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Om Malik: Broadband In The Boonies

A “new” BizTalk developer resource

Although this blog clearly isn’t new (I saw a count of 114 BizTalk-related posts), Richard Seroter’s BizTalk blog is one of the best BizTalk resources I’ve run across. Ever. Case in point, check out his post on processing binary documents via BizTalk Web services. What I like about his blog is how he provides detail [...]

BizTalk Server 2006 and Web services

The BizTalk Server team maintains an FAQ for BizTalk Web services features that has been updated since the BizTalk Server 2006 release. The FAQ references great documentation on creating web ports, adding references, and publishing Web services from BizTalk. You can also find more on orchestrations of Web services with these links. If you’re a [...]

Don’t even try to “google”

Steve Rubel: “Google has fired off a series of legal letters to the media, asking them not to use the name of the company as a verb… This has to go down as one of the worst PR moves in history.”

O’Reilly on Google Trends

Tim O’Reilly: “I thought I’d pass along the thought for those of you with time on your hands this weekend Many of the examples on the Google Trends home page have interesting shapes, but here are a few of the fun searches Kevin mentioned:
Periodicity: cinco de mayo vs. groundhog day
Seasonality: shorts vs. sweaters
Short attention [...]

Security in the wake of new threats

Bruce Schneier: “Hours-long waits in the security line. Ridiculous prohibitions on what you can carry onboard. Last week’s foiling of a major terrorist plot and the subsequent airport security graphically illustrates the difference between effective security and security theater…
The goal of a terrorist is to cause terror. Last week’s arrests demonstrate how real security doesn’t [...]

Microsoft’s anti-virus progress

c|net: “Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare landed the No. 2 spot in sales at American stores in its debut month, according to The NPD Group… OneCare hit U.S. store shelves in late May, three years after Microsoft announced its intent to move into the antivirus realm. The product combines antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall software with backup [...]

The Soulard Idea Market- A successful (yet unheralded) venture

Almost no one has talked about the success of last week’s Soulard Idea Market. Matt Homann did a great job putting on the event- the venue was excellent and it was a great “trial run” for what I anticipate to be a larger and more regularly scheduled event in the St. Louis area in the future. [...]

This is so Web 2.0

Nick Carr and Mike Arrington are set to joust over the emerging Google ice cream scandal. TechCrunch commenters are trying to tie Microsoft in with allegations about Windows Vista sparkling water. I expect Yahoo to get pulled into this mess any minute now.

Windows Live Writer now public

Just released from Windows Live- the Windows Live Writer. This new client supports posting to Windows Live Spaces and a variety of other blogging services that support the MetaWeblog and Movable Type APIs. There are some interesting ties to other Windows Live services that are accomplished through the Writer client, including map references, photo storage and [...]