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DiscountASP.Net

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:34:57 GMT

With the arrival of ASP.NET 3.5, there is no better and cheaper place to host your website than Discount ASP.NET.

What does Discount ASP.NET offer that other sites don't? For one thing, it's cheap! For $60/year, you can get a personal website running the latest Microsoft ASP.NET technology. Furthermore, there is very little restriction on what you can do (for example, godaddy restricts your webpages from accessing outside web services).

If you want to host a more commercial website with 7 by 24 uptime "guarantee", you may want to try crystal tech. They are more reliable running more powerful servers, but then, they are about twice as expensive as discount asp.net - I guess you get what you pay for.

I have recently set up my techie personal website hosted by discount ASP.NET. I am very happy so far with it.

Virtual Earth and 3D Model with 3DVia

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:36:12 GMT

Microsoft virtual earth has added a beta tool recently called 3DVia. 3DVia makes creation of simple 3D models very easy, plus, it has the ability to upload your 3D creations onto virtual earth to share with the entire world.

I added a model of the Ark Hills building in Tokyo recently. You can access it here. I used to work in this building when I was living in Tokyo.

Google also has a similar tool called sketchup which works with Google Earth.

Fun with Microsoft popfly

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:55:40 GMT

The trully interactive Web is finally here - Web 3.0!

Web 1.0 revolution was driven by businesses publishing contents on the Internet and ways to find information - google, ebay, amazon, etc.

Web 2.0 revolution is driven by average person sharing information about him/herself and by people collaborating - social networking, video publishing, wikipedia, etc.

So, what is Web 3.0? Web 3.0 is the ability to mash up, or combine, information found in various sources to present it to the web. For example, combine google map with craigslist real estates auction will show the local real estates market.

Microsoft Popfly is one of the leaders in creation of mash-up applications. I have only begun to scratch the surface but it already blows me away. Please check out some of my mash-up creations here.

Today My Space Is Born

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:14:59 GMT

I am officially retiring my old space and effective today, this will be my official space.

I am quite impressed by all the facilities available at live.com, especially impressive is the ability to share photos and documents via explicit url reference, a lot more convenient than what google document or flickr has to offer.

If you are a developer, you may want to check out the developer's portal to live.com at dev.live.com. You also want to check out Microsoft Silverlight, which is a great way to create trully rich internet applications - a step beyond what AJAX has to offer.

If you are not a developer but are interested in creating interesting contents, check out Microsoft Popfly. Its mash-up ability to combine information from multiple webpages is trully amazing.

As you can tell, I am trully a Microsoft fan. I love the just released Visual Studio 2008, especially WPF - a trully paradigm shift in creating super looking GUI applications!