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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…
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“Small Pleasures”
Last February, I linked to a video, which I thought was very powerful, from Konstantinos Pilavios. Here’s another one called “Small Pleasures” (make sure you watch it all the way to the end). Small Pleasures (?????? ?a???) 2008 from MovieTeller on Vimeo. (thanks to Ioannis Kavouras for the link)
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“REST in Practice” on Facebook
Our upcoming book (tentative title: “REST in Practice”) has a Facebook page, so go become a fan. We are going to start posting news/updates about the book soon. You’ll also be able to ask questions, monitor our progress, and give us feedback. However, if you are not a Facebook fan, you can always contact us…
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Another great day of skiing
Tini, Nuno, and I went to Stevens Pass today. It was a beautiful beautiful day. Blue sky and sunshine. The snow was not great. The runs were a bit icy but the beautiful day made up for it. No powder unfortunately 🙁 Stevens Pass is not like Whistler for sure, not even close. However, it’s…
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5mins with Michael Palin
I loved, of course, Michael Palin in all the Monty Python sketches and movies but I used to be soooo envious (and still am) of his travels for his documentary series. He’s been to 94 countries and not just touching down… he’s really visited and explored those countries. BBC News has a 5-min interview with…