Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
A "Wonder Cabinet" of Web 2.0 Curiosities
Opportunistic Geeks On the Rocks
After a solid run of opportunistic geek luck, our adventure hit the skids in Houston. Rob and I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/06/2005
On the Road with Opportunistic Geeks
Rob and I hit the road at 6:45AM in Redmond, WA, en route to TechEd Orlando. Around 8:00AM, we...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/05/2005
Deleting User Samples on GotDotNet
User Samples is the most popular GotDotNet feature. Over the last few months, I've received emails...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/03/2005
Volksonomy: tags for the people
In the context of social software applications like blogs, there are two kinds of tags:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2005
A Brief [and Subjective] History of Corporate Blogging at Microsoft
My teammate Betsy, the czarina of blog, will be speaking at TechEd 2005 in Amsterdam about...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/20/2005
TechEd 2005: I'll be There and I'll be There
Brian Valentine, VP of Microsoft's Windows Division, made a rip roaringly funny video for the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/12/2005
Enterprise Performance Tools Testing Wiki
As with any Wiki, this is an experiment in content and time:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/27/2005
Snippet Sharing Plug-in for Visual Studio .NET
This just came through as a resource submission on Gotdotnet.com. Very cool idea. CodeXchange VS.NET...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/18/2005
Wiki Patterns and the Value of Visualization
Here's my position paper (below) for the upcoming Social Computing Symposium that the fine folks in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/12/2005
Working with Jim Newkirk
Jim Newkirk and I joined the Gotdotnet team at the roughly the same time, a couple of months ago,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/10/2005
Generating Ad Revenue in the Age of Syndication: Corante.com and Munincipal Wi-Fi at the Crossroads
The World Wide Web is a library. Internet-ready devices continue to plummet in price. Access to the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/10/2005
Open Source Alternative to Team System
One step taken and a thousand miles to go... Jason Bentley has created a new workspace on Gotdotnet...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/05/2005
A New VSS Web Interface
This looks interesting: "SSWI is a Microsoft Visual Source Safe web interface that allows you to use...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/30/2005
Raindrop: Blogroll This
Raindrop is the new group blog (RSS, OPML - blogrolled) of the Social Computing Group in Microsoft...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/02/2005
'Change Source Control' Menu Disappears in Visual Studio
A reader recently emailed me the following issue/question: "I recently installed the VS 2005...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/21/2005
SourceGear Developing Linux/Solaris/MacOS client for Team Foundation
I'm a little late to print with this announcement but it's just too darn intriguing to not share....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/16/2005
Will Blogs Replace Newspapers?
[Jason Salas]"Newspapers are a dying medium. They have been for the last several years, and it's...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/16/2005
WikiWiki: The Power of Collaborative Content Development
Jon Udel has posted a fascinating multimedia demonstration of the power of collaborative editing and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/11/2005
NYTimes on WikiNews
The New York Times, whose login-to-read model drives me to distraction, posted a thought-provoking...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/11/2005
The Era of Transparency: WikiNews Wants You
Joi Ito blogs about WikiNews.org (EN | DEU | JPN? | FR | SE | RU | NL) today, a nascent project...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/07/2005
Eric Sink's Tenets of Transparency
In his latest article for MSDN, Tenets of Transparency, Eric Sink continues his "non-legendary"...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2005
Building Anticipatory Software
Recently, I have devoted many cycles to the question, 'What is 'Personalized Software'? In Douglas...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/31/2005
Clippool is Cool. But is it Safe?
Bryant Likes posts a pointer to a multi-computer utility that I have been using with great...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/24/2005
Word of the Day: Recherché
Last November, I solicited suggestions for good books for the beach. Thanks for all the great ideas!...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/22/2005
The Ten Tenets of Personalization for Social Software Development (link to article)
A beginning...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/19/2005
The Ten Tenets of Personalization for Social Software Development
The Internet is a museum that is filled with many wonderful works of art, all of which you can...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/19/2005
Drool Tool, Smartphone, or Status Symbol for Geeks
At the far end of a long table, safely outside Scoble's omnivourous information net, I mused aloud,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/17/2005
Dream Job #2
Over the last two or three years, my passion for designing and documenting collaborative development...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/13/2005
Happy, Hansa, and Sleepy in Seattle
One of the most generous Microsoft benefits is paternity/maternity leave: 4 fully-paid weeks for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/05/2005
Books for the Beach -- Any Suggestions?
I'll be out of the office, out of state, and off the grid for the next six weeks (paternity leave +...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/12/2004
RSS Notifications and Email Alerts in Visual Studio Team System?
John Lawrence wants to know what kind of support for event notifications you would like to see in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/05/2004
VSS Analyze Script #4
Okay, I give in. Who is behind the new DevelopmentNow blog?Whoever it is, they just posted a VSS...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/05/2004
VSS vs. Team Foundation Version Control | Checkout Behavior
"Unexpected Get" was the subject of a very interesting email thread that passed through my Outlook...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/04/2004
I Voted
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/02/2004
Full-text Book Searches: My Library vs. A9.com
As of last night, I am one of the four people on Earth for whom Google has lost its mojo. It's old...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/29/2004
Hermiston's Li'l Hotspot
[Richard Hundhausen] "Read this in Mobile PC magazine, then did my own research. Turns out that...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/27/2004
Video of an Actual Bug Triage at Microsoft
Have you ever wanted to know how product bugs (like the ones you report using Ladybug) get triaged...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/26/2004
Team Foundation vs. SourceSafe | Cloaking
Klingons and Romulans everywhere will bristle with pride when they learn that cloaking has survived...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/25/2004
San Francisco One-Ups Redmond
The citywide Wi-Fi meme catapulted to another level yesterday when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/22/2004
High Speed Wireless Internet in Redmond
Tonight, the Redmond City Council voted unanimously to approve my proposal to support the provision...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/20/2004
tf.exe Rename==tf.exe Move in Visual Studio Team Foundation
When you use the Team Foundation tf rename command to rename a source-controlled file in your local...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/19/2004