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We have published a new version of a Google Gadget that counts up the days since the Cubs or Red Sox have won the World Series and how many days are left until opening day. It should be in the iGoogle Directory soon, but for now you can add it to your iGoogle page or your own website by using the following URL:

Add Gadget!

From a technical standpoint, the count-up and countdown functions were developed in Flash and called to the gadget using Google’s APIs. Other APIs used include tab functionality and the second tab features an RSS feed that displays news from whichever team you choose to display. We at MC+A recommend the Chicago Cubs, naturally, despite the HUGE number displayed since they won. With 500+ users already, we’d like to see more fans display this gadget on their pages.

Add it to your site today!

We’ve received numerous requests over the past couple of months on using OneBox technology to pull data from SAP systems. We’ve created a solution offering for customers that employs our SAP OneBox Framework. We can use this framework to pull a variety of SAP data out of Netweaver. We’ve developed a sample using the classic flight data scenario.

Check out our PowerPoint presentation on our offering through this link:

Get Presentation Here!

MC+A is pleased to announce its upcoming webinar series. The webinars will be hosted in conjunction with our partners. Events will occur on Tuesday and Thursday. Please goto the webinar event page at:

http://www.mcplusa.com/company/webinars.aspx

For future details you can also contact us by our online form

An increasing number of our customers are discovering the undocument limitation in the SharePoint Web Service SiteData. While this API is sparsely documented to begin with, users are not aware that if there are over 1000 subsites within an Application (i.e. http://mysharepoint.company.com ) the GetSite method returns no subsites. As you would expect, having subsites is critical to any type of crawl functionality.

Until Microsoft fully discloses the bug, you can read Joel Oleson, and some commentors, discuss how its used as part of SharePoint. It’s really unknown how this bug impacts SharePoint functionlaity.

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/01/28/anatomy-of-indexing.aspx

Because of this limitation, MC+A pulled the vetern GSS Web Part out of the closet and developed the GSS into the SFGSA. The feeder provides the same basic functionality as the Google Enterprise Connector, but utlizes the SharePoint Object Model.

You can request a meeting with us about it by filling out the following online form:

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MC+A is proud to announce the opening of an office to serve clients in the San Fransico area.

MC+A, A North America leader in technologies related to enterprise search, today is announcing the opening of its newest office in Santa Cruz, CA. The new office will provide technology products, service and support to MC+A’s expanding customer base in the San Fransico Bay area. This office expands MC+A’s global footprint and underscores the company’s standing as the leading figure implementing Google enterprise technologies.

San Francisco, CA
1213 Ocean Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Thanks to Adam Jenkin for reporting an issue with the GSALib. We now have released an update that moves the configuration from a seperate file to the appSettings of the configuration file.

There is also the simplest of demonstrations of how to use the library in an ASP.Net VB application.

Please goto: http://www.codeplex.com/GSALib to download the updates.

The Weather OneBox allows the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini to retrieve real-time weather data from Google.com. This ASP.NET web application was developed as a result of MC+A’s participating in the Google Enterprise Professional Program and is now freely available and includes the Apache 2.0 Open Source License.

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I’m happy to annouce that MC+A will be bundling in the GSS with any purchase of a Google mini with us(A $650 value!!!). That will include support for the GSS while the mini is supported.

If you are interested, complete the contact us form and we’ll get in touch with you.

The following features have been added:

• Multiple Start Ulrs (so it can support more then one sharepoint instance)
• All configuration settings accessible from the administrative interface

More to come shortly!!!!