Our DiscoverPoint platform uses an advanced profiling and recommendations engine to deliver content based content creation and usage patterns. A recent podcast by Rachel King from BusinessWeek explores context aware applications like DiscoverPoint ...[Read More]

If you haven't had a chance to see some of the new Geo-Visualization techniques leveraging Microsoft and Silverlight check out the new Bing Maps beta: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/. ...[Read More]

I found an interesting post on installing the Surface SDK on top of Windows 7 (http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/05/17/surface-sdk-sp1-on-vista-and-win7-x64/). It requires a little MSI editing which you can do with the Orca MSI editor contained in the ...[Read More]

With BizTalk 2009 now ready for release it's a good time to comment on some of MicroLink's work with the current platform. We (MicroLink) have utilized BizTalk in development efforts in a variety of fashions. We were submitted ourselves for the BT ...[Read More]

Microsoft's Xbox live service will have integration with Facebook and Twitter this fall check out the following like for details: http://bit.ly/mVmSV. ...[Read More]

Have you ever wanted to find a one stop shop for published government data that you can then leverage in your own platform. A great source of information for the DC area (hopefully more in the future) can be found on the Open Government Data Initi ...[Read More]

One of the first things I look for when using different applications is the support for external development / customization. Yesterday Facebook announced a new Open Stream API (http://developers.facebook.com/ ) which now allows developers to crea ...[Read More]

A few members of our product team ran into an interesting problem when using UpdatePanels in a MOSS environment. In our solution we dynamically create an instance of ScriptManager if it is not defined on the form. We found this worked quite well u ...[Read More]

Microsoft has just posted a video (http://sl.microsoftpsdemos.com/SVPVerticals/default.html) on their Single View Platform (SVP) that showcases some of the integration with Communication and Collaboration created by MicroLink. For the technicall ...[Read More]

Many of us assumed after the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer that there would be additional integration with the SharePoint platform. Well it appears that the next version of SharePoint will utilize the FAST search engine as the core compon ...[Read More]