Madd0's Tech Blog

I don't know if other people will find this as funny as I do, or if it's just too late and I'm to tired so my humor is "special" right now, but still...

I was writing a sample for my new book, when suddenly I ended up with the following desktop:

And then people wonder why I'm never on time...

I was at Biarritz today. Take a look at a couple of pictures:

You're probably wondering what this is all about? It's kind of late, so come back in a couple of hours for the explanation ;)

...with tafiti!

Tafiti, from Swahili "do research," is a new Silverlight application by Microsoft that approaches searching the Web in a rather original way.

Of course, egomania dictates that I must demo by tafiti-ing (?) my name, so here's the video (captured with CamStudio):

As you can see, you get to preview, filter and save results in categories such as Web, Blogs and Images.

There's also the tree view, which presents results in a, albeit, useless, but interesting way.

To test tafiti by yourselves all you need is a couple of things:

1. A browser. It can be any of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari on Windows or Mac.
2. Silverlight. Which you can get from silverlight.net, or better yet, just follow directions when you visit tafiti.com for the first time.

My only regret is that tafiti obviously uses search results from Microsoft Live Search, and I've already commented on what I think about those. As a matter of fact, look at search results from Google and tafiti, respectively, for the keyword "tafiti":

Sure, one of them looks nicer than the other, but who do you think I'll visit more often to get up-to-date results?