Nuri Cankaya

Interview with the RobotTurk Team

nuric — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:09:00 GMT

Omer Celik and Oguz Bayrakdar produced a flying rescue robot RobotTurk. They were selected as Heroes at Heroes Happen Here Launch at Los Angeles, after this event we made an interview with the team. They are explaining the details of their projects.

About RobotTurk: The project includes a flying robot developed for automatic video transfer when a natural disaster occurs. The robot will use Silverlight streaming media strength and Windows Server 2008 media services and IIS 7.0 as a web application pool. It's most innovative part is it will be fully controlled by Microsoft Robotics Studio. The robot wil have the capability of flying in a selected region, and stream the video from disaster area; it will help to rescuers to find out what is really happening there, because they don't have a direct transportation to there because of the disaster.

RobotTurk Success in Heroes Happen Here Launch

nuric — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:08:00 GMT

Two robotics enthusiasts Omer Celik and Oguz Bayrakdar made a project with Microsoft Robotics Studio using 2008 Launch Wave products: RobotTurk. They were selected as the Heroes from Turkey and participated in the Los Angeles Launch Event at Feb 27th, 2008. In the video you can see the details of the project and interview with Joseph Landes-Launch Manager, Ward Ralston-Windows Server Group Technical Product Manager and Norman S. Guadagno-Director of Visual Studio Team System. For detailed information about project you can visit: www.robotturk.eu

Using Silverlight In Facebook

nuric — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:13:00 GMT

In this video interview I'm chatting with the ImagineCup 2008 and S2B Facebook applications creator Daron Yondem. In both applications Silverlight is used as the underlying technology. Let's discover the basics of cool social network applications in this video.

AVEA Windows Live Messenger is launched

nuric — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:53:00 GMT

We are launching Windows Live mobile messenger with Avea in Turkey. Avea is the second carrier in Turkey which will have Windows Live mobile IM after Turkcell. The service will be targeted to Avea’s 7.5 million number of subscribers. This is yet another milestone in addressing the mobile market in Turkey as well as addressing our 24 million IM users.

For more information on this service, you can go to the following microsite Mini-site http://www.avea.com.tr/msnwindowslivemessenger/index.html?banner=mainpromo-1A-messenger

TTNetMuzik.com It's here, listen to it...

nuric — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:52:00 GMT

TTNet, the largest ISP of Turkey with 99.1% ADSL subscriber market share, launched its Music download and stream service with 80.000 Turkish songs. The service, offering Windows DRM’d songs and only in WMA format in cooperation with MU-YAP and also powered by MOSS 2007. Songwriters will receive a commission fee from every downloaded piece of art. Subscribers with the cheapest package will be able to download only 10 songs in a month while upper packages offer the right for 500 songs. Only in first day, before even announced, 23.000 songs were downloaded from the service. You, too, can search (using MOSS Search), find and listen to your favorite songs. Log on to the service using your TTMail account and start using it now: www.ttnetmuzik.com

Live Messenger for Mobile Launched in Turkey

nuric — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:07:00 GMT

As Microsoft Turkey we have launched Windows Live messenger for mobile with Turkcell which is the leading GSM operator. We are very excited to be launching this service in Turkey to Turkcell’s 34.5m number of subscribers. With this Windows Live Messenger, we will not only be reaching to new users but offer a new touch point to 23 million Turkish IM users. For more information on this service, you can go to the microsite .

The service is being announced on MSN TR platform www.tr.msn.com and on TVs with an excellent TV commercial.

NEW GENERATION MSN MESSENGER IS NOW ON THE MOBILES OF TURKCELL SUBSCRIBERS

Thanks to the cooperation between Turkcell, the leading GSM operator in Turkey and Microsoft, global technology leader, Windows Live Messenger, is now on the mobiles of Turkcell subscribers. MSN users will now be able to log into the service and communicate with their online friends on their mobile phones, which will allow them to access, on their mobiles, the fast and easy chat environment that they have become accustomed to using on their PCs. Through its cooperation with Microsoft, Turkcell has now made Windows Live Messenger mobile. The service will allow MSN users to log into the service and communicate with their online friends on their mobile phones, thereby allowing them to access the fast and easy chat environment that they have become accustomed to using on their PCs.

By texting MSN to 7777 and downloading the application, Turkcell subscribers can access Windows Live Messenger wherever they are, send as many messages as they’d like, and stay online for as long as they want without paying an extra fee. The application includes many features that are available on the PC client, and constitutes a safe solution to access Windows Live Messenger via the mobile phone, in terms of user privacy and password security.

Windows Live Messenger is now available on Nokia 6151, 6233, 6280, 6288, 6630, 6680, N70, N73 and N95.

Are You Ready For a Second Life?

nuric — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:18:00 GMT

In this interview we are talking with Tarik Kranda who is a gaming enthusiast. Our subject is Second Life, how it is used in Turkey now and what are the future benefits of being in Second Life. We are also discussing Visual Studio Island on Second Life.

Interview about i-Robot Basics

nuric — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:06:00 GMT

In this video interview we are chatting with a robotics enthusiast Burak Sarica. He is the program manager of S2B in Microsoft Turkey but he is also a fan of iRobot Create. He explains us what is iRobot, what can we do with iRobot and of course he makes a live demo. I also asked him about Microsoft Robotics Studio and can we use MSRS to program iRobot?

Let's Discover Live Search

nuric — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:26:00 GMT

Live Search is a set of different search tools and options that shifts search experience. In this screencast we will cover basic search options and after text, image and video search we will look to the products search, health search, book search also. After 6 November 2007 the relevance of Live Search is increased tremendously; especially in Turkey. So I recommend you to use www.live.com for local and global searches.

Sultanahmed Square Photosynth Collections

nuric — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:14:00 GMT

By using Photosynth in Turkey we have created some important collections. By the help of photo enthusiasts we have taken more than 5000 pictures in the historical Sultanahmed Square. The first two collections that I will demo in the screencast is Blue Mosque and German Foundation.

German Fountain, Istanbul ,Turkey
The German Fountain (in Turkish Alman Cesmesi) is a gazebo styled fountain in the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square), Istanbul, Turkey and across from the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed I. It was constructed to commemorate the second anniversary of German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898. It was built in Germany, then transported piece by piece and assembled in its current site in 1900. The neo-Byzantine style fountain's octagonal dome has eight marble columns, and dome's interior is covered with golden mosaics.

Blue Mosque - Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii) is a mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is one of several mosques known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built between 1609 and 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah and a hospice. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque has become one of the greatest tourist attractions of Istanbul.

Close Look To Tafiti

nuric — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:31:00 GMT

Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili language, is a different search tool that we are not familiar with so much when you think about the alternatives. It uses Silverlight technology for visualization and Live Search as the underlying search technology. With a combination of these two important Technologies; tafiti gives a different user experience. If you haven’t used Tafiti, I recommend you to watch screencast that I recorded and try it yourself: www.tafiti.com

If you like the idea of getting Silverlight and Live Search together, I also recommend you to look Windows Live Quick Applications (beta) site and also you can download Tafiti code that is available now.

Microsoft Virtual Earth Mashups

nuric — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:10:00 GMT

Microsoft Virtual Earth gives you a flexible web environment that you can use it as a mashup in many different applications. In this screencast you will first see http://maps.live.com , we will look Istanbul map and then Chicago bird-eye view; after this we will look http://preview.local.live.com for a Seattle downtown tour mashup application using Microsoft Virtual Earth, and finally we will have a silverlight integrated demo http://contosobicycleclub.mslivelabs.com that uses map service with a streaming video application.