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The folks at Aardvark have posted an ambitious paper over on the ‘vark blog . Titled after Brin and Page’s original “Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” , the paper presents the Aardvark engine and, in its authors’ words: “describes the fundamental differences between the traditional “Library” paradigm of web search — in which answers are found in existing online content — and the new “Village” paradigm of social search — in which answers arise in conversation with the people in your network.” I have read most of the paper, which has been accepted at WWW Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine

As of today, according to the LinkedIn Blog , users of the popular career-oriented social network can rearrange the order in which elements appear in a member’s profile — the page on the site that displays information about one’s background. In the past, profiles have been structured like standard résumés, with elements appearing in fixed order: a header, a text summary, optional applications like blog links, experience, education, recommendations, and an “additional information” section with web links, awards and such. Now, when you click on “Edit Profile,”you’ll see a four-way arrow to the left of the section names.

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LinkedIn Offers Users Increased Control Over Profiles

Selling your services to people can seem like a hit-and-miss proposition, but if you understand the purchase decision-making process, you’ll have a better grasp on the factors that affect your ability to sell. More importantly, though, if you understand the purchase decision-making process, you’ll be able to target your communications and sales efforts to help move prospects toward purchase.

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Move Prospects to Purchase Using Decision Theory

3 major features added to XamlPadSample today! Including Alternate Views, which has not been done in any XamlPad or XamlDesigner that I’m aware of. (link to previous posts/overview & sample code available via XamlPadSample ) App.xaml Support for {StaticResource} View pane now shows result of {StaticResource} or {DynamicResource} resolution of resources from app.xaml. Shown loading Welcome.xaml from Family.Show v3

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XamlPadSample Step 1f-alternateViews, app.xaml & assembly loading

I have never been too fond of radical feminism or any form of extremism for that matter; finding it to be an aggressive, usually narrow and unhelpful approach to conflict resolution. Radicalism is often reactionary, manifesting as a reaction to some undesired reality and is usually the preserve of those who feel they have something to defend against all costs and something to fight for against whatever odds. As an activist, I have found that radicalism has its place, its use and its benefits in pursuing the elusive goal of attaining social justice for womankind

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Kicking out paternalism

2300 years ago, Aristotle wrote down the secret to being a persuasive speaker , the secret which forms the basis for nearly every public speaking book written since then. Do you know the secret? If you don’t, you might be wondering what a 2300-year-old theory has to do with public speaking in the year 2010

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Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking

PlayStation players to publish their greatest achievements to YouTube Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced that the video game Just Cause® 2 for the PlayStation® 3 will ship with a built-in video capture feature, allowing players to record clips of their greatest in-game exploits and upload directly to YouTube®. With some of the most incredible emergent action sequences seen in any game, Just Cause 2 frequently features moments which simply defy description.

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Built-in Video Capture to Ship with Just Cause 2

Confessions of a Public Speaker is a highly entertaining and insightful insider’s view of public speaking, with value for speakers of all levels. This article is the latest of a series of public speaking book reviews here on Six Minutes .

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Book Review: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Scott Berkun)

Presentation and Eye Appeal What would your reaction be if you were served a plate of food at a restaurant that had dust, lint, or smudges on the dish? Now let’s switch this scenario around and put this in the context of a job seeker presenting a portfolio that has dust, lint, and smudges on the

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The Do’s and Don’ts of a Successful Portfolio – Part II

Webmaster Level: Beginner Want to eat healthier and exercise more in 2010? That’s tough! Want to learn about search engine optimization (SEO) so you can disregard the rumors and know what’s important? That’s easy! Here’s how to gain SEO knowledge as you go about your new start to 2010: Step 1: Absorb the basics If you like to learn by reading, download our SEO Starter Guide for reading while you’re on an exercise bike, training for Ironman

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Google SEO resources for beginners

Six Minutes weekend reviews are back for a third year of bringing you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: speechwriting lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.; structuring your presentation logically; becoming aware of your voice; benefits of a flip chart; mistakes with visuals; speaker habits; stages in a professional speaking career; and more! From the Six Minutes Archives  One Year Ago from Six Minutes … Speech Analysis: I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King Jr

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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-01-15]

The last couple of days I’ve been searching and evaluating some point of sale systems for a friend… I found a excellent solution from openbravo ! It has just one problem (that could easily be fixed using WPF). The software is designed to run on 1024 x 768! Their are some tweaks you can do to force it to run on 800 x 600 but some panels still do not render properly! I want to run this solution on a panel pc that can only do 800 x 600! Introducing the ViewBox “Defines a content decorator that can stretch and scale a single child to fill the available space.” Now I can place my content inside the ViewBox and always assume I will be displayed at x resolution, if not… it will auto-magically resize it for me!!! Easy

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View-the-box

This weekend was Devs4Devs and we had a blast! Here is my slide deck SketchFlow in 20 minutes or less Thank you to everyone who attended my session! Since joining BB&D , I also get a opportunity to present ASTRA or TR sessions, here is the slide decks of my recent presentations Composite Application Library (PRISM) SketchFlow What’s new in Silverlight 3.0 ImagineCup 2009 – Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008 I will also start slowly uploading older presentations from Tech-ed and Developer Days!

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Devs4Devs “The Challenge”

Ever noticed the subtle progress overlay while downloading something from the internet? With Windows 7’s new taskbar, applications can visually display their progress on the taskbar! We first need to set the mode TaskbarManager.Instance.SetProgressState(TaskbarProgressBarState.Normal); The Windows 7 taskbar has 5 possible states NoProgress – No progress is displayed. Indeterminate – The progress is indeterminate (marquee).

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Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Progress

Everyone breathes. It’s one of the most natural things we do. However, if you ask singers to name the most important part of vocal technique, 9 out of 10 will say “breathing.” So, is there some special way to breathe that makes your voice better?  Yes! In this article, we explore breathing as it relates to vocal variety as a speaker .

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Breathing: The Seductive Key to Unlocking Your Vocal Variety

While many articles try to dissect the process of designing a logo itself, I will attempt to share tips from my experiences with branding-focused logo design for the real world. Photo by lpwines With the surge of “stock” logos, the quality of branding for new companies is literally going downhill. Many new designers fail to see that a logo, unlike any other design element, is literally the face of a company, and hence attached to a much larger beast

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5 Branding Basics Every Logo Designer Should Know

It turned out that the people we were presenting to were endowed with all the responsibility to implement the project, but none of the power to make the important decisions – such as which consultants would be hired. Josiane Feigon , author of the bestselling book “ Smart Selling on the Phone and Online ” and creator of the top business blog Cubicle Chronicles has identified the six transforming sales trends every busy web worker needs to know about to survive and thrive.

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6 Sales Skills to Supercharge Your Productivity

Nancy Duarte, and the crew at Duarte design recently posted a video they created for Microsoft to show off PowerPoint 2010 called “Five Rules for Presentations ”. From their blog : “We used PowerPoint 2010–and only PowerPoint 2010–to create a short trailer sharing “5 Rules for Creating Great Presentations .” (See Read more at the Duarte Design blog . It’s got some great advice in it, and clocking in at just under 5 minutes it’s a quick watch too

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Duarte’s Five Rules for Presentations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 scientific and technical achievements represented by 46 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at The Beverly Wilshire on Saturday, February 20, 2010. Unlike other Academy Awards to be presented this year, achievements receiving Scientific and Technical Awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2009. Rather, the achievements must demonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures

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Academy Hands Out Sci-Tech Honors

Also note, that while I submitted several presentations , that does not mean that I will end up moderating all of them if they end up being selected. As we did with the San Francisco event where I submitted sessions that were accepted on enterprise micro- blogging and OpenSocial in the enterprise, we can load-balance and shuffle moderators. My co-worker, Alice Wang, and myself will present research findings on how organizations Community voting is now open, if you find the sessions below of interest, please participate in the selection process

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Session Proposals