Here is the press release we just got from them being awarded the Hosting Solutions Go To Partner.
June 24, 2009 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
MaximumASP Honored as 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards Winner in Hosting Solutions
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, MaximumASP, www.maximumasp.com, proudly announced it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner in Hosting Solutions. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.
“We are thrilled to be recognized from among thousands of Microsoft partners to receive the 2009 Microsoft Partner of the Year award in the Hosting Solutions category,” said Wade Lewis, co-founder and Managing Partner of MaximumASP.
Co-founder and Managing Partner Silas Boyle added, “This award is a great testament to partnership and cooperation that we have worked to develop with Microsoft over the past nine years. We appreciate the recognition and view this as a great symbol of the benefits of a long-term, strategic relationship with Microsoft.”
Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of nearly 2,000 entrants worldwide. The Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year award recognizes partners who have demonstrated solution innovation and a commitment to engaging with Microsoft. As you complete your entry, document how your company and hosted solution focused on an end-customer business challenge either by identifying a new market opportunity or by using technology innovation to address the need. Along with demonstrating innovation, your submission should show how customers have seen you working closely with Microsoft. Showcase this commitment by providing examples, such as which version of Microsoft product your solution is built on or how you have actively promoted your solution through marketing campaigns. Also, if your solution allows for extensive customization or if you are selling through a channel of resellers, be sure to describe those differentiators in as much detail as possible.
To be eligible for this award, you must:
- Be active in the Hosting Solutions competency.
- First profile your nominated solutions in Partner Solution Profiler.
“Microsoft is pleased to recognize MaximumASP as the Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year for its MaxV platform, and for demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of Microsoft technologies,” said Ross Brown, Vice President, Solution Partners and ISVs, Microsoft Corp. “By working closely with Microsoft, MaximumASP contributed to the development of the Microsoft Dynamics Datacenter Toolkit, which enables hosting providers to deploy on-demand managed services and virtualized servers powered by Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center. By utilizing the toolkit, MaximumASP has proven its ability to offer instant scalability, increased support through advanced monitoring, disaster recovery, and ultimately higher customer satisfaction.”
The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.
About MaximumASP
MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Microsoft Windows based hosting and IT services. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 60 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications. For more information, visit www.maximumasp.com.
Home - Atlanta SharePoint User Group
Come hear Tom Scott talk about “SharePoint Infrastructure Planning and Considerations” and Michael Lotter talk about “Building Browser Based InfoPath Forms for the Enterprise”
Next INETA:Career Webcast - June 4, 2009, 6:00 PM ET - Unlocking the hidden value of your organization through people, technology and innovation...
The implications of collaborative innovation are many—the most important being its potential to reshape not just individual enterprises, but whole industries, perhaps even entire economies. Hector believes in investing in innovation in good and bad times. This session covers the alignment of business and technology to create a flexible environment that fosters innovation without permission. How do we get the most out of your employees and how does the employee get the most out of management. Its a WIN-WIN proposition. This session will provide insights on how to unlock all of the assets that are hidden in an organization. i.e., technical, communications, services, experiences, and most important, the employees capabilities and desires. Unlocking thought leadership and innovation is at the heart of this presentation.
Hector Hernandez and Alex Funkhouser of Sherlock Technology Staffing ( http://sherstaff.com ) will present.
Register at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81190787250 or simply attend the LiveMeeting June 4 at 6 PM ET at https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=43ZWP7&role=attend
If you missed the first two webcasts in this series, recordings of both are available on the INETA Live site ( http://live.ineta.org ).
You don't need talent to succeed, but Everything else Counts...
http://live.ineta.org/Videos/Player.aspx?video=debb517c-5f70-47b3-98c3-421eb667a80e
How to talk to your manager about your career and actually make it happen...
http://live.ineta.org/Videos/Player.aspx?video=9d2a4d7d-69ab-47ae-8a23-aa5fc4e492c6
The second meeting of this new monthly User Group is next Monday. Head over to the Atlanta SharePoint User Group website and join the dozens other individuals who have registered. The meeting topic will focus on the development process and experience and will feature our illustrious leader Mr. Attis discussing how to build a proper development environment. We look forward to seeing you there!
The Next Generation of Windows® is almost here!
Microsoft has released a video blog called Talking About Windows.
This video blog provides insight on Windows 7 from the Microsoft engineers who helped build the product.
www.talkingaboutwindows.com
Check out what those who have used the product have to say.
The IT Pro Evangelist in Atlanta will be hosting a Windows 7 loadfest at Microsoft in Alpharetta on June 11th at the Microsoft office. Come Join!
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032410648&culture=en-US
Url: http://www.mobilecampatlanta.org/
Cost: TBD
Twitter: MobileCampAtl
Currently you can follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MobileCampAtl if you want more information or to keep up to date with them.
Also to get more info you can email
jonathan [at] mobilecampatlanta.org
*excerpt from http://mashable.com/2009/04/01/mashable-mixer-atlanta-tickets-now-on-sale/
Mashable and Regator are proud to announce the first ever Mashable event in Atlanta! We have a special evening planned and we look forward to meeting the Atlanta social media community.
Mashable team members in attendance will include Adam Ostrow (Editor-in-Chief), Sharon Feder (Features Editor), myself (Chief Operating Officer) and Brett Petersel (East Coast Events Director).
This event does require you to purchase one of 300 available tickets in order to attend. The event will be hosted at the offices of Paste Magazine.
Visit the Mashable article to learn more
Url: http://www.iphonecampatlanta.org/
Cost: TBD
Twitter: iPhoneCampAtl
I am sure it will make MattR proud that I am letting everyone know about the Atlanta IPhoneCamp later this year.
Currently you can follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/iPhoneCampAtl if you want more information or to keep up to date with them.
Also to get more info you can email
jonathan [at] iphonecampatlanta.org
Notes Online
I’m a major MAJOR fan of OneNote, but it doesn’t really have an online interface which makes it tough to use when you’re really mobile (meaning you don’t have access to YOUR machine). Google has a Notebooks offering and there are wikis galore, but now Live Labs at Microsoft has release a cool new app – Thumbtack. Looks awesome!
Video: Thumbtack Introduction Voice Notes
Lots of devices offer to record voice notes for you, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from offering yet another entry into this crowded space. This time, Recite from Microsoft (currently in beta) promises to add some really killer features to your Windows Mobile device, including a slick UI and the ability to search through your voice notes!
Obituary
Microsoft Encarta has been discontinued
Spring and summer are coming up and what .NET technologist wouldn’t like to steer their children towards a similarly rewarding career as their own? The challenge is, how to get started. Here is where places like Henley’s Haven Workshops come in. Teach your kids about 3D animation and games programming in fun and camp-like settings. Classes are starting soon!
http://henleyworkshops.com/classinfo.html
The following is a description of one of the many classes offered:
Technology Workshop for Kids-
1 hour class, for 12 weeks
$75/month, Pay in full and get a $25 discount.
12 WEEKS INCLUDE: Programming, Create a Video Game, and Web Design
Kids should have basic computer knowledge. Ages 10 and up
Programming Includes:
- Visual Basics for Beginners
- Creating a Project
- The Windows Form Designer
- Writing Visual Basic code
- Compiling, Running and Saving your project
- Errors and Debugging
- Project Files, Properties and Customization
- Data
- Looping
Create a Video Game Includes:
- Backgrounds, Sprites and Images
- Basic sound functions,
- Special effects
- Animated Graphics
- Create your video game
Web Design Includes:
- HTML and JavaScript
- Basic Concepts
- Links
- Body Tags and Lists
- Using Forms
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Create Web Page
- Basic text formatting
- Graphics
- Search Engines and Meta Tags
- Tables
Excellent turn out this past Monday – we probably had around 80 or more people show up to the user group to hear Doug Ware give an introduction to the upcoming Windows 7 operating system and Sergey Barskiy give an introduction to Silverlight.
I’ve been so consumed with work recently that it was great to get out and see all the familiar faces and a bunch of new ones. Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend the Atlanta MS Pros meeting next week, but everyone should come out to see Keith Rome talk about Asynchronous UI in WPF and Silverlight
“Georgia Innovators in Financial Services and Payments Technology”
Thursday, April 2, 2009
7:30 to 9am
Entrepreneurs-only Roundtable 9:15-10:15am
Centergy One Building
75 5th Street, NW
Hodges Room (335)
Atlanta, GA Map
Event is Free for TAG members and $20 for Non members. Entrepreneurs Only Round Table is FREE for everyone.
There is an joint event from TAG and ATDC that you can attend titled “Georgia Innovators in Financial Services and Payments Technology” that will be held on April 2nd, 2009.
Check out the bios of the panel participants:
Lynne Laube, COO and Co-Founder, Cardlytics
Daniel Drechsel, CEO, FTRANS
Gardiner Garrard, CFA, Investment Partner, Total Technology Ventures
If you are interested you Register for the event now.
All I can say is “Holy cow, when can I have this?” Oh, and I’ll pay the $350 for that device!
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/481
Truly awesome stuff coming out of the MIT Media Lab
Thanks go out to Joris for showing me this video
It seems like a mandatory thing – own an iPhone, download a ton of apps (mostly free) and write about them on your blog. My turn.
My Top Ten (this one goes to Eleven!)
Evernote (free) – truly one of the best apps, Evernote is an extremely usable note-taking tool which combines text, photos, and voice notes with a synchonized iPhone client, web client, and desktop client. I’ve personally used this in place of OneNote to effectively take notes at a three day conference where I simply didn’t want to drag my laptop around. Worked beautifully. I’m not as familiar with Evernote as I am with Microsoft’s OneNote (my favorite Office application) but it is a strong contender due to the super-useful iPhone client. I’m sure this will eventually warrant it’s own blog post. I use it and love it.
mBoxMail ($9.99) – thanks to my complete reliance on e-mail and my possibly insane desire to keep my work and personal mail accounts as separate as possible, I was forced to turn to a distinct mobile app for my personal e-mail. I use HotMail as the mail server for DevCow. Until recently, HotMail didn’t offer Pop3 access in the US and the mobile web UI is less than appealing. Along comes mBoxMail (specifically version 2.0 which I am testing in beta) which offers a slew of features I love, including features which are missing from the current default iPhone mail client. I’ve actually written about mBoxMail already. I use it and love it.
CameraBag ($2.99) – the iPhone is just so appealing to grab and play with that the camera on it is seeing a lot more action than any of my previous cameraphones. Unfortunately, Apple didn’t put a good camera here so I’ve picked up CameraBag to improve my photos with a variety of filters and effects that really make a difference. The filters offered here do a variety of neat little edits such as black and white, sepia tones, super-saturation of color and more. Best of all, the effects can be easily layered. This is about as complex as I’d like to manage when editing photos on the iPhone and it works beautifully. I use it and love it.
Tweetie ($2.99) – I really enjoy social networking. I use it a lot, talk about it a lot, and have even co-authored a book about it, Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007. In my social networking life, Facebook and Twitter feature prominently. On my iPhone, I’ve tried out several different Twitter applications and in my mind the undefeated champion is Tweetie. Tweetie offers a great deal of features including the ability to save individual tweets and searches. These last two are favorite features of mine.
Stanza (free) – By far, this is the app I use the most on my iPhone. I’ve got a small library of e-books which I’ve been carrying around for years. This little tool can consume a wide array of formats and offers access to a number of built-in book stores, including a huge amount of free content and the Fictionwise premium store. I’ve never really used a Kindle or the Kindle iPhone app, but I can’t envision myself switching to that given the free content available and the online Google book search stuff recently released.
Facebook (free) – I freely admit that I like Facebook. I even like the new UI with the live feed on the home page. This app makes it easy to keep up on the go with a view into your feed, notifications, and inbox. You can even use this to send photos from your iPhone directly into Facebook (which has dramatically increased the number of photos I upload) as well as to chat with online friends with Facebook Chat. I actually use this mobile application more than I do the website these days.
LiveStrong ($2.99) – This calorie tracker integrates bi-directionally with the Daily Plate feature of LiveStrong.com. I’ve been using this website for nearly a year now and it’s helped me lose (and keep off) nearly 30 lbs since June of 2008. The UI is simple and the food database is enormous (and frequently full of duplicate items). This fits my needs as I’m not looking to count points or strictly regulate anything – I just need a way to keep an eye on what goes into my body so I know when I’m in danger of overdoing it. I managed to scoop this app up while it was still free a while ago.
WootWatch (free) – I love Woot.com. Take a product and discount it, write funny stuff about it, and sell the heck out of it! Great idea! Woot seems to have become a wildly successful little website, so much so that now there is a shirt.woot and a wine.woot. This fantastic little application lets me check in on each one of the woot sites every day and should I so desire, purchase the product right from the app. This is one of the most intuitive and easy to use apps on the phone and I regret that there will not be future updates because the application’s developer was hired into Apple.
Crayon Physics Deluxe ($4.99) – The first game I purchased for the iPhone and still the one I turn to over and over. The game is based on a simple concept – get the little ball to the little star. The trick is that you can draw crayon lines with your fingers and these lines have strength and weight which are affected by physics and gravity. Draw lines, ropes, pulleys, catapults, etc. Get the free desktop demo of this award winning independent game at www.crayonphysicsdeluxe.com. No, really. Go get it. Show it to your kids. Watch the videos on the blog about some of the clever Rube Goldberg solutions.
Lux Touch (free) – Risk for your iPhone. Lots of fun for a free game. I keep coming back to this one when I’ve got time to kill. This is the free version of an $8 game which looks good, but not worth $8 to me (yet).
Wolfenstein 3D Classic ($4.99) – How could I resist this one? The grandfather of first person shooters fully reproduced on the iPhone by the original designer, and completely open source. The game was fun back in the day and the iPhone version has this really amazingly clever touch control that makes it a blast to play. Hunt down some *** today!
Other apps I use (or at least have downloaded and not deleted yet)
Easy Wi-Fi (free) – I’ve not actually used this yet, but the claim is that this tool will streamline the connection to AT&T WiFi (which comes free with the iPhone) whenever you happen to walk into a place that offers AT&T WiFi (Starbucks?). Having attempted to manage the irritating connection details for AT&T wifi when wandering through the airport and such, I have to say that I’m really hopeful that this application lives up to its claims and I never have to deal with that junk again.
Wi-Fi Finder (free) – WiFi is faster and easier on the battery than 3G, so why not use a tool like this free Wi-Fi Finder to locate the nearest publically available and advertised Wi-Fi. Eat lunch there. Browse the web faster and for free on your iPhone at the same time. Good stuff. I’ve used this app once. It turns out that for me, I’m never really just wandering around in parts unknown looking for a wi-fi connection. I always have a destination in mind.
Microsoft Tag Reader (free) – I have no idea if this concept will take off or not, as I’ve only seen a single Microsoft product with a colorful Microsoft Tag on it (and that was a copy of the Halo Wars Xbox 360 game) but if it does take off I’ve got an app which can read them and react accordingly. For those who are unaware, this is similar to a barcode – except it’s a code readible by the terrible cellphone cameras. If we all had high resolution lenses capable of capturing a barcode, I’m sure we’d just be snapping photos of those. Since we don’t, the fine folks at Microsoft Research have come up with this clever information sharing tool. I’ve used this app once, inside the Microsoft store.
Cooliris (free) – search for pictures from a variety of locations like Google and Flickr. If you find one you like, Cooliris lets you set that as your iPhone wallpaper. The UI is pretty neat but there is a ton of data flowing through for this app so be prepared to be a bit patient when on a 3G connection. I use it and love it, although the speed at which it resolves some of the images does occasionally leave something to be desired.
SnapTell (free) – The promise of this app is great – find the book, DVD, CD, or video game you’re looking at in a store more cheaply online. It’s got great reviews in the iTunes AppStore but I’ve never actually used this. I think the reason is that I very rarely buy books, DVDs, CDs, or video games and when I do it’s always online. Come to think of it, that very logic might cause me to uninstall this app and clear out some space
Shovel (free) – Digg news aggregator. Works pretty well, but I’m not a huge fan of Digg so I don’t use this app very frequently. I have another news aggregator I prefer – Mobile News. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with this app, its just that I tend to think that most of the stories which get to the top of Digg are terrible and in general, a waste of time. But that’s just me. I also don’t like that you have to click the story twice to get to the story, the first click takes you to people talking about the story, but that emulates Digg itself.
TED (free) – Unfortunately I have been unable to devote the time I’d like to this app and the associated website. Basically this presents a very compelling UI for access to the video and audio content of the TED convention. The TED convention is a gathering of the best and brightest in the world discussing solutions to real significant problems. The problem is that I’ve never been able to sit around and watch stuff on my mobile devices. Maybe someday, perhaps in an airport.
NPR Mobile (free) – Do you listen to NPR? Do you like the stories and perhaps want to be able to listen to them at your convenience? Would an easy to navigate set of categories help you find what you’re looking for? If you answered yes to these questions, this app is for you! Some content is audio only, some is text and audio, and all of it is pretty darn good. I still tend to use the AP Mobile News app more frequently, but I do like this one b/c I can find the programs I like and see what I’ve missed.
Pandora (free) – Personalized radio on your iPhone. Brilliantly easy and familiar to anyone who uses the desktop version. I’ve never really been a user of this app on the iPhone or desktop b/c I have my Zune with me, but if I need it, I’ve got it.
Shazam (free) – This app is pretty remarkable. It’s able to listen to a song (radio, TV, restaurant background music, whatever) and identify it. It can get a bit screwed up by loud ambient noise, but when the area around you is quiet enough, Shazam is dead-on accurate. Very cool. Once you’ve identified a song, the app will bookmark it for you with a tag which you can refer to later or use to find the song in iTunes for purchase. This is slightly cooler than the Zune FM purchase capability b/c this app recognizes songs from anywhere, not just songs which are coming from a radio station broadcasting RDS.
BargainBin (free) – This app scans through the iTunes AppStore to find the apps which are free or have been marked down. I’ve been able to download at least one application for free which otherwise would have cost me about $3 so it’s been a worthwhile addition, although in general it’s of dubious value in that it mostly reveals applications I don’t care about.
More apps
Other apps I’ve installed and just ran out of patience trying to write a paragraph description for. I’ve included links at least!
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