“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]]>
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“We use multiple signals and approaches in ranking search results. The overarching goal is to do a better job determining the intent of the search so we can provide the most relevant answer to a given query. Opt-in programs like the toolbar help us with clickstream data, one of many input signals we and other search engines use to help rank sites,” said Stefan Weitz, Director, Bing.Microsoft has posted its explanation of how it uses more than 1,000 different “signals” to create its search algorithm. An excerpt of a blog post from Harry Shum, Bing Corporate Vice President:
“To be clear, we learn from all of our customers. What we saw in today’s story was a spy-novelesque stunt to generate extreme outliers in tail query ranking. It was a creative tactic by a competitor, and we’ll take it as a back-handed compliment. But it doesn’t accurately portray how we use opt-in customer data as one of many inputs to help improve our user experience.”Microsoft didn’t gave any detailed explanation or maybe they will be disclosing the detailed response over today’s Bing Event. Stay tuned]]>
Students who have laptops running Microsoft Windows and OneNote receive the polling questions and teacher annotations in real-time within their OneNote Notebook. In addition, students can add their own notes to the slides using the features provided in OneNote.
They can also respond in real-time to the questions during the lesson. Students without laptops can participate in polls using hardware clickers. This gives educators real time feedback on how well their students are grasping their lessons.?
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Long time back i had posted about the availability of Learning snacks on Windows 7, now Microsoft is introducing the new latest range of Silverlight Learning Snacks on various Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Silverlight Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts.
Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topics.
Learning snacks are available under following technologies.
- Core Infrastructure Optimization
- Learning Central
- Management Reporter 2.0
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
- Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0
- Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010
- Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step 2010
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
- Microsoft Office 2010
- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
- Virtualization
- Web 2.0 Development
- WebsiteSpark
- Windows 7
- Windows Essential Business Server 2008
- Windows Server 2008 Release 2 (R2)
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Vista
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Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new addition to the Visual Studio family, helps you to create business class application for Cloud as well as Desktop. With LightSwitch you can create custom applications for the way you do business.
LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to build business applications that target Windows Client or Windows Azure using as much or as little code as you want to write.
You can build forms from existing templates and populate them with data from data sources including SQL Server, SQL Azure, SharePoint, and others. There is integrated support for working with Microsoft Office for tasks such as exporting data to Excel without having to write code.
Microsoft says that LightSwitch dramatically decreases the time it takes to build a custom application by automatically handling routine code; it’s a rapid application development tool that offers application shells and screen templates to allow the developer to concentrate on the core business logic.
Links :
- LightSwitch Homepage
- LightSwitch Demo (MSDN blog)
As many of the internet user knows that Windows 7 Service pack 1 has been leaked to Torrent sites. The leaked Windows 7 SP1 release has the build number 7601.16562.100603-1800 and it was originally distributed to select beta testers, and will expire in-between April – July 2011.
Users, who don’t like to download the leaked Service Pack 1 beta (7601.16562.100603-1800) from torrents and other file sharing sites, can now officially download Service Pack 1 directly from “Softpedia”.
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Microsoft Corp.co-founder Bill Gates said he supports chief executive officer Steve Ballmer, as rival Apple Inc. overtook Microsoft last month to become the technology company with the highest market capitalization.
“I happen to like the things that Steve’s doing,” Gates said when asked if he had confidence in Ballmer, according to the transcript of an interview for broadcast later on Sunday on ABC’s This Week programme. “It’s not my full-time work, but as a board member, you know, I see a lot of great things going on.”
Apple became the most valuable technology firm in the world on 26 May. Cupertino, California-based Apple’s market capitalization was $230.70 billion (Rs10.8 trillion) as of 11 June; Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft’s was $224.90 billion.
Asked why Apple overtook Microsoft, Gates said: “Oh, Microsoft is doing a lot of great stuff,” and that the opportunities in the software industry are pretty phenomenal.
“The way that people think about TV, the way they think about reading, about learning, software is going to revolutionize that,” said Gates.
Asked about the economy Gates said the President can’t just pull the levers and make the economy take off. He said reducing the US budget deficit will be difficult. “It’s a tricky thing, because almost everybody agrees we need to keep spending up, you know, not take all country deficits to zero right away. But over time, you have to move in that direction,” he said.
Gates also repeated his call for the US government to increase spending on clean-energy research and development. “Without such research, the problem we’ll run into is that we’ll have more crises like the oil spill and we’ll have the supply disruption. We’ll start to see more and more effects of the climate problem. The costs will go up because you’re looking for oil in harder and harder places,“ Gates said
Courtesy Livemint(Joshua Zumbrun) June14
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