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Microsoft AzureCamp NYC Interview with Do More Consulting's David Steketee http://www.domoreconsulting.com/, a NYC based consulting company for non-profit organizations and their experience participating in the NYC AzureCamp on April 22nd in NYC. Bob Isaacs from Microsoft interviews David about…

On Tuesday, Microsoft kicked off the 2009 Professional Developer Conference (PDC) with some big news about Windows Azure, the cloud computing platform announced a year ago at PDC 2008. The biggest news to come out of the keynote was the announcement that Azure will launch into production on…

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a new social aggregator called Spindex, a project built by FUSE Labs, the folks behind the Outlook Social Connector, Bing Twitter Maps and Docs for Facebook. With Spindex, now available as an early technical preview, your social streams from…

In case you missed the news, the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook was released last week during the SXSW conference that took place in Austin, Texas. The new toolkit, built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft, lets developers create Facebook applications which are hosted on Windows…

A new service called Eduify launched on the Windows Azure platform. This service is designed to help students with their writing by providing tutorials, samples, and information about how to verify and cite sources in research papers. Edufiy also adds a social element to the writing process as…

According to a post on the Gladinet blog, their company’s Windows software program called Gladinet Cloud Desktop can help Amazon S3 users easily migrate content from that online service to the new service offered by Windows Azure. To accomplish this, the Gladinet software integrates with Windows…

If you didn’t attend PDC 2009, you missed a chance to see Windows Azure up close and personal. How close? How about being able to actually walk inside an Azure data center container? That’s right – one of the cooler displays at PDC was a modular container that was just sitting there on PDC’s…

At the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft revealed new details about the forthcoming launch of codename “Dallas,” the information marketplace which provides developers and other information workers the ability to find, purchase and manage datasets from one online resource.  The service,…

Microsoft just unveiled a crowd-sourced engagement platform called Microsoft Town Hall. The project, a Windows Azure-hosted toolkit, is designed for use by politicians interested in building online communities where constituents can vote on issues, voice their opinions, identify problems, ask…

Thanks to a grant from Microsoft Research, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has launched a new website called Be a Martian. On the site, visitors can virtually “explore” Mars, zooming around the planet, looking at images from various Mars landers, explorers, and satellites from the 1960’s to present-day.…