolfram|Alpha – A knowledge computational engine
I’ve been following all the hype and discussions around Wolfram|Alpha. In few hours it’ll go live. I’ve been lucky enough to have played with it and I like it a lot. I can totally see its potential. I believe that…
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A joke… capturing the Greek mentality towards work
Few nights ago, my friends Sophie and David came over for dinner with my parents. It was a lovely evening. During the dinner conversation, my father said the following joke that I think captures the Greek mentality towards work, especially…
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Murray Sargent’s blog
If you are interested in publishing, equations, Scholarly Communications technologies, or if you just want to learn from a great developer and a really fantastic guy, then I highly recommend Murray‘s blog. He’s a Microsoft veteran and amongst the nicest…
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The Digital Inclusion Hub at Newcastle
Paul Watson, my PhD supervisor, has recently started using twitter. I really love the fact that he’s stays in touch with all the recent technologies 🙂 Amongst other things, he tweets about the Digital Inclusion Hub, an initiative in the…
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My crazy life is going to slow down for a bit (parents are visiting 🙂
The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy, both at work and in my personal life. Since I can’t talk about what’s going on at work, I’ll log the highlights of what has been happening on the social front. I…
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Cool Facebook experiences
Some Microsoft folks developed some new user experiences on top of Facebook‘s newly announced stream API. Very cool. Microsoft shows off Facebook Open Stream API demos from Rafe Needleman on Vimeo.
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“The Commons” is impressive
On Friday I visited “The Commons”, Microsoft‘s latest building complex. It includes restaurants, shops, a football (“soccer” for the Americans) field, basketball, tables and chairs outside. It’s beautiful. It’s like a shopping center inside the Microsoft campus but I am…
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Apologies for the disruption in service
I had a file permissions problem with my hosting service provider (Bizhostnet) so I contacted them in an attempt to find a solution. Unfortunately, their solution was to make a change in the IIS7 application pool that completely disabled all…
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Location awareness and semantic data mashups
One of the main reasons I went through the pain of rewriting the blog engine and restructuring my entire web site was the ease/flexibility of development. I wanted to be able to add new features easily so I could experiment…
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My digital timeline
Well, instead of putting daily notes of what’s going on, I created a “timeline” page that gives access to the history of what I’ve been up to. At the moment, it only gives access to my tweets but over time…
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Apologies for the many “daily notes” posts
There was a bug, which surfaced only on the hosting service*, resulting in multiple “daily notes” being submitted. I didn’t notice it until after >30 of them were added. I have now deleted them and disabled the new feature until…
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Congrats to Theoni and Simran
I was in Vancouver for few days with my friend Meropi. On Saturday, we attended the wedding of my friends Theoni and Simran. It was a beautiful (Indian/Greek wedding)… an all-day event and the party at the end was fantastic.…
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Trying to get control of my data
The services I use on a daily basis seem to take control of my data. They decide what I can access and what gets hidden/archived. In an attempt to get control of my data maintained by such services on the…
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Tools for Repositories Workshop
The Scholarly Communications team in Microsoft Research is organizing a workshop as part of the Open Repositories 09 conference. During the workshop we’ll demonstrate and discuss lots of the technologies we’ve been building over the last couple of years to…