danah boyd of Microsoft Research New England delivered the welcoming keynote for the 2010 South by Southwest Conference... more »

There have been many stories about brain vs. brawn. More recently, human brain and computer brawn have been pitted against each other in arenas such as one-on-one chess. We all have been hearing about applying large amounts of computing power to solve problems like translation by sheer force. As a high performance cloud service offered by .. more »

Single licenses of collective products, often referred to as “Suites” of products, offer considerable savings and easier license management and these savings can be so good, that they truly earn the name of “Sweet",” I mean “Suite.”  Sometimes though, there are some common misconceptions and misunderstandings of how these suites work and what you .. more »

Cynergy, Terralever, Tribal DDB and Razorfish are among the Microsoft partners to showcase their latest Silverlight creations at the SXSW Interactive Festival... more »

Developers get first look at tools for new mobile platform. Spreading the word about the new platform is Charlie Kindel, a key evangelist for Microsoft... more »

for web developers and designers, the MIX Online community team (us) was given an opportunity to display a booth in . At first, we politely declined. The Unbearable Lameness of Convention Booths There were a few reasons why I was uninspired about having a booth. Then I realized…that’s exactly what I wanted: a unique experience where attendees and .. more »

Just a week to go until Search Engine Strategies in New York! The conference looks like being one of the best yet with keynote speeches by David Meerman Scott, Google’s Avinash Kaushik and our very own Yusuf Mehdi . Yigal Elnekave , Robyn Raybould...(read more).. more »

Last week, MSN UK announced the official launch of the In the 2nd in a series of interviews with Ashley Highfield, Microsoft UK’s MD & VP of our Consumer & Online division, he talks about the premise behind the new video experience, why it’s different and what it means for advertisers. Some of the features include: - HD with Silverlight Smooth Stre.. more »

It’s that time of year again – we’re preparing to take our four award-winning teachers to Berlin for our European Innovative Education Forum. You’ll recall that last year we went to Vienna for this event, and brought along with us four UK teachers as well. (Two of them, Mandeep and Ollie, ended up winning awards at the Vienna event , and again at.. more »

Find out how to configure Application Performance to improve application responsiveness. Follow our daily tips on:Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS.. more »

Having launched a number of popular, official topic pages already, Facebook has another one out today: . It promises to provide periodic status updates about sports, as you might guess — as well as highlight ways other companies are using Pages, Connect and other Facebook services to reach users. And since the March Madness college basketball “M.. more »

India hasn’t seen that much Facebook usage — until the last few months, when it’s been taking off. We noted that the service recently reached monthly active users in the country of 1.2 billion people. And now Facebook is opening an office there, in information technology hub Hyderabad. Aside from its Australia office, this is Facebook’s office i.. more »

How to pass your S10-101 exam? Ourexam S10-101 questions and answers can guarantee your success at first attempt. Ourexam S10-101 questions and answers are prepared by the best brains and experienced IT experts. The benefits of getting Snia certified: Certification insures that staff has a benchmarked level of knowledge and skill. Recruiting .. more »

It no longer requires a big budget to design, develop and distribute a commercial, online game. Wild Pockets, a spin off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, is democratizing game development and making it accessible to everyone. Its development platform provides an easy way for anyone to create, publish and monetize 3D.. more »

I am in Austin, Texas at the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Festival this weekend attending panels and moderating one of my own. I had a chance to sit in at a panel about “App-vertising.” The premise of the panel was the large and increasing...(read more).. more »

, the technical evangelist for Bing Maps, led a fascinating panel at South By Southwest on Sunday morning with map experts from Foursquare, Twitter, Navtec and Flickr talking about the future of mapping. The panelists discussed their anticipated future at which online maps are overlaid with more and more data: personal history of places you’ve be.. more »

Some of the things we’re doing with social media, sometimes in pursuit of profit, and sometimes in pursuit of more altruistic efforts to improve online community, can have some significant and unexpected consequences for users in terms of privacy expectations. That point was driven home by danah boyd of Microsoft Research in her keynote pr.. more »

Posted by Steve Ballmer Chief Executive Officer President Obama on Thursday expanded on his National Export Initiative, calling attention to the importance of robust protection for intellectual property rights in assuring our nation’s prosperity. We applaud...(read more).. more »

that Facebook’s search traffic grew 13% in January with 395 million searches, up from 351 million U.S. search queries in December of 2009. raised the question earlier this week. Here’s what it says: “Eventbrite is partnering with Facebook to enable you to collect money for your event. Your attendees pay with credit card and Eventbrite collec.. more »

We consider regularized stochastic learning and online optimization problems, where the objective function is the sum of two convex terms: one is the loss function of the learning task, and the other is a simple regularization term such as $\ell_1$-norm for promoting sparsity. We develop extensions of Nesterov's dual averaging method, that can .. more »