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Does IT Matter? 'No!' - I mean 'Yes!'
Nicholas Carr shares his most recent thoughts regarding his 'Does IT Matter?' essay and book. Carr's...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/26/2005
The real top 10 tips for blogging anonymously
Tim Yang tells it how it is - the real top 10 tips for anonymous blogging: "As many of you know,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/25/2005
Clever, distributed, Web 2.0 marketing - powered by RSS
Noticed something this morning. Let me try to explain.... Mary Jo Foley (of Microsoft Watch) is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/24/2005
I'm doing this for therapy.
Apparently I'm writing this for therapy.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/23/2005
Microsoft., 30 years old (again)
Microsoft is celebrating its 30th anniversary at the company’s annual meeting today (sadly I'll not...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/23/2005
IE7, Vista and the RSS platform (podcast)
John Udell: "Yesterday I bumped into Amar Gandhi, a program manager on the IE7 team who is working...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2005
Jakob Nielsen interview
IT Conversations has uploaded a 17 min (mp3) interview with usability guru Jakob Nielsen.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/22/2005
If you've done any AJAX development, you'll find this one interesting
Channel 9 has a video interview with one of the inventors of DHTML, Scott's Isaacs: "...He is one of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005
RSS - more exponential trends
Andrew Lampert points out more RSS exponential trends: "TechCrunch is reporting on the recently...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005
Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Designers
My first 'real' interview was published yesterday, for Digital Web Magazine.My victim was Sarah...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005
Coffee machine hacks
You've heard of Virtual Earth hacks and Amazon hacks. Well, welcome to Coffee 2.0 and the Coffee...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/21/2005
Web 2.0 isn't about screenscraping
Dare Obasanjo: "Web 2.0 isn't about screenscraping. Turning the Web into an online platform isn't...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/20/2005
USB for your car
USB for you car. "Volkswagen, Europe's biggest automaker, is thus making the USB connection an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005
RSS / Longtail post - update
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. who wrote the original The Long Tail acticle, has...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005
the positive side of having a deaf left ear
Nick Bradbury created the application that has transformed my internet-use behaviour - FeedDemon...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005
Where to start with Amazon web services (AWS)
What is the Amazon Web Service (AWS)? From Amazon's AWS site (now rebranded Amazon E-Commerce...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2005
Bill Gates meets Napoleon Dynamite
Phil Richardson points to a video of the Bill Gates with Napoleon Dynamite in this spoof video from...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2005
Digital Image Suite 2006 free trial for download now
I have a personal copy of Digital Image Suite 2006 and use almost daily. It has a whole bunch of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/18/2005
My first and last day in LA (PDC)
Went to the PDC in LA yesterday as we had an internal meeting there. Flew over in the morning, had...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2005
RSS becomes a Pillar of Microsoft Strategy
Rok Hastrik, quoting Dan Gardner: "RSS has evidently become a strong pillar of Microsoft strategy....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2005
Xbox announces launch dates
Just heard from the BBC: "Microsoft has announced that its next generation Xbox 360 gaming console...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/15/2005
Google feed / blog search follows MSN, - avoids confusion
Poalo Valdermarin has noticed the Google feed crawler is pinging his blog (via Dave Winer) The user...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005
101 for RSS, Blogging and Podcasting,
Debbie Weil has a useful collection of links to noob content - 101s for Bloggers, Podcasters and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005
RSS. Outlook. Integrated.
Jupiter's Michael Gartnerberg: "RSS support in Office is nice. Not only does the system track RSS...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005
Atlas = Ajax
Microsoft's Atlas went live today. What is Atlas? Atlas = Ajax.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005
Gates on Google, MSN APIs and Web 2.0
The MSN Developer Center is now live (did I ever think I would actually utter those words! How...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2005
WinFX Developer Center is Live
WinFX Developer Center is Live.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005
Demographic API, getting to know my neighbours
Groovy Mother points to a cool Google Maps / Census data (200) remix created by AnalyGIS and SRC...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005
Flickr PDC Pic Pool
Flickr PDC Pic Pool Via Steve Butler.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005
10 reasons companies don't care about Accessibility
Christian Heilmann has written up a good piece at Digital Web Magazine on the reasons companies...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/13/2005
RSS will fuel at least one exponential-growth online start up
I have feeling I'm going to be pointing to the following blog a lot over the next few weeks.Anyway,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/12/2005
Oracle to buy Siebel
First I hear eBay has confrimed it is to buy Skype for 2.6bn. That's enough news for one day. Then I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/12/2005
eBay agrees to buy Skype, but why?
It was only a couple of weeks I wrote of Skype's need to 'get on with it': "ZDNet and WSJ are...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/12/2005
Legalities of RSS feeds syndication
Denise Howell interviews (mp3) Bob Wyman (CEO of PubSub) about the thorny subject of the legalities...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
Co-creation exercise
Johnnie Moore videos one of his co-creation sessions, this time in a pub somewhere in London: "James...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
Windows Vista UX Guidelines (preliminary) download
The Windows Vista UX Guidelines (preliminary) is available for download. "...a preliminary draft of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
The Search, by John Battelle
Just picked my copy of the The Search by John Battelle. Here's my review: it has a red and white...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
omg. Rainbow 6 Lockdown shipped and I completely forgot.
omg. Rainbow 6 Lockdown shipped to the stores this week and I completely forgot. It is now Sept 11....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
Virtual Earth at Where 2.0 - podcast
IT Conversations has uploaded an mp3 recording of the presentation Steve Lawler (GM for Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
MSN APIs - more details
MSN's Dare Obasanjo has collated more info on the MSN APIs (to be officially announced next week)....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
web services / APIs lists and directories for Web 2.0
I've come across a couple of links this week of lists and directories of Web 2.0-type web services /...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/11/2005
Virtual Earth launches hacks competition
Virtual Earth team is running a competition for the best Virtual Earth hack. Rules? Simple: coolest...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/10/2005
Structured data blogging screencast
Sctuctured blogging is taking many forms, but structured blogging needs structured data. To get...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/09/2005
Microsoft to enter Web 2.0
CNET has reported of Microsoft plans to open up the up the APIs for developers to build new, cool...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/09/2005
the Scoble Scoop of the year, an interview with Mr William Gates II (aka Billg, or Bill Gates) on Channel 9
OK, so I'll be the 204th Microsoft blogger in the last hour to point to the Scoble Scoop of the year...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/08/2005
My inane cricket posts
I'll refrain from cluttering this blog with my inane cricket posts. I'll use this one instead, (RSS...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/08/2005