http://www.digwin.com/cat/General/top Microsoft Top news, Buzz & Breaking Stories by communities en http://www.digwin.com/patient-controlled-encryption-patient-privacy-in-electronic-medical-records Patient Controlled Encryption: patient privacy in electronic medical records http://www.digwin.com/socializing-or-knowledge-sharing-characterizing-social-intent-in-community-question-answe Socializing or Knowledge Sharing? Characterizing Social Intent in Community Question Answering http://www.digwin.com/startup-of-the-day-myskin The BizSpark company of the day is mySkin, Inc., based in the US. They offer scientific, unbiased advice on what skin care products would work best for you. You will find below an interview with Rahul Mehendale, CEO and Co-founder of mySkin. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the day! .Note:you can get access through using http://www.digwin.com/more-answers-from-windows-7-upgrade-install-hack-post As stated in my, “Answers from Windows 7 Upgrade Install Hack post coming on Monday,” post, here is a collection of many questions I have posted answers to from my, “Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know,” post.  Please note, this list will continue to grow as I continue to add more posts ove http://www.digwin.com/support-for-exchange-2007-on-windows-server-2008-r2-coming Just a quick update for you about a topic that some of you have raised.  In case you did not see it, the Microsoft Exchange Team announced earlier this week that based on the feedback we have received, the decision has been made to create and issue an update for Exchange 2007 enabling full support for Windows Server 2008 R2.  According to the Mi http://www.digwin.com/when-projects-fall-apart Its rare to find an organization that has not had a project stall, flail, or completely fall apart. By the time you find your project in this position (and are willing to accept it), youre typically already in the weeds or bailing water out of the boat with a bucket. Ill admit that this has happened to me. It happens to all of us. When you find http://www.digwin.com/know-thy-enemy for the second time and spoke about the Collin Mulliner and I discovered and exploited this summer. BlueHat is an interesting speaking venue because the audience consists entirely of Microsoft employees. Some people might think security researchers speaking at Microsoft is like speaking before the enemy, but that is not the case (an actual example http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-adcenter-fall-2009-upgrade-rolling-out-this-weekend The adCenter team is in the process of getting ready to roll out the adCenter Fall 2009 Upgrade this weekend. This upgrade will include improvements in reporting, account management and will even add a few new features; we'll have more detailed information on Monday. You should expect to see the upgrade changes after Sunday, November 8th. Have a http://www.digwin.com/the-silent-click-increase-brand-awareness-online-adtech-new-york-2009 is an incredible resource not only for those looking to connect with old friends and those looking to lose a handful of business cards at networking events, but for nuggets like yesterday's session: The Silent Click: How Online Advertising Can Drive Brand Awareness and Preference These represent the few opportunities to get incredibly granular wi http://www.digwin.com/wheres-the-metric-adtech-new-york-2009 Moritz Loew, Sr Director of Sales for discussed the current state of display advertising at ad:tech in new York this week. The current state seems to be missing a way of effectively communicating to brand advertisers the value of branding display campaigns. Marketers have many options to choose from when deciding how they want to communicate with http://www.digwin.com/15-ways-to-grow-your-audience-adtech-new-york-2009 The fifth "Master Class Workshops" session at ad:tech on Wednesday, " 15 Ways to Grow Your Audience ," was a very insightful session focusing on how blogs and sites can use the experiences and strategies of three expert panelists to grow their own audience. , is the Director of Business Development at Real Girls Media Network where she works with http://www.digwin.com/upcoming-webinar-discusses-risk-efficiency-and-compliance-for-epc-projects-11-november I will be participating in a free Enterprise Informatics webinar on the topic of reducing risk, improving efficiency and ensuring compliance. I hope you can join us. Heres the registration link This webinar is very timely. With $155 billion invested world-wide in 2008 and $1 billion in federal stimulus money allocated in 2009 for green energy http://www.digwin.com/project-apache-stonehenge-progress-and-roadmap-discussed-at-apachecon I, along with other Microsoft colleagues, participated in the in Oakland, CA this week. This week also marks the 10 Microsoft is now actively participating in several Apache projects and becoming part of the core community. ASF President, Justin Erenkrantz, about Microsofts contributions recently, as well. Peter Galli has also on other activities http://www.digwin.com/europe-grew-by-10-million-new-facebook-users-last-month-heres-the-top-20-gainers eurolightsFacebook now has 326 million monthly active users, according to the data the company makes publicly available, and Europe countries make up around a third of this number. From the United Kingdom to Turkey, many of the largest countries in the region gained the most users, totaling 108 million monthly actives by the end of this month http://www.digwin.com/facebook-updates-promosweepstakes-guidelines-what-it-means-for-marketers n10381469571_2067These days, running promotions on Facebook Pages and inside Facebook apps is one of the simplest and most effective ways of engaging Facebook users. However, while Facebook does allow third parties to run contests and promotions on Facebook, it has been posting increasingly specific guidelines throughout the past year detailing http://www.digwin.com/tip-smb-wrong-password-error-due-to-special-character-user-name Jrgen Kirkovits discovered that using an umlauted character in an SMB user name gave him a "wrong password" error in Snow Leopard. Removing the character fixed it: I had a problem with connection to shared directories from my Snow Leopard MacBook to a Windows 7 PC as well. I recently re-installed my HTPC ("updated" from Win 7 RC to final), but http://www.digwin.com/thursby-admitmac-50-snow-leopard-ready-adds-win-group-policy Thursby Software Systems today released ADmitMac 5.0, and DAVE 8.0, upgrades to Mac OS X networking software for Windows Active Directory and file- and print-sharing compatibility. The new versions now run in Snow Leopard in both 64-bit and 32-bit mode. ADmitMac 5.0 also adds the ability for Windows administrators to manage Macs running ADmitMac http://www.digwin.com/the-office-labs-giving-campaign-auction Every year during the month of October Microsoft runs its annual Giving Campaign, where employees worldwide donate to their favourite non-profits. Different teams around the company come up with all sorts of entertaining ways to encourage donations, and I had the pleasure of participating in two of those activities this year: book, where I was on http://www.digwin.com/mapping-kernel-objects-to-enable-systematic-integrity-checking Mapping Kernel Objects to Enable Systematic Integrity Checking http://www.digwin.com/avatar-movement-in-world-of-warcraft-battlegrounds Evaluating DVE topology management and message propagation schemes requires avatar movement models. Most models are based on reasoned assumptions rather than measured data, potentially biasing evaluation. We measured player movement in World of Warcraft battlegrounds, and compared our observations against common assumptions about player avatar