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The convergence of bloggers
Sounds fancy, don't it? Philip's getting a 'convergence' meme attack...so much so, he's looking for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2006
New Live.com Service: Street-Side (Preview)
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has more details plus screenshots: "Microsoft’s Live.com is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2006
Aussie tech bloggers - TalkTechBlogs
Frank Arrigo has been working on a cool little project Down Under. It's called TalkTechBlogs. "This...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2006
About my past
Kent had a bit of a surprise to find that he was related to Meryl Streep. So I tried to find out...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/26/2006
The Intelligent Designer speaks
One recent comment at this post of mine caught my eye, left by the 'Designer'. Anyway, it points to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/26/2006
Optimal OPML Browser
More cool OPML stuff. James Corbett and Adam Green have pointed out a new web-based OPML file...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/26/2006
Content 2.0, London (06.06.06) - I'll be there...
I interrupt my usual provisioning of blog fodder to let you know I'm going to be in London to take...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/24/2006
Safe Mashing
Philip Richardson, PM at the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team has a thought provoking post on Mashups and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/23/2006
Response to the Attention Problem
Joshua Porter gave a talk recently 'Web 2.0 - Leveraging the Network'. He has published the slide...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/23/2006
Highly targeted Ajax advertising
Context is everything. - Tags: Web 2.0, Ajax, Advertising
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/22/2006
Just when I thought it was safe not to blog about OPML
Just when I thought it was safe not to blog about OPML and RSS, along comes Technorati to spoil my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/22/2006
REST vs. SOAP
Don Box: "Someone recently asked me about how to handle an internal product debate around REST vs....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/21/2006
Podcast charging $ monkey *#$!f%! news
I suppose it was a no-brainer to predict that the Ricky Gervais podcast show was going to be a hit....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/21/2006
C# interview questions
Mark Wagner has collated some interview questions (with answers) you might be asked if you were...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/21/2006
Scotty's ashes to go orbital
Star Trek's Scotty (actually, actor James Doohan) will have his ashes rocketed to space. He's joined...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/20/2006
Interview: 'Microsoft Exec Talks IE7, RSS'
BetaNews has an interview with Gary Schare, Director of IE Product Management. Topics discussed...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/20/2006
FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2.0 introduces ability to import your feeds from the Windows Common Feed List
Long headline, I know - but I couldn't think of anything else. FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2.0 introduces...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/16/2006
Beginning of the Attention Engine race
Wow, I missed this the first time around... Megite is going letting me do what I've been asking...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/14/2006
Reading Lists (OPML) podcast: Danny Ayers and Adam Green
Last year Dave Winer started to push the idea of Reading Lists for RSS. More recently, the idea of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/12/2006
My Del.icio.us bookmarks in my RSS feed
I've spliced my Del.icio.us bookmarks into my Feedburner generated RSS feed. If it annoys you, let...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/11/2006
The real 'meme' trackers are yet to be invented
The word 'memetracking' or ('meme tracker') has been used to describe services such as Memeorandum,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2006
More Xbox team bloggers
Xbox's Major Nelson has links to more Xbox team bloggers: "When I started this blog over two years...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2006
More on the Windows RSS Platform
Last week, the Microsoft RSS team published Windows RSS Platform API documentation - note: is draft...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2006
(RSS + SSE) + OPML + Reading lists = Attention?
Steve Rubel has nice idea: "What I would love to see in the coming months is a tool that uses SSE...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/09/2006
Ajax and Virtual Earth tutorial
The Virtual Earth blog has posted some info on the first of a three part tutorial on Ajax and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2006
Mash Me Up
When I heard this, I thought they were singing ‘Mash Me Up’. Selective hearing I suppose… Via the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006
State of the Attention Problem
Technorati's David Sifry has posted the latest of his regular updates providing a bunch of stats and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006
My brand spanking new OPML blog
I've finally got my shiny new OPML blog up and running. It's powered using Dave Winer's OPML Editor....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006
The good guys lose
William, our four year son, summed up the dire result. "The good guys lose. The enemy wins."...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/05/2006
Go Seahawks!!!
er, when in Rome and all that...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/05/2006
Ajax Scribble application with ASP.NET Atlas
The Code Project has a good tutorial showing how to create an Ajax Scribble application with ASP.NET...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2006
Welcome visitors
This last rainy week in Redmond has been sunnied by a bunch of welcome visitors. Some were were old...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2006
Skype chats as RSS feeds
I love this. Jaanus, a Skype employee, listened to the Attention podcast I recorded with Nick...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/04/2006
Solving Tag-Hell
Backup Brain recently highlighted one of the problems with the tagosphere - the 'which tag do I use'...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/03/2006
There are 54,993,666,708,469,390,869,140,625 ways to construct a 10-machine-instruction program
Chris Jackson is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services. He doesn't blog that much, but when he...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/02/2006
Microsoft Mashup videos
John Musser over at Programmable Web has a bunch of links to some developer-focused videos covering...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/02/2006
new Web 2.0 Journal site
Dion Hinchcliffe, the Editor-in-Chief of the brand new Web 2.0 Journal site has posted his launch...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/02/2006
Windows RSS Platform = RSS everywhere
The IE blog posted some interesting RSS / Windows info this morning: "You might have seen or read...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/01/2006
How many feeds do you subscribe to?
How many RSS feeds do people subscribe to? This is one of the questions Wolfgang Bartelme asked his...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/01/2006
Even I think this is a little extreme...
Even I think this is a little extreme... "When I found out my wife was pregnant, I immediately set...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/31/2006
Atomic MSDN blogs
Tim, it's great you noticed that the MSDN blogs gen Atom 1.0 as well as RSS 2.0 feeds, but...this...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/31/2006
4 plugs in one post - beat that.
My wife was given a business card by Shel Israel at the Naked Conversations party last week, and she...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/31/2006
Well, here goes for the second time around
Bubble 2.0 - the signs are there if you look for them. Remember First Tuesday? I never attended, but...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/30/2006