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WebMatrix 3 (preview)

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WebMatrix3 preview is available for download.

New changes for even simpler website creation

In addition to everything which WebMatrix 2 offers, WebMatrix 3 brings you easy access to your Windows Azure websites. Icon-sized previews of your sites make them easy to find and open. Access your remote sites as seamlessly as local sites. When you need to protect your work or collaborate on team projects, you’ll love our integration of Git and TFS source control systems. These are just a few of the highly requested features we’ve added in WebMatrix 3!
http://www.microsoft.com/web/post/webmatrix-3-preview-how-to-articles

 

Try it out today on http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/next/

Age of Empires II HD Edition

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Key Highlights:

  • Re-mastered for high resolution displays 1080p+.
  • Enhanced visual engine with improved terrain textures, water, fire and ambient lighting effects.
  • New Steamworks features: Achievements, Leaderboards, Matchmaking and Cloud support.
  • Share user created content with Steam Workshop support.

An HD version of Age of Empires II ! whoho!

Too bad it will normally only be available via Steam. :-(

More info at:

It would be very cool if they integrated the Forgotten Empires mod version!

ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content

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What does it mean for online content to “go viral”? An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the first quantitative notion of whether something has indeed gone viral, thereby enabling further research into topic experts, trending topics, and viral-incident metrics.

More info at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=185452

SketchInsight: automatically completing sketches

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SketchInsight is an interactive whiteboard system for storytelling with data by using real-time sketching. Creating personalized, expressive data charts becomes quick and easy. The presenter simply sketches an example, and SketchInsight automatically completes the chart by synthesizing from example sketches.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/sketchinsight/index.html