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Games Everywhere : The Larger Role for Web Platforms and Services for Games & Serious Games

June 15, 10 //

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Google Tech Talk June 14, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Ben Sawyer, Co-Founder, President, Digitalmill. Videogames have always been a business at the edge of technology and change. Today, however, as games burst beyond the living room, and traditional forms and platforms of play they are turning up everywhere. With the rise of serious games which make use of videogames and videogame technologies in areas beyond entertainment, there is even larger requirement for videogames to change form and integrate with platforms and systems that were previously never considered relevant to game development. As games move to more pervasive forms, spanning both entertainment and non-entertainment fields, we need to define and understand this gamut of activity and the technologies that can support them. What new models, design, and engineering patterns exist that are, and increasingly going to be essential to a world where games are everywhere? Drawing on experiences with large organizations, non-traditional videogames forms, and analysis of the commercial videogame industry this talk not only illuminates the wider gamut of videogame activity but where there are unique needs and opportunities, especially for cutting edge Web services and platforms, that until better supported are, in fact, holding back the larger ascendency of games into everyday life. Slides can be viewed here: www.bit.ly

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Identifying Suspicious URLs: An Application of Large-Scale Online Learning

May 14, 10 //

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Identifying Suspicious URLs: An Application of Large-Scale Online Learning

Google Tech Talk May 5, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Justin Ma. We explore online learning approaches for detecting malicious Web sites (those involved in criminal scams) using lexical and host-based features of the associated URLs. We show that this application is particularly appropriate for online algorithms as the size of the training data is larger than can be efficiently processed in batch and because the distribution of features that typify malicious URLs is changing continuously. Using a real-time system we developed for gathering URL features, combined with a real-time source of labeled URLs from a large Web mail provider, we demonstrate that recently-developed online algorithms can be as accurate as batch techniques, achieving daily classification accuracies up to 99% over a balanced data set. Slides: cseweb.ucsd.edu Justin Ma is a PhD candidate at UC San Diego advised by Stefan Savage, Geoff Voelker and Lawrence Saul. His research interests are in systems and networking with an emphasis on network security, and his current focus is the application of machine learning to problems in security. He will be joining UC Berkeley as a postdoc after graduation. [Home page: www.cs.ucsd.edu ]

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Sean Seibel talks to R/GA Chief Scientist Greg Glass about IE8

April 27, 10 //

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Digital Agency of the Decade, R/GA (www.rga.com), has launched multiple IE8 Web Slices both externally and internally. Externally R/GA uses an IE8 Web Slice to allow users to have toolbar access to their breaking news, while internally R/GA uses Web Slices for business intelligence.

In this video, Sean Seibel, East Region User Experience Evangelist interviews R/GA’s Chief Scientist, Greg Glass. Greg shares R/GA’s use of IE8 Web Slices, insights on delivering innovation to clients, and his excitement for the release of Windows Phone 7.

The R/GA headline news Web Slice can be installed at:
www.rga.com

For more information about developing with IE8, you can go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie.

Introducing Docs for Facebook: Making Your Documents Social

April 21, 10 //

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Microsoft FUSE Labs has created (and released to the web today) a new social experiment that aims to add some “friendliness” to your documents: Docs - a way for you to discover, create and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Facebook provides the best possible document service for the Facebook environment. Seamless integration with Facebook means that the service is all about sharing your documents. Finally docs can be friendly too!

From Lili Cheng’s blog post: The fact that we’ve been able to adapt the Office 2010 “Web Apps” technology to work directly with Facebook truly speaks to the flexibility and power not just of the Facebook platform, but also of the Office system’s rich “contextual collaboration” capabilities. And we’d never have been able to achieve our critical ‘simplicity’ goals had it not been for our ability to use a new test feature from Facebook that allows us to build an instantly personalized and seamless document authorization & sharing experience directly from our site.

Silverlight 4 is here!

April 15, 10 //

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Silverlight 4 is now available for download.

Silverlight 4 enhances the building of business applications, media applications, and applications that reach beyond the browser. New features include printing support, significant enhancements for using forms over data, support for several new languages, full support in the Google Chrome web browser, WCF RIA Services, modular development with MEF, full support in Visual Studio 2010, bi-directional text, web camera and microphone support, rich text editing, improved data binding features, HTML support, MVVM and commanding support, new capabilities for local desktop integration running in the new “Trusted Application” mode such as COM automation and local file access.

Go get it!

Learn what’s new in SL4.

James Senior: Introducing Web Camps

April 9, 10 //

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function webCamps ()
{
day1.learn();
day2.build();
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Interested in learning how new innovations in Microsoft’s Web Platform and developer tools like ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 can make you a more productive web developer? If you’re currently working with PHP, Ruby, ASP or older versions of ASP.NET and want to hear how you can create amazing websites more easily, then register for a Web Camp near you today!

Microsoft’s Web Camps are free, two-day events that allow you to learn and build on the Microsoft Web Platform. At camp, you will hear from Microsoft experts on the latest components of the platform, including ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Entity Framework, IIS, Visual Studio 2010 and much more.

Web Camps also provide the opportunity to get hands on with labs and get creative by building in teams. All this with Microsoft experts on hand to guide you through.

Here, we meet the mastermind behind Web Camps, James Senior, to get some details about these camps and to get some insights into the thinking behind this new form of in-person training for web developers. Please note that during the conversation James mentioned that Scott Hanselman will be presenting in Singapore. In fact, he meant to say Sydney.

We look forward to seeing you at camp soon! http://www.webcamps.ms/

Channel 9 Live at MIX10: SVG Web Panel

April 8, 10 //

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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a standard for vector graphics on the web, supported by modern browsers. IE9 introduces GPU-accelerated SVG, enabling larger and faster vector graphics. Architect Ted Johnson and PM Lead Patrick Dengler of the IE team join Doug Schepers of W3C to talk about GPU-accelerated web standards, and what it means for the future.

Recorded live as part of

E2E: JavaScript Performance, Project JSMeter and Web Programming

March 29, 10 //

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JavaScript is the most widely used programming language on the web. As the great Douglas Crockford likes to say, JavaScript is both the world’s most popular programming language and the world’s least popular programming language at the same time.

In this episode of Expert to Expert (to Expert), Erik Meijer joins MSR research scientists Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn to talk about JavaScript, project JSMeter and today’s trends in web programming.

Dr. Zorn and Dr. Livshits have been doing a significant amount of research on how JavaScript is used in the real world by analyzing JS execution on large-scale (JS-heavy) commercial web sites. Their formal exploration of JS executing in the real world, Project JSMeter, has yielded results, which seem to indicate that current JS performance test suites are at best suspect in terms of how JavaScript is actually running on the web, in production, on real sites, etc. But read the findings and make your own judgments, of course.

Tune in. Enjoy.

Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Javascript Panel with Douglas Crockford, John Resig & Erik Meijer

March 26, 10 //

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JavaScript language designer and historian Douglas Crockford joins language designer Erik Meijer and jQuery creator John Resig to discuss JavaScript and web programming.

This is the first time that this particular collection of experts have shared the stage to discuss what has become the most popular – and least popular – programming language in the world (to quote Crockford, who knows better than anybody else…).

Topics discussed include the history and future of jQuery, how JavaScript is actually used in the real world (is it only used in web pages?), ES5 (the latest version of ECMAScript), JS performance (how fast is fast enough?), how the language is evolving (what’s Crockford up to these days) and much more.

If you’re a JS enthusiast, then this is definitely for you!

Recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at MIX10

The Access Show: How the Microsoft Legal Department Uses Access 2010 Web Databases

March 8, 10 //

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Meet Malori! Malori is a paralegal in Microsoft’s legal department. She manages patent applications and assigns them out to attorneys and portfolio managers as well as other paralegals. Malori was looking for a way to make her team more efficient by presenting all of the information they needed in a single web page or application. Our team jumped in and made an Access Services solution, which allows her to manage all the data and provide custom views to her teammates. Today this web database is used by over 80 attorneys working on different cases at Microsoft.

In today’s episode, Malori shares her experience with Access Services and how it has helped her be more efficient.

Learn more about Access 2010 on the team blog.

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