• PDC 08: Day 3 Highlights

    Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 – Day 3 I missed the Rick Rasid’s keynote because my early-morning Chem4Word teleconference overrun but it was important. I attended the Windows 7 context-aware API talk, which was interesting. The accelerometer-based demo at the end was fun. Lots of socializing today. Attended the second half…

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  • PDC 08: Day 2 Highlights

    Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 – Day 2 (yesterday) Keynote 1: Lots of new technologies… Windows 7, VS.NET 2010, .NET 4.0, Silverlight outside the browser (great demo Marc! :-), and Office apps in the browser. Keynote 2: Don Box and Chris Anderson did a great job at going around the various…

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  • PDC 08: Day 1 Highlights

    Here are some of my highlights of PDC 08 – Day 1 Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia). Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform were announced. The technology is great. Ray‘s appearance was very good (he’s come long ways from the first time I saw him present) and Bob‘s was energetic. Unfortunately, Amitabh’s appearance needs improvement.…

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  • 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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