Carter MaslanSo what's so exciting?Click2Call on Local Search Results using your Vonage- July 24, 2006 Call me lazy, but I often just want to search, click, and talk. Now, this Live.com gadget lets me do it by using the Click2CallU beta service from Vonage. When you click on a search result, you receive a call that connects you automatically to the desired number (no dialing). I hope Vonage adds WS-Security protocol support to this service (even better using WCS and WCF). They currently only provide POST and GET over https, which makes it challenging for gadgets like this...http://blogs.msdn.com/jcmaslan/archive/2006/07/24/676452.aspx Fantastic Work in Data Visualization- July 12, 2006 Jason's Channel 9 interview with Accruent provides some background on the real estate application shown on www.seewindowsvista.com. If you only have 10 minutes, jump to the clip of the Windows Vista application for visualizing demographic data surrounding store locations. The whole category of "Data Visualization" is hot - especially now that subsystems like WPF make it easier to aggregate multiple data sourcesservicesd into hi-fi UI. Jason included a post with resource links.http://blogs.msdn.com/jcmaslan/archive/2006/07/11/662908.aspx The Long Tail includes post-ophthalmologic-surgery geek humor- July 6, 2006 Steve Marx has really lengthened The Long Tail. His risky prank and SwansonVision Atlas app qualify him as the undisputed king of post-ophthalmologic-surgery geek humor.http://blogs.msdn.com/jcmaslan/archive/2006/07/06/658368.aspx |