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Choo Choo train in downtown Seattle
Remember the “No pants light rail ride“? This time we did a “Choo Choo train” in downtown Seattle 🙂 Like before, it was organized by the “Emerald City Improv“. That was last Sunday and it was soooo much fun. There were so many surprised and/or laughing faces of people as the train was going around.…
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My “Olympic” Vancouver weekend
It’s been some time since my last “travel” blog entry. I still plan to write about the fun/skiing week in Italy but I am not finding the free time to finish the video I am editing 🙁 Last weekend, I rode my motorbike to Vancouver to experience some of the Olympic Games vide, hang out…
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The Zentity team is soliciting feedback
The Zentity team is soliciting your feedback. They just broadcasted a message that I thought might be good to redistribute through this blog as well. Please note that the deadline for paper submission is FAST approaching. I’m looking forward to seeing all the things that the Zentity community is doing with the platform. Furthermore, if…
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“To Risk” by William Arthur Ward
Today at yoga (yes, I woke up at 5.15am again for a 6.30 class ), our lovely instructor Jen shared a poem with us that I really liked: “To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement, To expose feelings…
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My Twitter and Facebook streams will soon get a divorce
I use my social streams and digital recordings of what I do in real life as part of a personal mutli-year investigation into semantics and digital memory. For some time now, my Twitter steam was mirrored to my Facebook one and archived on my blog, as part of “life as it happens“. I am seriously…
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Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest
I just remembered that the Science Commons Symposium is taking place this coming Saturday. It’s promising to be a very cool event, organized by my friends over at External Research in Microsoft Research. I am really looking forward to it. The list of speakers is impressive! If you are around and haven’t joined, I encourage…
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Blaise amazes again
When Blaise first presented Photosynth at TED few years ago, everyone was amazed. Well, the work that he’s been doing over at Bing Maps is starting to show off and it’s absolutely wonderful. I just watched his recent presentation on “augmented-realy maps”. Blaise and his team continue to innovate big time! (Note by Savas: Embeded…
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Cloud Computing economics and developers
I am really enjoying the work that my new team does. We are a Cloud-focused team. I am really looking forward to when we are going to be in a position to talk in public about what we are building. I am learning a lot and the people in the team are fantastic! The…
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The “No Pants Light Rail Ride” event
Last Sunday, Michele, Dave, and I participated in the “No Pants Light Rail Ride” event. Similar events take place in major US cities every year. This one was the first one in Seattle. It was an absolute blast. We had such a good time! Just looking at the expressions of unexpected passengers was great 🙂…
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Tony Hey is BLOGGING (finally!!! 🙂
It’s been long time in the making but, finally, Tony is blogging 🙂 In fact, it seems that the entire External Research team might be posting through the same blog. Definitely worth following! And no, I am not just saying this because it’s my previous team and I really like everyone over there 🙂 External…