Entries for July 2007

Release of Visual Studio 2008

The gates of Microsoft continue to pour new applications into the world. One of the most awaited is the next version of Visual Studio, previously codenamed Orcas. I mentioned a lot of cool stuff featured in the upcoming version in an earlier post and now Beta2 has arrived with Javascript...

July 26, 2007 | Comments (0) | Filed under ASP.NET

Facebook application gets one million users in a month

Craig Ulliott is a web developer from Philadelphia. About a month ago, he developed an addon for the popular site Facebook. Facebook is the second most visited social networking website on the web with over 28 million members. However, Craig didn't quite expect the success of his creation. Attracting over...

July 22, 2007 | Comments (4) | Filed under Web industry and technologies

The untitled JJ Abrams project

Viral marketing campaigns are hot these days. I wrote some time ago about the viral marketing of Nine Inch Nails for their new album. Upcoming movies seems to really attract this kind of campaign, since movie fans love to analyze and dissect clues about the film. I remember the hype...

July 21, 2007 | Comments (2) | Filed under Movies

The modern plague of phishing

Once upon a time, the so-called Nigerian letters were adopted to online versions by devious spammers. They were basically email versions of advance fee frauds and I suppose that a few people fell for these traditional scams delivered by snail mail. Unfortunately but quite naturally, the spammers have evolved along...

July 16, 2007 | Comments (2) | Filed under Web industry and technologies

Moleskines of the world

In the digital society of 2007, I suppose that plain notebooks are on the decline. However, there are times when you don't want to bring a laptop. This is where the classic Moleskine notebooks enter the scene. Due to the quality and portable format, I find them very useful and...

July 05, 2007 | Comments (2) | Filed under Travel