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Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of Live Search services "Silk Road".

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I was watching Max Feingold's PDC talk, Designing Your Application to Scale and one particular quote really stuck out to me.

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I am looking to sell to video cameras to make room for the new Flip Mino HD. If you are interested in either, ping me at scottwater@gmail.com.

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Maybe FeedBurner isn’t dead after all. I received the following email this morning:

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Ahh, so many title choices, all of them would have haunted me in Google for many years. Anyway, I recently realized that four of my recent gadget purchases had one thing in common, they were all white.

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Email is an incredibly important aspect of many applications. While most programming languages make it trivially easy to send email, debugging/testing is often a tedious and boring task…until now. Ken Robertson (of the Telligent product team) has released a tool called Papercut which should make this process a lot more tolerable.

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I have spent way too much time in my life discussing SEO in blogs. For blogs like Engadget, SEO is a big deal. However, for the other 99.99% of people you are way better served creating great content and interacting with the visitors you already (yes, I can see there is a bit of chicken and egg) have visiting your site.

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With all the news about a crappy economy, I found the video below by Jason Fried of 37Signals very interesting.

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I saw some mentions about Yahoo’s Boss a couple weeks ago, but I didn’t have time until recently to try it out for myself.

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start- ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.

I could not find a C# implementation, so a couple of nights ago, I decided to put one together.

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Microsoft's new BizSpark project is an effort to spur startups and entrepreneurs to use Microsoft technology when launching new companies. Microsoft is giving away software, services and support to startups earning less than $1 million to help them get off the ground and to the next level. The technology Microsoft is making available includes Visual Studio, Windows Server, SQL Server and Windows Azure. [eWeek]

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