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31% (not 4%) use RSS
Slashdot has got itself into some sort of frenzy about the number of RSS users, referring to an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/01/2006
Happy New Year
As this post automagically goes live 01/01/2006 12:00 AM PST, and 2005 turns into 2006 in Seattle /...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/01/2006
My 2006 predictions
Right, enough cataloging of everyone else's 2006 predictions...with about 4 hours to go before the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/31/2005
Unzen again...
For Christmas I bought myself a Zen Microphoto (well, technically I received it as present). At...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/31/2005
Long Tails and Zipfian distribution
Chris Anderson has posted on the relation between the Long Tail and the Zipfian distribution. It...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/31/2005
Who would you have for dinner?
Erid Dolecki asks: "If you could choose two people to have dinner with, each on their own on...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/31/2005
Dave Winer is up to something new for 2006
Via Kevin I heard that Dave Winer is up to something new for 2006...OPML at the heart of it is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/29/2005
Stars of CCTV?
The Stars of CCTV? "When the Austrian government passed a law this year allowing police to install...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/29/2005
'This appeared to be some kind of sealed fish or meat product, certainly not a state-of-the-art MP3 player.'
"This appeared to be some kind of sealed fish or meat product, certainly not a state-of-the-art MP3...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/29/2005
Microsoft's Social Computing Group
Bernarn Moon writes up an interview he had with Lili Chen, Microsoft's Social Computing Group group...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/28/2005
Microsoft in 2005
Beta News has a good review of 2005 from a Microsoft perspective - it reminds me of how much has...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/28/2005
'Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?'
"Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" -- Thomas Hesse,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/27/2005
Podcast feedback
David Swedlow has posted his reaction to a couple of podcasts he's been listening to that Joshua and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/27/2005
How much information?
I love this time of year. It gives me chance to get through some of books I've been been meaning to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/26/2005
the meaning of five nines
Phil Wainewright provides a reminder of what all these nines mean: 99.5% — 43.76 hours (an entire...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/24/2005
Wonderful Writeable Web
Bob Wyman on Tim Berners-Lee's ('TBL' - father of the Wonderful, Writeable Web) first blog post:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/23/2005
my Flickr network
My Flickr network seen through Flickr Graph.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/23/2005
RSS Aggregation in Outlook 12
Michael Affronti, Microsoft's Outlook program manager: "RSS Aggregation in Outlook is aimed at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/23/2005
Pro-am revolution
I met up with some interesting people last night in London. I did a quick straw poll and asked what...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2005
my tag cloud
Here's my tag cloud, ripped from my Technorati profile page. API... Attention... attention.xml......
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2005
Trended search data
Google's Yu Chen has posted info about how see you can view your trended Google search data: "To use...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2005
Don't talk and drive
Don't talk and drive. Well, don't talk about stuff that's hard to talk about, that's the message...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2005
the Del.icio.us Lesson
Joshua Porter is continuing the Structured Blogging (SB) conversation with Joe Reger. In thinking...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2005
I've become predictable
I've become predictable. At least that's what Paul Montgomery says - he's laid out his 2006...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2005
visualizing conversations
Anjo Anjewierden has analyzed some interelated blogs posts and drawn up the data - the visualization...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2005
OPML, the Attention lense
James Corbett: "...by sharing an OPML based Reading List Piaras would be providing an "attention...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2005
Musical Attention
Ed Batista of the AttentionTrust: "Last.fm is one of my favorite "attention data" use cases. After...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2005
Why I'm not missing London...
Why I'm not missing London...tube hell.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2005
Web services 101 - REST vs SOAP (or 'Simple' vs. 'Complex')
Richard MacManus outlines the difference between REST and SOAP Web Services. Bottom line: one is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2005
Outsourcing life decisions
Back in June I asked my blog readers to help me decide what to eat one night...I was stuck, not sure...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2005
Zen
I'm off to catch a plane soon. Long-haul flight, so need something to do. Instead of lugging CDs...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/19/2005
What is a modern marketer?
What is a modern marketer? Riya has a modern marketer called Tara Hunt. Her official title is Online...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/19/2005
Blogware interop scenarios
Here are the scenarios I care about when it comes to blogware interop: Background (these are...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/19/2005
Well, it is time for a change for me.
Well, it is time for a change for me. On January 16th I'll be starting my new job (moving outside of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2005
MIX 06
Gerardo Dada points out a new Microsoft event taking place in Las Vegas, MIX 06: "Microsoft is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2005
Structured Blogging podcast Part 2
Joshua has posted the second part of the Structured Blogging podcast with Marc Canter and Joe Reger....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2005
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is now blogging
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is now blogging. Via Justin Thorp.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2005
Time names Gateses, Bono 'Persons of 2005'
Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” along with Irish...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2005
My memecloud (of old)
I found this sitting in my archive somewhere. It's a sketch I drew up in August 2002 and published...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/17/2005
10 tips for dating a geek
Emily Hambridge has advice for those wanting to date a geek. My favourite: \5. If you love him you...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/17/2005
My top 20 web moments of 2005
Richard MacManus continues the end of year wrap-ups with his Top 10 Web 2.0 Moments. In a nutshell:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/17/2005
Ray Ozzie: 'the platform of the Internet really is the data'
ACM Queue has published an interview with Microsoft's CTO Ray Ozzie. Worth a read. "WK Tim O’Reilly,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2005
IE RSS icon - 'we'll follow Mozilla'
The Microsoft RSS team has an update on the RSS icon to be used in future versions of IE. How they...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2005
Darknets vs. Lightnet
Jason Boog interviewed J.D. Lasica and Lucas Gonze last week for his Darknets vs. Lightnet piece in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/14/2005