Author Archive: Efren Toscano

  Today At Mix 09 Microsoft Made several Key Announcements. MVC Release 1.0 Microsoft Announced that the Model View Controler Release 1. This is the first major release of the new framework for them. ASP.NET MVC enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative,…continue reading.

  Today At Mix 09 Microsoft Made several Key Announcements. MVC Release 1.0 Microsoft Announced that the Model View Controler Release 1. This is the first major release of the new framework for them. ASP.NET MVC enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative,…continue reading.

Techzulu live-streamed the famous six-minute presentations of Palm Desert.  This year 39 companies were on stage and over the course of 2 days we had over 120,000 viewers watching on Techzulu Live.  The Demo “winners” historically are chosen by a select elite.  We wanted to see what the viewers had to say. We questioned the…continue reading.

The reverse-google problem is what happens when you want to own a unique identity (i.e. a trademark) when you started with a common language term. Thus Burbank-based NBC owned basic-cable channel the Sci Fi Channel will become SyFy on July 7.  According to Bonnie Hammer, president of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, in the NYT, “We…continue reading.

Built on the concept of making web shopping more human. Working with E-commerce websites and giving the customers a more personalized shopping experience is what 7 Billion People strives to accomplish. Understanding their visitors’ goals and requirements by delivering actionable behavioral analytics and a dynamic web customizations. 7 Billion People gives the E-commerce sites two…continue reading.

Who said you can’t teach an old tiger new tricks? Or is that an old dog? Either way, if you have an older Mac and are web-developer-curious, check this out. As you may know, I am teaching free programming lessons in Venice Mondays 5-7. If you have 2 hours (and a Mac OS X computer,…continue reading.

Today, a deeper dive Microsoft announced the developer strategy for the next generation of Windows® Phones, which includes a number of key benefits for developers. In our previous post, we discussed how Marketplace addresses the challenges of distribution and monetization for developers with an easily discovered, on-device application that can distribute your applications to millions…continue reading.

We have just seen Gartner’s Q4 2008 numbers, and Windows Mobile did pretty well. Many, even Windows Mobile fans, think 2009 will be different, with the iPhone surging back and Android rising from the bottom. Here is why that is wrong, and Windows Mobile will meet its 22 million 2009 target. 1) Aggressive action by…continue reading.

It didn’t take two online privacy groups that long to attack Google’s recent announced interest-based advertising. Electronic Privacy Information and Center for Digital Democracy have similarly attacked the online ad targeting program. For its part, Marc Rotenberg executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said that the interest-based ad targeting is a disaster and…continue reading.

Getty Images, one of the largest photo distributors, has forged a pact with Flickr to commercially license selected user content. Welcome to the Flickr collection a whole new creative universe, chock full of images that capture the passion and personality of a global community of photographers – and of the places they call home. Started…continue reading.