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As I have mentioned recently, we (Telligent) are starting to implement distributed caching in Community Server and will likely build it in early in some of the other product work we are doing. While we are not yet done with this work, there are some early patterns and tips I think you will find helpful.

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Windows Live Writer is still best desktop blogging tool on the "market", but as the name implies it only works on Windows.

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I was trying to install Windows Live Writer on a new windows box and was greeted with something I thought had been put to rest many years ago.

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Mashable has a story, "iPhone App Store Prices are Outrageous and it Needs to Stop" which criticizes some of the crappy applications available in the AppStore.

...but why hasn’t anyone even mentioned the fact that most of the paid applications aren’t all that great and more often than not, they’re incredibly overpriced?

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O'Reilly has made the move to expand their EBook select to a couple of additional formats including Amazon's Kindle format. What is also very interesting is they have chose to ship the books DRM free.

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Microsoft announced yesterday that they are going to offer very low cost hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint. 

For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out of the hosted-services business with its Microsoft Online services offerings, their nightmares were realized on July 8. Microsoft is planning to sell Microsoft-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for $3 per user per month.

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I watched the excellent TED talk, "Do schools kill creativity?" by Sir Ken Robinson and the following quote really stuck out to me:

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I could not have said it better myself. “This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” the person said. [ Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Wont Embrace Microsofts Windows Vista ] I know there is a better security...

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