August, 2008 Archive

IE8 Beta 2 Launched

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

The IE team launched IE8 Beta 2 which can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. You can watch videos of IE8 at http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&user=-3161786097973413883 and http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/videos.aspx. IE8 is a very developer friendly browser. You can download add-ons for IE8 at http://www.ieaddons.com/. Some of my favorite add ons include Web Slices and Accelerators. Some cool features ...

Microsoft adds new features to .NET

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Microsoft has introduced new features in .NET with their Service Pack 1 (SP1) release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Most of the stuff included in the service pack releases is new features and functionality rather than bug fixes and updates to existing feature-set. For example, .NET Framework 3.5 ...

New social media offering

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Image by ocean.flynn via Flickr We just announced a new offering with our social-media partner Pluck and their product code-named AdLife. AdLife will inject social media features like customer comments and user-generated content into digital advertisements such as banner ads or micro sites - in effect, turning mainstream ads ...

How cool is this new search engine - cuil.com ?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

By now almost everyone who keeps an eye on search market is aware of the launch of new search engine - cuil.com. And to my amazement most of us have already given a verdict on this new offering as to if this is a real Google killer or just another ...