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Google Wave

Marius Bancila — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:19:50 +0000

Google has unveil the next product they will launch later this year. It’s called Wave and it’s a communication protocol. It’s like the email of the 21st century, but much more than that. Wave is a collaborative product. The waves are communication objects, both conversation and documents, allowing people to almost instantly communicate on the web.

Waves allow people to send emails, but do it in an instant messaging style, sharing media like pictures and movies and being able to see live what the others are typing or sharing, and playback the entire conversation.

Wave is also an open source platform for building blogging sites or discussion groups. It provides APIs for collaboratively editing documents, building games (and playing back the moves), integrating with other communication systems (like twitter) and others.

To see what wave actually is, see this preview.

You can learn more about the waves here and here.

Microsoft Bing

Marius Bancila — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:42:07 +0000

There is a new search engine in town. It’s called Bing, and was created by Microsoft. Looks like they are going to invest massively in advertising it; according to AdAge, it will be between 80 and 100 million dollars.

You can find a short video here, with Stefan Weitz, the director of Windows Live, talking about what this new search engine bring new.

In addition you can find an article about comparison searches with Bing and Google, here.

Go Bing!

Launch of Sharparena.com

Marius Bancila — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:29:40 +0000

I am please to announce the launch of Sharparena.com, a developer community focused on the .NET framework and the # languages, C#, F# and J#.

This is an English site where you can ask questions about C#, F#, J# and the .NET framework in general, publish articles and stay up to date with news about the development on the .NET framework.

Here are some links:

On the main site you’ll find a series of FAQs about using the site. Consider reading the following for registering and publishing:

See you there!

Google Chrome Beta

Marius Bancila — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:24:17 +0000

According to the official Google Blog, Google is set to release today a beta version of a new web browser, called Chrome. They say that:

Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

There is a comic book available to explain the new browser, and you can find it here.

1st European Silverlight Challenge

Marius Bancila — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:54:14 +0000

INETA Europe in collaboration with Microsoft organized a competition called European Silverlight Challenge, organized on country based, with the winners from each country participating in the European final. It is based on the development of a web component or application using Silverlight for its user interface and with the only condition that it to be published as Open Source (license MS-PL). The competition opened in November and ends in January.

You can read more on the competition, the prizes, the rules and others on the Romanian web page, http://silverlight.ronua.ro.

Yahoo’s Subject-O-Matique

Marius Bancila — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:13:55 +0000

I’m using Yahoo! mail beta, and a couple a day ago I found something intriguing: a feature called ‘Subject-O-Matique’. It is an automatical subject line generator. When you hit the subject button it inserts random (unique) titles such as:

Eating pasta with chopsticks
Pass the timbits!
Space heaters make great house-warming gifts
Boris or Brigitte?
Astonishing feats of MENTALISM!
holy schadenfreude batgirl
I am the kid next door’s imaginary friend
etc.

However, Yahoo! did not invent it. It was part of a web application called Oddpost. It was bought by Yahoo! and now they use this Subject-O-Matique feature.