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Here is a neat little video on Mozilla's new Firefox extension: Ubiquity . Some of the future digital trends it highlights, include: User-generated Mash-Ups: Allowing users (not just developers) to quickly combine information and services from multiple sources. The Semantic Web: Allowing machines to understand language to better understand human requests. The value of web services. I look forward to the day that voice-recognition software becomes ubiquitous. It's surprising to me that it... Read More...

I was working with a web service client that talked to SharePoint this week. I wrote a quick Silverlight app that extracted a list of tasks out of a SharePoint list. I love how simple this is to tap into: http://sharepoint.yourcompany.com/_vti_bin/lists.asmx The previous URL will show the path to one of the web services provided out-of-the-box by SharePoint. This particular web service provides several methods for dealing with SharePoint lists. I just needed to call the GetListItems() method and... Read More...