Applications

Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. It reminds me of the old IRC channels you would join to ask questions on relevant technologies, just a thousand times better.
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Scott Samuels on August 20th, 2009

Previously I mentioned a few key SharePoint design points in one of my old posts about Facebook applications, their design and how it can relate to designing successful SharePoint applications. At the risk of the points being obfuscated in the previous article (it was quite a lengthy post) I have decided to reiterate the points [...]

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Microsoft have recently announced that they are de-investing in their Interactive Media Manager solution (the solution the brought you the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint, amongst others) after just announcing that rich media support would be a feature in their Office and SharePoint 2010 offerings.
One can only speculate that the move comes after the recent release [...]

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In the last post I discussed the recent trends in the software industry. In this and future posts we will analyse several of the more popular Facebook applications to see how you should be designing your next successful SharePoint application.
‘Causes’
Causes is a wonderful application that sits 3rd in the [...]

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Scott Samuels on April 11th, 2009

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There was a great discussion I was listening to the other week on a favorite national radio station of mine. The discussion was centred around the affect of the economic crisis on Australia’s software development industry.
In recent times, two major Australian game developers have shut [...]

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