Bingle and Lmgtfy

Today I was told about 2 really cool utilities(?) Thanks to Mike and Steve on my SCOM course!

www.bingle.nu Check it out :-)

and then this one!

Do you get asked for links or references to sites? use this then as you answer. Make sure you follow the sytax though.
Put it into an email response as a link and wait for the response, if any!
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=***   replacing the stars with want you want to search for. For example Microsoft, Google etc.
Have fun...

Customising your Communicator client

One of the the really cool things about the next release of OCS, entitled Microsoft Communications Server "14" is the integration with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Developers are able to utilitise Silverlight and WPF to extend teh Commuicator experience. For example you can provide the same integration experience you are used to in Office within the Communicator client. Examples are, contact search, contact lists, presence, contact details and so on. You can also pass contextual data from you application by using the new contextual conversation API.
To see this in action have a look at this video on the PDC09 website

Microsoft Office Communications server is No More! Hello to Microsoft Communications Server

Looks like we have a name change.
So its goodbye to the Office part of OCS and hello to CS 2010?
Check out this video which demonstrates the name change. This is from Tech-Days series of videos and you can get them here
The title shows the name change rather nicely. The video is entitled  "Introduction to Microsoft Communications Server “W14″