Paul Mooney

In a Wink

A new Search Engine launched today, Wink offers a peek at Tags, who's got'em and where do the links go....

Find the latest links, see the Wink Blog, or maybe try to find a new link....

Some people might say “What exactly does Wink search?” Our thinking is that people who are frequent users of del.icio.us, digg and slashdot, who get their information from many sources, and who count on knowing what people are finding interesting right now - those people would like one place to search all those sources. Google and Yahoo are great for the whole Web, and we’ve integrated Google search into our service, but the Wink results - those are a measure of what people are thinking right now, based on their bookmarks and tagging.

Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation

The vast majority of applications that are developed today need to communicate with other applications. The ability to share data between a wide network of services that can communicate with other platforms and devices is what Web services are all about. Windows Communication Foundation is Microsoft's unified programming model for building Web service applications with managed code. It extends the .NET Framework to enable developers to build secure, reliable, and transacted Web services that interoperate across platforms and integrate with existing investments. Windows Communication Foundation is built from the ground-up to combine and extend the capabilities of existing Microsoft distributed systems technologies, including Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, .NET RemotWindows Communication Foundation ing, ASMX, and WSE to deliver a unified development experience.

Peer-to-Peer

Windows Vista provides capabilities for discovering and communicating between applications without the need for centralized servers. The peer-to-peer capabilities of Windows Vista give users and applications the ability to discover and interact with others on the network in a secure fashion.

Quality of Service

Today's new digital home usage scenarios increase AV, gaming, voice, and data traffic over a converged IP network. The emergence of wireless as the dominant home networking technology presents several challenges for multimedia and real-time applications—such as competition for available bandwidth, excessive latency at network bottlenecks, and uncontrollable latency variance (jitter). Further exacerbating this problem is wireless volatility caused by interference, common household obstructions, and sensitivity to distance. Windows Vista provides a set of technologies for applications to overcome these challenges, including the following:

• Auto-discovery of end-to-end network Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities
• Real-time feedback about changing network characteristics, such as:
  • Maximum end-to-end link capacity
  • Available bandwidth
  • Congestion notification (for trans-rating, trans-coding, etc.)
• Intelligent packet prioritization
• Distributed admission control
• Enhanced diagnostic capabilities

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Alien Abduction

The MotherShip has beemed-up yet another member of the community as Clements Vasters joins the Windows Communication Foundation Team.

Blue Badge

Yes, all the rumors are true. I am moving from the consumer side of things to the builder side of things. From February 1st, 2006 I will be a “blue badge” and work for Microsoft as a Program Manager on the Windows Communication Foundation. The guys convinced me that it would be a good idea to make the move. I’ve been spending so much time talking about and writing extensions for the shipping and not-yet shipping Microsoft distributed systems technologies stuff that it became the logical next step for me to become part of the team that creates all of these things. I hope that I can make some contribution to the cause. As for why I am leaving my baby newtelligence? It’s the urge to build stuff that matters in a big way. Bart and Achim (my partners) have given me all the support they could since January in pursuing this goal. We’ve worked hard to put the company into a position that allows me to make this move and we are all delighted with the way things are. newtelligence is expanding its consulting business, continues to deliver world-class developer education and will continue to be a strong partner for our customers, which makes it easier for me to let go. I’ll tell you more about it in the upcoming weeks… posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:12 AM by paul with 0 Comments   CS GET THIS SKIN