Quoted: Google's Chrome browser passes anything you type into the address bar that isn't an obvious URI on to the default search engine.While web browsers should have some built-in smarts, they can never match the collective intelligence of a worldwide search engine. For example:weather San Francisco CSCO time London san francisco 49ers 5*9+(sqrt 10)^3= Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow

Quoted: I’ve mentioned to a few people that I recently set my kids up with PCs.  I think back to my first interactions with a computer when I was very young.  My parents bought an Acer IBM Clone from Fingerhut.  I learned so much from using that machine … in an effort to play prince of persia at school, my brother taught me how to make a boot disk to boot the

Quoted: While hacking on a sideproject I came up with today, I was trying to find a way to describe the differencebetween Facebook & Twitter given how my wife uses both services and came up withthe following TWITTER: Get up to the minute reports on what celebrities, who have no idea who youare, had for breakfast FACEBOOK: Get up to the minute reports on

Quoted: I am very pleased to announce the availability of  CCI. Herman Venter from Microsoft Research released CCI at http://ccimetadata.codeplex.com/ . CCI is a set of components (libraries) that provide some of the functionality that compilers and related programming tools tend to have in common. The metadata components provide functionality for reading,

Quoted: Last week, Digg announced the launch of the DiggBar whichmanages to combine two trends that Web geeks can't stand. It is both a URL shortener(whose problems are captured in the excellent post by Joshua Schachter onURL shorteners) and brings back the trend of one website putting another's contentin a frame (which has detailed criticism in the wikipediaarticle

Quoted: In my MIX talk I told that for 2k reads, we take 3ms. It is actually the case under load where the servers are straining. Here is a latest performance shot that we got with the CTP3 bits. Bulk APIs: Note that these numbers are without any bulk operations. With bulk gets (we are trying to add a Bulk Get in RTM timeframe within a region) we get upwards

Quoted: Today I’m happy to write that ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTW (Release To Web) is now officially released. This was one of several announcements ScottGu made at the Mix 09 conference today, which I unfortunately missed because I was on a plane to Vegas enroute to Mix 09. I was busy  back at the mother ship making sure everything was in order for the release.

Quoted: I was struck by the conclusion of Andy Oram's thoughtful piece on the next generation of online forums.People who want to learn more about computer technology and solve problems they encounter on their systems currently have a wealth of forums to turn to: mailing lists and newsgroups, official and unofficial documentation (which may be distributed on