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Tony Hey to keynote at OGF 20
I won’t be at OGF20 (attending W3C’s WWW 2007 instead) but my manager, Tony Hey, will be there. He will be delivering one of the two keynotes. His working title is “The Social Grid” and this is the abstract: The community…
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Glastonbury, here I come!
Woo hoo! After 45 mins of continuously dialing (using my cell phone and Skype), I was able to get through and buy Glastonbury tickets for myself, Carole, David, and Meropi. I am soooo excited. Glastonbury 2007, here we come again!
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China trip over, next stop MIX 07
My trip in China just finished. I am safely back home and looking forward to my next trip, next week. It was a fantastic visit. I was fascinated by the work that MSR Asia is doing and the great number…
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Wow! Cool! Xbox Live original TV content.
The Xbox team continues to do great things. Now, if only they listen to our encouragements and enable networking on the XNA platform so that we can see some cool, distributed computing scientific applications 🙂
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Landed in Beijing
I am very excited. Although I am tired, I am off to start exploring. Tomorrow, I am spending a full day at the prestigious Tsinghua University talking to engineers about a project with which we are going to be involved on distributed, large-scale…
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China, Mix, and W3C’s WWW07
So, I am on my way to China today but there is more traveling ahead and opportunities to reconnect with the community. I am going to be at Mix 07 in Las Vegas from 29th April to 2nd May. Then it’s…
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Beijing for a week
I am so looking forward to this trip. I am going to be engaged on a technical level with a couple of projects in China (related to social networking and the power grid) so I hope I’ll be a frequent visitor…
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NASA in Second Life and "Open Sourcing" the Space Program
I just read this post over at Slashdot. NASA is using SecondLife to “Open Source” some of the activities and encourage public participation. Very interesting use of social networking (isn’t SecondLife really a type of a social network? A network of…
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"Pearls Before Breakfast"
Non-technology related (soon I hope to have categories on this blog) Interesting article on our appreciation of art. Of course I believe that art is always subjective but I found that the article does convey a point about our fast…
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Domain name troubles still ahead
Just a quick update! The process is taking longer than expected and the domain name troubles may still be ahead of us. There is a good chance of my personal email and this website not working for 5-6 days in…
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XIOS – A "CloudOS"
This space is heating up. I signed up for a beta account. XIOS is an OS that can be launched from a Web browser but then can continue to operate while offline? Hmmm… What’s the difference between that a .NET…
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No email/no web for a week!
My domain name adventures continue. savas@parastatidis.name will not work and the web site will not be accessible for about a week. Apologies to all for the inconvenience. This is frustrating but it seems to be the only way 🙁 You…
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From the Web: "Free Hugs Campaign"
One of the YouTube awarded videos. Brilliant!
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At Microsoft Mashup Day… Looks fun
Just arrived at the 4th Microsoft Mashup Day (here’s a video from one of the past events). It’s really fun. This is my second one and I am planning to take the opportunity to do some work with the Windows…
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There may be blog/web/email troubles ahead
I just wanted to let you know that there might be some troubles with my domain name in the next few days. I am trying to transfer from register.com to godaddy.com and renew my domain registration for another 9 years in…