• In LA for PDC08

    I am sooo excited 🙂 Lots of technology-related announcements. A geek’s dream 🙂 PDC 08.

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  • I am yellow

    I went through a psychometrics evaluation recently as part of a group activity in Microsoft. It was extremely interesting to find out about the characteristics of different personalities. Of course, we should always treat such tests with a grain of salt. We are all individuals with our unique characteristics. We constantly get input about our…

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  • Concert updates

    I recently went to see Sigur Ros with friend who had an extra ticket. I really enjoyed it. Good energy and great show. Photos below. Tonight I am seeing Death Cub for Cutie again (loved them at Sasquatch) supporting Neil Young… what a weird combination, but “hey hey, my my” 🙂 I decided that tonight…

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  • Podcast about Famulus and supporting the Scholarly Communications lifecycle

    Paul Miller from Talis interviewed Alex and me the other day. You can listen all about our Research Output Repository Platform (codename “Famulus”) and the rest of our tooling in the podcast.

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  • SWORD plugin binary release

    We got requests for a binary release. So I tried creating an installer (checked in) and uploaded the first build. If you encounter problems, let me know. Feel free to go and change the code if you want 🙂 OfficeSWORD codeplex project.

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  • Research-Output Repository Platform (codename Famulus) Beta 1 is Live!

    I am soooo excited to announce the first public beta release of the Research-Output Repository Platform (codename “Famulus”)*. It’s been a lot of fun working on Famulus for the last few months and the entire team is extremely excited to make it available to the community. Here’s the intro from the download page. MSR’s Research…

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  • SWORD plugin for Word 2007

    When we started thinking about what we could do to support researchers with tools and services, interoperability with existing formats, protocols, and services was amongst our primary goals. The Conference Management Tool (CMT), eJournal, Chem4Word, Creative Commons plugin for Office 2007, “Famulus”, etc. are all trying to implement as many of the community standards that…

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  • Oh dear…

    I am seriously embarrassed that Microsoft produced this video 🙁 And I am scheduled to attend PDC08 🙁

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  • What happened to MEST? Why are we talking about the Web?

    Bill de h ra made a comment on Stefan Tilkov‘s post about our “How to GET a Cup of Coffee” article… Q205: “I feel that I have learned a lot from the discussions with the REST folks and together with Jim we hope to move that understanding forward to service-oriented computing with our upcoming MEST paper.”…

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  • “How to GET a Cup of Coffee”

    My “web book” co-authors (Jim and Ian) and I worked on a fun article for InfoQ about how Web technologies could be used to support a “cup of coffee ordering” scenario. It was really fun working on the article and I am pleased with the ideas conveyed. Your comments/feedback are more than welcome! “How to…

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