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Experiments with Amazon S3 Storage
Some very cool experimentation going on with Amazon S3 Storage. Just check out filicio.us. Jeff must...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/24/2006
Video: InfoCard Explained
Charles Torre has posted up a very good Channel 9 video explaining InfoCard: "Ever wonder what...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/24/2006
One Big Conspiracy
According to Charlie Brooker, it's all one big attention conspiracy:"Install this driver. Now update...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/24/2006
SO yesterday
Linking is so yesterday.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/24/2006
Tagging behind-the-firewall. Questions.
Stowe Boyd points (via David Weinberger) to a discussion regarding the potential of tagging within...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/23/2006
Flashmob video - Bang!
Flashmob video. Just check it out. Via Smart Mobs.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2006
Steve Berkowitz to head MSN and Windows Live efforts
CNET article reports: "Microsoft said Friday it has hired Internet executive Steve Berkowitz to head...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/21/2006
Second Life on the Show on 10
Second Life was featured on yesterday's 'The Show On 10'. Via Dennis Hamilton: "the on10.net folk...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/20/2006
What would you do with 150 Mac minis?
I'm not a Mac owner, but I know plenty of them (I sued to be, many moons ago). If you like / love...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/20/2006
Microsoft Research guest lectures (videos)
Via Rich Hoeg I came across this online video library (a page of links) of Microsoft Research guest...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2006
Visual Studio Express...free!
Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for the Visual Studio Express product line has confirmed today...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2006
The Unifying Theory of Web 2.0
You know that feeling when something has been staring at you in the face and you don't realize it....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/18/2006
75,000 new blogs a day
Technorati's David Sifry reports the blogosphere is continuing its growth rate - doubling every six...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/17/2006
Tag-centric UI
Matt McAlister has put together his first screencast showing some of the various tag-centric...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/16/2006
Snail Mail
Mark has snail mail.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/15/2006
Object Orientated Machinery
Once in a while I see stuff that reminds me of the creative and ingenious nature of humans. This...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/15/2006
Social Search
Business Week has an article outlining some of the 'social search' developments underway at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2006
Reality Commercials...
By way of Steve Bowbrick, I came across Mark Cuban's idea: Reality Commercials. "I would make...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2006
Joshua. Dad. Cool!
Joshua - congrats!! She's beautiful. btw. i think i found a bug in your comments feature. keep it. i...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2006
GestureBank Recorder
Steve Gillmor provides some details on how the existing Attention Trust recorder (ATX) relates to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2006
10 Random Thoughts. #4 The Social Enterprise
10 Random Thoughts. #4. The Social Enterprise Jack: "How can my company take advantage of the social...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2006
10 Random Thoughts
10 Random Thoughts. #1. The Interview #2. Repetition engines #3. Worry #4. The Social Enterprise
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2006
Windows Live Academic Search (Beta)
Inside Microsoft: "This new offering from Live launches with over 6 million records indexed,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/12/2006
Niall Kennedy is joining Microsoft.
Best news I've heard in a while. Niall Kennedy is joining Microsoft. He's going to be helping the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/11/2006
'You can buy software, but you can’t buy community.'
Timothy O'Brien begins his analysis of the acquisition of JBoss by RedHat with a thought provoking...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/11/2006
VS Express - what do you want?
Our next version of Visual Studio (the next version of the product is known internally as 'Orcas')...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/10/2006
Information overload in 1848
Information overload in 1848: "In 1848 the New York businessman W.E. Dodge was already feeling the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/07/2006
Transparent desktop
First time I've seen this new transparent desktop wallpaper download. The amazing thing is that it...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/07/2006
Interview with Dr Flakenstein
John Battelle has an interesting interview with Gary Flake (A.K.A "Dr Flakenstein"), Technical...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/06/2006
Semantic web heads - 'More doing, Less theorizing'. Please.
The Guardian takes a look at where we are with Tim Berners-Lee's semantic web. Conclusion? Not very...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/06/2006
Animated conversation
What is this? Conversations visualized. This clip (.wmv) shows the pattern below in motion. "...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/06/2006
'myware' but without the 'my'?
I have to agree with Steve Gillmor on this: "All proprietary clouds of data obtained without the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/04/2006
RSS, microformats, Live Clipboards and Screencasts
Some great posting going on re: microformats / RSS / Live Clipboard. First to point out is Ray...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/03/2006
Beta or CTP?
Brad Abrams, a Group Program Manager at Microsoft, asks for feedback regarding customers' preference...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/03/2006
MSDN TV - Extending RSS with Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE)
A little while ago, Amyloo suggested that Microsoft has gone a bit quite on the RSS + SSE front. Amy...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/01/2006
RSS 101 screencast (en française)
Claire Ulrich has created a French voiceover version (.avi) of the my RSS 101 screencast. Bon...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/29/2006
RSS + SLE (real world) examples
Sean Lyndersay over on the IE team blog posted about the RSS Simple List Extensions (SLE) and how...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/28/2006
Geometry Wars - video nuts.
I've been playing Geometry Wars (Evolved) on my 360. It got to the point where I thought 'this is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/28/2006
I'm getting one of these.
Shawn reminded me of something I showed him this week. The t-shirt, that is. I'm ordering too.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/24/2006