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Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2005
Steve Rubel BW picture caption competition
OK, Friday silliness starts here. Steve Rubel is featured in an article of the current edition of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/22/2005
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Virtualize Linux
The Microsoft Press Pass site has the transcript of the keynote here, and you can see the video...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/21/2005
What would Vint Cerf want to see in a documentary about Doug Engelbart?
Check out this interview with Vint Cerf describing what he'd want to see in a documentary about Doug...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/20/2005
NY Times: their RSS growth on the exponential
SilliconValleyWatcher comments on a The NY Times press release claiming a 342% annual increase in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2005
John Cleese introduces The Institute for Backup Trauma
John Cleese introduces The Institute for Backup Trauma. (Via Adrants.)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2005
Ourmedia vs. Google Video Upload
J.D.Lasica pitches Ourmedia's differentiators: "On Friday afternoon, I uploaded my first video to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2005
'the Internet, the one place where you can flame someone about their spelling, using improper grammar.'
Love this thread: MSN Messenger on the PSP. ace11: "OMFG Finaly MSN Messenger on the PSP wipout pure...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/19/2005
Scoble keeps his knob in check.
Robert Scoble makes it clear that until there are more Longhorn bits to play with, he'll be keeping...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/15/2005
Privacy and Pizza.
Frank points to this Pizza CRM flash movie created by the American Civil Liberties Union. "You want...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/15/2005
Acid2: makers of Web browsers and Web design tools on notice
I've mentioned Acid2 before, but there is actually something to test against now (plus a detailed...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2005
Google Video hosts broadband user content, free.
Funny...I was talking with Raymond Chen and Betsy Aoki last night about how free hosting of media...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/13/2005
Open-source alternative to Visual Studio Team System...
Open-source alternative to Visual Studio Team System...(Via Microsoft Watch) eWeek: "The project,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/12/2005
This is broken: Chopsticks instructions
This is broken: Chopsticks instructions "Need I say more?"
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/12/2005
Google Local goes Mobile
Search Engine Watch: Google Debuts Local Mobile: "The new service, available now at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/12/2005
Xbox2, Microsoft and MTV, why stop there?
Microsoft Monitor: "...Microsoft and MTV, why stop there? How about incorporating Xbox 2 into the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/11/2005
How should the relationships between tags be defined, and by whom?
IT Conversations has an audio recording of Clay Shirky's entertaining and thought provoking...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/10/2005
Area 51 on Google Maps Satellite
Area 51 on Google Maps Satellite... 'If you switch back to 'map' mode there is absolutely nothing on...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/08/2005
Blogging for the masses
Microsoft Monitor: "While highly anecdotal, my 10-year-old daughter is an interesting case study of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/08/2005
How do you pronounce 'Memex'?
How do you pronounce 'Memex'. Is it 'mem ex', as in memory? Or 'meem ex' as in meme? I ask because...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/08/2005
MSDN Forums Beta now available
Customers continually tell us the most important online community feature is getting quick, accurate...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/08/2005
Microsoft without CFO, for the time being at least
The Register: "John Connors finally handed back his Microsoft ID badge last week, leaving the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/07/2005
Apple - watch out: the blogosphere is just about to bite.
I think this one is going to do the rounds, rapido. "Fed up with silence and rudeness from Apple...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/06/2005
Still plenty of journalists and editors not listening to the blogosphere
Yesterday I posted 'Don't believe the Podcast hype'. Seems there are still plenty of journalists and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/06/2005
Don't believe the Podcast hype
Many news sites and blogs have used the Pew soundbite from their latest research ' 6 million...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/05/2005
Blair drops ID Cards, calls for election
The Register reports the UK government is to drop its ID Card legislation due to the election being...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/05/2005
The Long Tail of conversation and relationships
Hold on...this shape looks familiar...is this the Long Tail of conversation and relationships? I...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/03/2005
A conversation mostly about Attention
Robert Scoble: "Listen in on the conversation Steve Gillmor and I have. I shot it on video and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/03/2005
Moore's Law at 40
Via ZDNet: "Forty years ago, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore wrote an article in Electronics Magazine...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/03/2005
monkeys would never write the entire works of Shakespeare using a Mac
Monkeys would never write the entire works of Shakespeare using a Mac. Well, that is the conclusion...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/01/2005
Searching RSS feeds: Feed24
I've been playing around with Feed24 and concluded it has great potential. Essentially Feed24 is a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/01/2005
Google IM?
I'm not sure about this one...I.T Vibe reports that Google has announed that they are to launch...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/01/2005
RSS on PSP
JD on MX: RSS on PSP: "RSS on PlayStation Portable: Remarkable level of hackery on this new box......
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/30/2005
And now for something completely off-topic...
And now for something completely off-topic, but amazing. I didn't know you could do this! (via...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/30/2005
RSS Feeds For Dummies - the book
Ellen Finkelstein pinged me to let me know that her book, Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/29/2005
The oncoming bandwidth explosion on the edge
Om Malik's blog has a guest coumn by Robert Young, (via Emergic.org) asks the question: 'What...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/29/2005
About Bill Gates' Think Week
If you've not heard about Bill Gates' Think Week, you should read today's WSJ article that gives you...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/28/2005
Does anyone know Don Novello's email?
I'm curious to see how effeciently the 'six degrees of separation' theory works over the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/28/2005
The 'N' in the new name stands for "not with media player".
BBC reports Microsoft has agreed to the European Commission's proposed name for a new version of its...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/28/2005
New Skype: import contacts from Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, MSN Messenger and more
ZDNet reports: "A new version of Skype Net phone software is now widely available. The latest...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2005
The Magical Morphing p18s4/ Bibliomeme / Book 123.5 Meme / Page 23 / whatever
Well this little baby crops up again... Here is a chronology I wrote up last year (I have no idea...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2005
RSS in Visual Studio
If you, really, really need to read and manage your RSS feeds within your IDE then this RSS Blog...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2005
Ourmedia.org and Brightcove: 2 sides of the broadband content coin
Ourmedia.org is a free media content hosting and delivery site....if you have got video, audio,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2005
Word add-in - a load of Bull
Using a Word add-in can be fun as well as useful. A fun example is Bullfighter, (found via Web Pages...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2005
JupiterResearch: RSS will not have a significant effect to e-mail marketing
According to DMNews, JupiterResearch claims RSS will not have a significant effect as a supplemental...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/21/2005