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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

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

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