“What Project Emporia provides,” Herbrich explains, “Is very fine-grained user control of news selection. It serves up news based on your specific preferences, rather than leaving it up to the editor of a news site. And it’s easy to state your preferences: You just vote on the stories.”When a user reads the stories and gives each a vote of “show me more like this”, Immediately Project Emporia recommends stories based on how the user has been voting. Each of the user’s votes improves the relevance of Project Emporia’s choices, for that individual and for every other user. According to Herbrich – “With Emporia, your vote is what trains the system to your preferences. In the beginning, I would vote on 30 to 50 stories a day. After two or three weeks, Project Emporia pretty much had my taste nailed down. Every person on Emporia will see slightly different content after a few votes. A hundred thousand different users will get a hundred thousand different experiences. I think that’s very powerful.” Project Emporia Homepage]]>
Take a look to the Microsoft Live labs’ another great experiment “Pivot”. Its nothing but an Internet browser which works on the basis of IE but with the new attractive looks and cool features. Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.
Pivot is currently available by invitation only to a small technical audience to help us explore future scenarios. To learn more about Pivot and our vision for this project, check out this video, share it, embed it, and blog/tweet/post your thoughts about it.
Invite codes for Microsoft Pivot :
- 53BA F928 4F13 67C0
- 10C3 8B53 7123 74C6
- 9BB9 870B A97F 2832
- 36C0 B281 6D74 45C7
- CD83 B193 D775 6087
- FE95 9A79 C189 8D98
- 5E0A 5E6A 82BB 9869
visit @Liveside for updated codes. (Thanks to Ankur Mittal)
Homepage : Microsoft Pivot
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Health Tech Today with Dr. Bill Crounse is a monthly online series providing cutting-edge stories at the intersection of health and information technology. It highlights the latest industry trends and features examples of proven solutions that are improving health and changing lives for clinicians, patients and consumers worldwide.
The series of videos features informative interviews with some of the world’s top health leaders; compelling health-related personal stories; and the latest new technology and IT innovations.
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Microsoft Patient Experience Platform Microsoft Patient Experience Platform (MPEP) is designed to help accelerate the development of “experience” solutions in healthcare. Experience services includes gaming, videos, care team bios, television, surveys, music, personal health record, schedule and other entertainment all integrated into a unified experience while in the hospital or at home.Hospital room experience screen
Home or work experience screen
]]>The Microsoft Translator Official Team Blog has blogged about setting up manually for Office 2007 and Office 2003 previously.
Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 currently use WorldLingo as the default machine translator in the Research task pane. This download will update the Research task pane registry keys to set Microsoft Translator as the default translator and WorldLingo as the fallback translator.
This works for both Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007. Download the Installer through following link.
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With Microsoft Tag application, the users can simply pointing the phone camera to a custom tag for instantly access mobile content, video, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions and etc. Microsoft Tag is a unique two dimension codes which uses triangle shapes and colors to store data. Actually, Microsoft Tags doesn’t store more data except a unique ID which can fetch more data stored on Microsoft server.
Microsoft Tag does not only available for iPhone but it also available for Windows Mobile, J2Me, Blackberry and Symbian S60 phones.Microsoft Tag uses the data plan on your device. So normal operator fees will apply. It can be downloaded through following links.
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Homepage | Microsoft Tag
Microsoft Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice.
Just you have to choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you.
You share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos.
Download details (free trial)
File Name: SongsmithSetup.msi Version:2008.12.10.0 Date Published: 7 January 2009 Download Size: 98.49 MB Download now
System Requirements
- Processor 1Ghz or faster
- Memory 1GB or more
- Display Required:1024 x 768 resolution Recommended:1280 x 1024 resolution
- Sound card Any sound card
- Other Speakers or headphones
- Operating system Required:Windows Vista or Windows XP (SP2) Recommended:Windows Vista (SP1) or later
- Hard disk 1GB or more free space
- Video card Required:64 MB video memory Recommended:128 MB video memory
- Input device PC Microphone
2 > Choose a tempo…
3 > And sing! Immediately, Songsmith will create music to back up your voice.
And if you want to dig deeper, you can customize your music, even if you don’t know anything about chords or music theory. You can adjust the “happy” and “jazzy” sliders, change styles even after you sing, or set up your own custom band.
And, if you are a musician, there are other features just for you. Edit chords directly, play your instrument into Songsmith instead of singing, or just open up Songsmith and type your own chords to make jam tracks or quick arrangements.
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Microsoft has prepared a series of tutorial videos about Songsmith.
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