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Microsoft Creates Online Game to Promote Office and SharePoint 2010 (RICG)
Using interactive games to promote products and services is a relatively new marketing strategy that is quickly becoming popular with businesses across industries. Now, ReadWriteWeb reports Microsoft is using online games to tout the power and capabilities of its Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 programs.

RIP Google Wave (CNN)
Google's attempt to reinvent e-mail has fizzled. The company said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on Google Wave, a collaborative tool that drew intense attention when it debuted last year. "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of operations, wrote in a post on the company's blog. "We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects."

Windows Phone 7: What Microsoft Needs to Get Right (Top10.com)
Microsoft’s new smartphone operating system is set to hit retail shelves this fall, with a European launch hinted at October. But will the Redmond-based firm’s latest bid to regain its place in a tightly contested smartphone market have the desired impact, or will it add to a growing list of the software giant’s recent failures? Ask anyone with the slightest insight into the mobile phone industry about Microsoft’s prospects for its much-touted Windows Phone 7 operating system and they will typically come up with the same answer: a failure in the making.

Microsoft Sets Stage for IE9 Beta (PCWorld)
Microsoft on Wednesday updated its bare-bones preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build. on Wednesday updated its bare-bones preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build.

Cloud Computing: Whose Crystal Ball is Correct? (CIO)
There has been a spate of interesting - and contradictory - stories and research reports about how enterprises are or will embrace cloud computing, topped off by a report by Forrester analyst James Staten that concludes that for all the talk about private clouds, they're a pipe dream for all but a few enterprises.

Microsoft's Not-so-secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP (ComputerWorld)
Microsoft isn't particularly pleased about the continuing success of Windows XP, which has more than twice the installed base of Windows Vista and 7 put together. So it's trying its hardest to kill the operating system that won't die, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, putting many XP users at risk. Is that the right way to get people to upgrade?

Commerce Department Seeks Advice On Cybersecurity (Information Week)
Businesses, academics and the general public have been asked for input on cybersecurity's economic impact, authentication and identity-management technologies, research and development priorities and more.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Best Practice: Attend the Best Practices Conference (Ruven’s SharePoint Blog)
Sometimes, when I am a few weeks away from speaking at a conference, a friend in the town where I’m going may write to me to say: What times are you speaking? Maybe we can meet up right after your session. I have to let my friend down gently and tell them: Sorry, I’m not just there to speak, but to learn as well.

SharePoint Site Recycle Bin for SharePoint 2010 (Bill Baer)
The SharePoint Site Recycle Bin for SharePoint 2010 is available for download at http://governance.codeplex.com.

Features of a SharePoint 2010 Learning Platform - The Power of Search for Learning (1 of 3) (SharePoint in Education)
A long running debate within our team at Twynham has taken place about the most important aspect of a SharePoint Learning Platform. Dave Coleman has always argued that search is the key attribute which makes the learning experience vastly improved within SharePoint. Although I did not agree with Dave that search was key with SharePoint 2007 it has made major steps forward in SharePoint 2010 and in many ways is now comparable with the same search experience learners will find with the Internet.

Community Influencers Step by Step (End User SharePoint)
Suppose you need to find the influencers for your brand in a community, how would you go about doing this? What kind of data do you need, and where do you start? Good question, today I am going to show you, step by step, how to find influencers in an online community. I will use Lithium’s own online community, Lithosphere, in the following example, but you can do the same with any social media platform.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
This Week in Bamboo (July 18th, 2010 - July 24th, 2010) (The Bamboo Team Blog)
For This Week in Bamboo, we fixed some bugs and released patch for SharePoint 2007 Data-Viewer Web Part.  With the new release of Data-Viewer Web Part (R3.1.26) we fixed the issue when user tries to perform calculation on a number column and get problem to format a sum on column if the column contains decimals.  More information about the bug fixed can be found below.

Recovering a SharePoint Navigators Tab or List in SharePoint Project Management Central (The Bamboo Team Blog)
One of the fun aspects of my job is that I get to intentionally break Web Parts or cause errors so that I can figure out a) what not to do and b) how to fix problems. I recently spent some time playing around with the SharePoint Navigators Web Part, which lets you easily create customized tabs, menus and tree items. After my time in the sandbox (and thanks to some guidance from Bamboo PM Girl and one of our engineers), I came up with solutions to two possible problems:

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
Microsoft SharePoint Administrator - Columbus, OH
Responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of SharePoint including general functional configuration of SharePoint, user access and administration and tool wide search configuration. The ideal candidate will have experience architecting, designing, engineering, and proposing SharePoint solutions and have the ability to effectively communicate with clients and internal resources.

Senior SharePoint Developer - Gaithersburg, MD
We are looking for a candidate to join our SharePoint practice. The initial project involves working with our client in Gaithersburg on site to enhance and add additional functionality, create workflows and help create input for the optimal settings for the SharePoint Server. SharePoint 2007, WSS and MOSS. This will be a multi-faceted position which will include supporting the servers, developing the portal interfaces, collaborating with our client’s internal developers and helping them understand and work effectively with their new system. You will also be working with the upper management to give them some higher level insight into how to fully utilize, to whatever extent possible, the SharePoint system.

 

Microsoft Updates
SQL Server is under a heavy load when you perform a profile import in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario. A manager has thousands of direct reports. When you perform a profile import in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, many colleagues are auto-populated from the organization hierarchy. In this scenario, many colleague connections are created. Therefore, Microsoft SQL Server is under a heavy load when the daily or the hourly Shared Services Provider (SSP) timer job runs to create colleague connections.

 

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