It seemed appropriate to give this post a title of "Geek Week Review" since I haven't blogged since Monday, and it's now Saturday. Unusual span of bloglessness for me. We'll see if it becomes a trend. I've been spending latenights reading Stephen Ambrose and Jeff Shaara instead of Microsoft Press and am enjoying the heck out of it. Doesn't make for prolific blogging though.
SHAREPOINT RECYCLE BIN. My Systems Admin is going to be so pleased! It seems we finally have undelete options in Sharepoint, thanks to some smart Sharepoint proficienados who made right Microsoft's wrong of not including Undelete in a document management system back in 2001 with the release of Sharepoint Portal Server 1.0. Thanks to Chris Johnson via Andrew Connell.
"WEB 2.0" APP LIST. Emily Chang's eHub lists around 100 interesting applications and topics having to do with the loosely joined, mashed-up and nutty world of Web 2.0. Lots of samples on the list for my Ajax-crazed buds out there.
OLD SCHOOL APPROACH TO GETTING BLOG TRAFFIC. Intelligent Bacon with 16 ways to drive traffic to your blog, mostly consisting of old school advice that we tend to forget; stuff like listing your blog on all correspondence, linking to your blog from all web pages, that sort of thing. My take is that you come up with a clever title like "Intelligent Bacon" and write about whatever the hell you want to write about.
STEVE JOBS' USE OF SLIDES DURING A PRESENTATION. Spend 20 seconds to scroll through images of Steve Jobs with huge slides behind him during a recent presentation. As described on Presentation Zen blog page, Visual Simplicity as its best. Also a link to the entire presentation if interested.
GOOGLE OFFICE -- WTF? I didn't know what to think of the Sun-Google announcement earlier in the week. Thanks to this Michael Arrington TechCrunch post for putting me on my way to reason. Conclusion: WHAT announcement?
ED ZANDER DOES NEIL DIAMOND ON A ROKR. Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola, delivers a presentation at MIT's Technology Review Magazine's 2005 TR35 Conference. Here's the conference podcast link (thanks Matt Pasiewicz.) Ed talks about "seamless mobility" and demonstrates many cool Motorola phones. 1000-tune ROKR is around the corner. Also reminded once again that South Korea and most of the Far East has much faster broadband than we in the U.S. Two final sidebars: Janeane Garofalo joined the Santos Campaign on The West Wing (yeah, the TV show) on this past week's episode. She tells them she's waiting to hear Neil Young out of the campaign but only gets Neil Diamond. A great line. Anyway, Ed was insistent that he demo one of his favorite singers on his phone to the audience. After several attempts he was finally successful. You got it. Neil Diamond. Second sidebar, Ed demo'd some brand new phone, started cranking out some video on it and discovered he couldn't turn the thing off. Funny. I'm a Ed Zander fan, by the way. Just thought those incidents were funny, along with Ed saying a couple of times that he will give anyone a new Motorola phone in exchange for Red Sox tickets. Actually one of the best podcasts I heard for the week: 3.5-out-of-5 stars.
I think that does it for my Geek Week roundup on this rainy (finally feeling like Fall) day in Vermont. Have an exciting Geek Week out there!