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On this last sample, you can watch some of the very rare RSoD

But.. What is TED?

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year’s TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

And TEDx is…?

TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. At TEDx events, unique talks given by live speakers combine with TEDTalks videos to spark deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.

I left here some  of my favorites…

Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web.

My firt impression: Huuge potential. It is what I think that future search methods should be. A mix between related data, context information, and visual search. The only thing that I cannot undestabd is why only visual search… we have a lot of algorithms to index media… we can do more…

It uses Deep Zoom (a technology that is part of  silverlight) that allows to render images in a smart way (Note to me: Must do a Post on how Deep Zoom works) to render the collections.

You can get an invitation by following the dev team in twitter.

VS2010 is going to be a great poroduct, when it goes RTM. I see a lot of effort on making may life as developer a lot more easy. The integration with Visual Studio Gallery is good (could be better, like allowing to search by cost of the extension, more a la site version). On the PDC 2009 MS that the free version of Code Rush will also be available for Vs2010 developers.

I will include some captures as soon as possible.

On the TFS 2010 side, it’s becoming a serious contender on his segment. Now with a native integration with project server, the managers can concentrate all the info in just a a tool and get an updated snapshoot on the project status every time they want.

Also the new compilation farms are nice. The compilation process is now Workflow based, so you can adjust the process with custom activities as you need. That and much more to come.

Once it has been compiled… works like a charm. It is a low end blog. It does not have any of the fancy or the minimum features yet (ie: No RSS/Atom, no anti-spam). The developers also say that is not production ready yet… but I saw some sites using it.

Adding this features seems quite easy since the plug-in/module model is very easy to understand and to code. Rumors say that the Beta version is very close… I’m very happy with this.

Nice code. A Big plus is that my preliminary analysis shows that the persistency layer (it uses a LinqToSql provider) seems quite easy to replace with a more malleable ORM.

In summary: this is a project that you must watch.

Digsby is a all-in-one IM + Email + Social Network client that helps me a lot to be communicated with everyone. Plus is a very good Twitter client (but I am still preferring TweetDeck as my main Desktop client).

Update: By security reasons I removed The twitter integration on the Blog. I’ll attempt to restore it… But all the options I tried did not work with protected accounts.

The First thing that a call center agent should NEVER do is to ask you to erase ALL your data (it does not matter if you have a backup or not).

The Second thing that a call center agent should NEVER do is to assume is talking to an idiot, specially if the customer is giving you signs of knowing what he’s talking about. Do not misunderstood me, I may be a complete idiot, but never attempt to dodge direct questions with stupid answers. This gets the people (me included) really mad.

The Third thing that a call center agent should NEVER do is to, once it realized that is not talking to a stupid, to tell the customer can rapidly recover his system with the Backup tool that the company is selling. How In the gods name I can install such tool, if the component failing is the one used to read the media in which the program comes?

The Fourth thing that a call center agent should NEVER do is to assume I can/want to restore my system, because I a technically skilled person after the System Restore to it’s original status. I will not discuss the security risks of it. I think on the time I would have to spend on restoring the applications and the configuration, restoring the files, and so.

In my past I had to deal several times with call centers, and I even been part on a call center as support engineer… And NEVER ahve been treated as if I was stupid from the moment 0… Very Bad for HP.