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3/8/2010 7:15 AMGreat New Resource! Microsoft Office Web Apps Resource CenterOne of the most anticipated new features in the soon to be released Office System 2010 are the Microsoft Office Web Applications. Microsoft Office Web Applications provide read and write capability for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, all through the SharePoint interface. For those looking to learn more, get their hands dirty with them, and more, there is now a great site to get started with. Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Office Web Apps Resource Center. Some of the site contents include: - Microsoft Office Web Applications Download
- Documentation on planning and deploying Microsoft Office Web Applications
- Operation documentation for Microsoft Office Web Applications
- … and more
This is definitely a site to place in your favorites. Check out the Microsoft Office Web Apps Resource Center 3/3/2010 12:50 PMProductivity Adventure with Windows Phone, IncaX, and the Office of Naval Research
**The following is a repost of an entry I did on the Windows Phone blog on Monday, re-shared here in case you missed it.
With all the buzz lately around the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series it’s easy to lose site of some of the amazing things that can already be accomplished today with Windows Phones as a part of the powerfully integrated Microsoft stack. Last week I had the pleasure of spending a day with some amazing folks who are doing some incredible things with Windows Phone, Microsoft Azure, Silverlight, Bing Maps, SharePoint, Photosynth and more all brought to life by the geocast goodness of Microsoft partner IncaX. Office of Naval Research (ONR), has been utilizing these technologies to help the US Navy as well as local law enforcement on the North Carolina coastline to evaluate the capabilities of their emergency response units. Conceived by Dano Debroux, Director, Disruptive Business Technologies (ONR), and supported by IncaX, HP, and Microsoft, the geocast efforts by the Office of Naval Research are a great demonstration of how the Microsoft technology can be used in a variety of extreme situations, including military, law enforcement, disaster relief, and more.
In today’s video we head out on another Productivity Adventure and see the work that has been done by the ONR first hand. To see its initial use we will observe a sea based emergency response scenario. We also hear how the use of these technologies has been received in the field and they are impacting training exercise evaluations. Finally, we actually get to head out in to the field with some great folks form the US Navy where we stimulant an insurgent bomb placement to test sensor equipment and special response team effectiveness. In the final scenario we actually carry HP Glisten Windows Phones to capture and transmit the entire mission. Although the video is somewhat unpolished, I think you will still find the use of geocasting in the scenarios pretty compelling.
Geocast Video
The scenarios portrayed are really enabled through the power of IncaX LiveMedia GPS, a solution built entirely on the Microsoft stack. Though running today on existing Windows Phones, IncaX is already poised to deliver new enhanced capability for the next generation Windows Phone 7 Series.
To learn more about the technologies presented and to begin leveraging the power of geocasting and geolocation services use the links below:
3/3/2010 12:25 PMSite Video Viewing By CountryThe other day Vimeo, my present video hosting provider, introduced a number of new tracking features. On feature I found particularly fun and interesting was the countries visiting. As I would have expected most visits are from the United States but it was interesting to see where all my other viewers are coming from and where they rank relative to each other for visits. :-) | United States | | Great Britain (UK) | | Germany | | Canada | | India | | Denmark | | Sweden | | Australia | | Brazil | | France | | Netherlands | | Japan | | Spain | | Chile | | Russian Federation | | Italy | | Turkey | | Philippines | | Poland | | Korea (South) | | Singapore | | Portugal | | Saudi Arabia | | Taiwan | | Switzerland | | Finland | | Malaysia | | Belgium | | New Zealand (Aotearoa) | | Hong Kong | | Norway | | Israel | | Czech Republic | | Hungary | | Thailand | | Romania | | Greece | | South Africa | | Mexico | | Austria | | Argentina | | Ireland | | Indonesia | | Egypt | | Ukraine | | Slovak Republic | | Lithuania | | Iran | | Bulgaria | | Colombia | | Pakistan | | Viet Nam | | Latvia | | Puerto Rico | | Brunei Darussalam | | Peru | | Malta | | Cambodia | | Estonia | | United Arab Emirates | | Cyprus | | Belarus | | Venezuela | | Morocco | | Sri Lanka | | Slovenia | | Georgia | | Czechoslovakia | | Iceland | | Bangladesh | | Bolivia | | Dominican Republic | | Luxembourg | | Ecuador | | Jordan | | Croatia (Hrvatska) | | Costa Rica | | Kazakhstan | | Kuwait | | Bahrain | | Tunisia | | F.Y.R.O.M. (Macedonia) | | Bosnia and Herzegovina | | Algeria | | Jamaica | | Maldives | | Paraguay | | Mongolia | | Barbados | | Nigeria | | Iraq | | Senegal | | Faroe Islands | | Trinidad and Tobago | | Lebanon | | Bermuda | | Qatar | | Sudan | | Bahamas | | Libya | | Kenya | | Panama | | Ethiopia | | Yemen | | Oman | | Antigua and Barbuda | | Uruguay | | Gibraltar | | Syria | | Armenia | | Netherlands Antilles | | Moldova | | Macau | | Mauritius | | Gabon | | Azerbaijan | | Cuba | | Tanzania | | Guatemala | | El Salvador | | Palestinian Territory | | Botswana | 3/1/2010 7:39 AMCheck Out “Productivity Adventure with Windows Phone, IncaX, and the Office of Naval Research”I just posted a new guest piece to the Windows Phone blog and it is one to check out if you want to see the integrated Microsoft stack at work in real world extreme conditions. The post is titled Productivity Adventure with Windows Phone, IncaX, and the Office of Naval Research and features a video where; “In today’s video we head out on another Productivity Adventure and see the work that has been done by the ONR first hand. To see its initial use we will observe a sea based emergency response scenario. We also hear how the use of these technologies has been received in the field and they are impacting training exercise evaluations. Finally, we actually get to head out in to the field with some great folks form the US Navy where we stimulant an insurgent bomb placement to test sensor equipment and special response team effectiveness. In the final scenario we actually carry HP Glisten Windows Phones to capture and transmit the entire mission.” 
2/25/2010 7:25 AMRemote Blob Storage Today For SharePoint FREE!!!I woke up this morning and saw an internal email that really caught my attention. Shrinking the size of SharePoint databases through remote blob storage is a highly desirable state for many orgs where they are using SharePoint as a part of a records archive solution. Up until now there have been a few great solutions out there by different infrastructure management software companies but today I saw the first being offered for FREE!!!! Yes you read that correctly FREE! AvePoint is one of Microsoft’s prime go to partners for SharePoint infrastructure management and they have now released a valuable resource to assist organizations looking to shrink their database size. The following is from their site: “Reduce the size of your SharePoint Content DB’s by up to 95% with the free DocAve Extender. Instantly offload SharePoint BLOBs to file-based storage for optimal platform performance and reduced database costs. The Case for Extending BLOBs Databases like SQL Server are designed to handle relational data of relatively small size (typically less than 1MB). However, when it comes to larger, non-relational data streams, known as Binary Large Objects (or BLOBs), databases like SQL are not optimal. This is because managing BLOB I/O calls takes up substantial SQL CPU and memory resources. Since more than 95% of the data a typical organization uploads into SharePoint are BLOBS, SharePoint’s SQL resources become quite overburdened, and have less capacity to perform transactional data operations and queries. To avoid this, organizations have a few options. The first option is to spend money on additional SQL Server resources. But SQL Server licensing is relatively expensive when compared to file-based storage, so this is not the most cost-effective route. The second, more cost-efficient option is to extend this BLOB content directly to file-based storage, while providing unfettered user access to the BLOB content via SharePoint. To do this, administrators can either: - Write custom code that leverages Microsoft’s APIs to create their own BLOB management functionality
- Buy some expensive third party tool
- Use AvePoint’s FREE DocAve Extender.
With DocAve Extender, BLOBs are never stored on the SQL Server database, meaning SharePoint can perform optimally, your SQL Server resources can be utilized efficiently, and your database costs can be kept to an absolute minimum." So if you are looking to reduce the size of your archival data stores in SharePoint check out AvePoint’s solution! 2/23/2010 6:35 AMGeocast: Shoot-out And Thanks To ONR, US Navy, And IncaX For The Productivity Adventure!Monday, 2-22-1020 I had the pleasure of spending the day with some great folks from the Office of Naval Research, US Navy, and others to video and observe the amazing work they were doing utilizing the Windows Phone Platform and IncaX LiveMedia GPS. It was quite a day and I am very much looking forward to putting together all the footage later this week for a video webisode to be published next week on the Windows Phone blog. It is an episode you do not want to miss. 
2/17/2010 6:45 AMVideo: Empowering End Users With Social Media Video Production
The use of video in today's social media world has become quite mainstream. Video is a powerful messaging medium capable of delivering a much richer experience to end users than print, at a much easier entry point for the content contributor. Devices like the Flip camcorder and other make it as easy as point and clicking. Organizations that understand the power of video in social media are seeking new ways to leverage it and empower a greater array of users to become content contributors. In this episode of the Social Media Samurai I discuss: 1-my recent purchase of a Flip for my wife and why 2-First hand experience in enabling roving videographers for content generation 3-Cisco’s efforts during this Olympics to empower the athletes themselves as content contributors.
Empowering Users Video
The following are links to individuals and resources cited in the video:
![socialmediasamurai[1]](/Lists/Posts/Attachments/352/socialmediasamurai1_thumb_2A3F73F4.jpg "SocialMediaSamurai")
2/16/2010 12:06 PMTop 50 Site Visitor Countries/Locations
The other day I posted on the top ten countries by most frequent visits to this site in the post Top Ten Countries Visiting My Site – Thanks For Stopping By!! :-) As a quick follow-up I decided to do a quick pull of the top 50 in order by most visits. I find it amazing how social media such as blogs,  Facebook, Twitter, and more can enable us to connect in some fashion with so many from so many places. The following pull represents 1 week
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Canada
- Australia
- India
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Brazil
- Germany
- South Africa
- Norway
- Portugal
- Denmark
- Ireland
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Italy
- Hungary
- France
- Belgium
- Malaysia
- Turkey
- Switzerland
- Chile
- Jordan
- Slovenia
- Mexico
- Czech Republic
- Saudi Arabia
- Romania
- Malta
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Isle of Man
- Philippines
- Kazakhstan
- Laos
- Indonesia
- Iceland
- Lithuania
- Austria
- Japan
- United Arab Emirates
- Greece
- China
- Iran
- Israel
2/16/2010 7:11 AMSharePoint 2010 Internet Web Content Management (WCM) ResourcesLast week I had the pleasure of presenting SharePoint web content management to a client who is interested in using SharePoint 2010 as the web content management system for their corporate Internet presence. Interest in SharePoint for Internet facing sites has been steadily growing especially interest in using SharePoint 2010 with all of the new rich features that can be leveraged for the Internet. Additionally, the savings in money, time to market, and more by using a unified WCM (web content management) system provide a compelling financial story. As a follow-up with the client I put together some links to great resources around SharePoint 2010 web content management and as I know many of you out there are also looking at SharePoint 2010 for Internet I thought I would pass the links along here. _____________________________________________________________________ · Virtual image for SharePoint beta containing all the content shown today 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) · Enterprise Content Management Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 (including Web Content Management) · Articles on new United States Olympic Committee on use of SharePoint 2010 beta to power the Pressbox site Some good Internet facing SharePoint sites 2/15/2010 7:30 AMTop Ten Countries Visiting My Site – Thanks For Stopping By!! :-)Just checking some site analytics and dug up a little information I found very interesting. I love all the collaboration that is enabled internationally with social media so I took a quick peek at the top ten visits by country. Makes me want to do a SharePoint world tour! (oh how I wish ;-) Here are the top ten countries by visit count to this site in order of visits: - United States
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Canada
- Australia
- Sweden
- India
- Netherlands
- Brazil
- Germany
So to all my friends in these countries as well as elsewhere I just want to wish you a great day and a great week! Thanks for visiting :-) 1
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Michael Gannotti works as a
principal technology specialist for a very large software company. The opinions
expressed herein, however, are my own personal opinions and do not represent my
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