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Entries from September 2008

Farewell to Microsoft after ten great years

September 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments

After ten years at Microsoft Research I have decided it is time to move on.  My time at MSR has been a remarkable one.  I have had the opportunity to work with very smart and focused people intent on making technical strides on many defining aspects of computing.  It has been a pleasure to work [...]

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Tags: Mobile Devices · Mobile Social Software · Research · Shameless self-promotion · Social Media · Sociology · Visualization

(Excel) .NetMap: Social Networking tools for Office 2007

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Excel lacked a directed graph chart.  Now it has one.   (Excel) .NetMap (version .57) is NOW ON CODEPLEX: http://www.codeplex.com/netmap   Over 2,000 downloads to date! (See: http://www.codeplex.com/netmap/stats)  (Excel) .NetMap is an Add-in that Tony Capone is building that provides a new chart type, the network or directed graph, to the collection supported by Excel. [...]

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Tags: Community · Social network · Sociology · Technology · Visualization