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Long Zheng of iStartedSomething.com has taken it upon himself to enable users to leverage my Windows 7 feature, called Search Federation, to search their Flickr photos from inside the Explorer. It looks like a work-in-progress, and since his service works as a proxy to talk to Flickr, performance isn’t...

The SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension for WSS/MOSS now integrates Expert System’s Cogito Categorizer to enable knowledge management for SharePoint-based portals: SharePartXXL International integrates Cogito Categorizer , an innovative semantic solution for the automatic classification of information developed...

As we announced as PDC earlier this week, Windows 7 includes rich search federation using the OpenSearch and RSS/Atom standards. I’ll be talking much more about it in the future, but I wanted to give you all a chance to check out the publicly accessible demo SharePoint server that we used during...

It’s been a whirlwind of a trip here in LA.  When I arrived I thought I’d be blogging, posting photos, and keeping in touch with the outside world the whole time.  Well, that didn’t quite work out.  There was always so much going on and so much to do, that the little downtime I had [....

About a week ago we posted an entry to the Windows 7 Engineering Team Blog about Windows Desktop Search, describing the motivation behind indexing files and what investments we’re making in that area of the system. It’s a good read so check it out if you haven’t already. This afternoon...

A company’s products and service are its backbone and a high-quality and well-structured vocabulary of the standard product and service terms that are important to your company is crucial for your employees to unlock the value of unstructured data in your company. For categorizing / tagging any SharePoint...

By far the most common and effective method of finding information is browsing a structured classification system (taxonomy). If you want to categorize any SharePoint item or document based on centrally managed cross-site tree-style categories you can use the SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension for Microsoft...

SharePartXXL International GmbH is a worldwide provider of applications and solutions that add additional features to Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) typically required in Internet-, extranet- and intranet projects. Web Parts are developed...

In addition to the aforementioned e-mailing, I also spent a little of the weekend on some personal projects, and did some poking around at the OpenSearch discussion group.  I was curious about the fact that OpenSearch 1.1 has been stuck in “Draft 3″ status for well over a year now. ...

When I first posted about the WS4 release on Neowin a few members had a response that I had never expected.  Some examples: Windam - I wonder why this would be released for Vista since search is already a well integrated feature to begin with. Is it just because(optional)? Maudit - Pardon my ignorance...