Alex Golesh's Blog About Silverlight Development

“Off topic” - Google: You liked hamburger? We know where you want to shop for outdoor activities gear!

Today I was pretty amazed and decided to share my experience! Here it goes…

I am at business trip in Redmond, WA. Yesterday I had a launch at one of Red Robin's restaurants near my hotel at Overlake shopping center. I found the place using Latitude application on my Android phone and since the burger was very good, decided to “check-in” into the place and even had a small positive review:

Today I decided to go shopping for some “outdoor activities” gear and searched for REI store. For my complete surprise search engine suggested me some specific store based on my previous activities online:

I was simply amazed! This is definitely “intelligent” way to improve search results

Keep it up, Google!

Alex

I’m Microsoft MVP for Third Time!

About 15 minutes ago, I received an email presenting me with the Microsoft MVP Award in Silverlight!

I am very honored to receive an MVP Award for third time in row and I will continue contributing to the online and offline developer community in Israel and abroad.

This is a great opportunity and place to thank quite a few people who helped me to win this Award for third time:

• My wife and daughter for having so much patience and providing the best support I could only dream about!
• My current and past managers (David, Ishai, Caro) and coworkers at Sela Group, which is easily the best software company to work for that I could think of;
• All other peoples who helped me get this MVP award;

Stay tuned for posts on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7!

Alex