Monthly Archive for September, 2009

Ominous Weather Forecast

All day today, people kept talking about how it was our last day of sun.

I was a bit skeptical/naive.  But after checking weather, folks appear to be right…  There was a  “special weather bulletin” for seattle:

A significant change to cooler and wetter weather will begin later monday and will continue through at least next weekend…

Sigh. 

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Top 100 Global Brands of 2009

BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year

It’s interesting to see who made this list – some of them are pretty obvious (e.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon).  Others make total sense, but I probably wouldn’t have guessed them (e,g,  Heinz, Burberry).

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Bing Visual Search Released!

And it uses Silverlight!

Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your “keywords” (as opposed to well, word keywords).  Check it out here.

Whatcha Think? New Silverlight Features…

Thanks to Joe for calling out the new Silverlight  feature request trackerTim Heuer and Scott Barnes have set up this list up to help us get feedback from the community.

We’re definitely looking closely at this list!  Please cast your votes.  :)

 

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