Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer
A "Wonder Cabinet" of Web 2.0 Curiosities
Tagspace: Social Bookmarking for the Whole Web...from Microsoft
I am tickled pink 'n honored to announce the third release of Microsoft Tagspace*, a social...
Date: 06/05/2007
Trust Microsoft with Claimspace (my response pending)
Ted Haeger, aka ReverendTed of Bungee Labs (purveyors of the most kill-killski development toolkit...
Date: 05/23/2007
Claimspace, a Long Tail Recognition System
Robert Rebholz is not only my boss*, he is also my muse, ideological sparring partner, alter ego,...
Date: 05/17/2007
Should "Membership Stores" Be Permitted in Redmond's Manufacturing Park Zone?
In coordination with Taylor Development, which among other things owns an undeveloped 60 acre parcel...
Date: 05/03/2007
REST2SQL in a Jiffy, with Tagspace for Spice
A few months ago, Alex Barnett excitedly told me about a project he was working on with Pablo...
Date: 05/02/2007
Inspirational Video: Code Monkey
Are you a code monkey? Do you dress like a code monkey? Do you dance like a code monkey?
Date: 04/27/2007
xClaims and Microformats
In response to my penultipate post, reader "David" (the other David?) xClaims: "Um, I don't get it -...
Date: 04/20/2007
Introducing Microsoft Tagspace
Tagspace* is a social bookmarking service for software professionals** that encourages sound sleep...
Date: 04/17/2007
Microformats are like RFID tags for the Web
Today, I took a much needed break to attend a Microsoft Research talk by Paul Dietz, who is a...
Date: 04/12/2007
Web Access for Visual Studio Team System
Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, Brian Harry follows up on his recent announcement about...
Date: 04/02/2007
Alexbarn Leaves Microsoft...ARGH!
With a farewell quote from the greatest American writer of all time, my friend, neighbor, and...
Date: 03/31/2007
Big in Japan
Recently, I attended the Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) Attendee Party (thanks, Sean!) at...
Date: 03/29/2007
Passing the Community Torch: In Search of a New Chief Executive in Redmond
In the wake of a recent announcement by Redmond Mayor Rosemarie Ives that she will not seek another...
Date: 03/08/2007
Web2.0verload?
Date: 03/07/2007
Dinner Party Retrospective -- Blaukraut and Saffron Cream
My holiday dinner party went pretty well, by all accounts. Dinner was a little late in coming due to...
Date: 12/26/2006
Korby's 2006 Holiday Dinner Party
For the first time in a couple of years, I've decided to host a holiday dinner party for a few of my...
Date: 12/21/2006
Not receiving incoming calls on Your Cingular SmartPhone?
All week long, I have received no incoming calls or voicemails on my Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone, on...
Date: 12/08/2006
Friend-o-Gen, for just $.99/month
Although they have "temporarily shut down their service", for legal reasons, you need look no...
Date: 12/04/2006
Steve Ballmer a Bell Ringer for Christmas?
I can imagine Microsoft's venerable CEO, Steve Ballmer, ringing bells for the Salvation Army in...
Date: 11/29/2006
Zune: a social plaything
You can get your Zune tomorrow, November 13, at one of 30,000 retail outlets across North America or...
Date: 11/13/2006
Event: Overlake Neighborhood Planning Open House
If you live or work in Overlake and you want to help define how it gets developed over the next 20...
Date: 11/09/2006
"Tagspace" Beta
AJAX vs. Atlas ASP.NET Atlas ATOM C# C++ CodePlex coolgadgets database Dave Morehouse FoxPro Huong...
Date: 11/08/2006
Lightweight Blogging Using Social Bookmarking Services
A rhetorical question for those of you who share my interest in social computing: Is social...
Date: 11/03/2006
Establishing the Unconference Pattern: Seattle MindCamp 3.0
November 11-12, 2006 12pm-12pm — Seattle MindCamp 3.0— at West Seattle [This hCalendar event brought...
Date: 10/19/2006
Reputation: "just don't do it at first"
I've been catching up on Life with Alacrity (RSS), a blog by Christopher Allen that focuses on the...
Date: 09/29/2006
Silly_Rabbit, CEOs Don't Wear Bunny Costumes
I rolled on the floor laughing (ROFL'd) when I saw this picture. For whatever reason, correlating...
Date: 09/26/2006
Is Tagware a "natural Recommendation Network?"
In his recent post, The Long Tail of Tags, my compadre Alex Barnett contends that, "Looking at the...
Date: 09/19/2006
@#$%^! Link Spammers
Francesco is shutting down URL123, as a free service. :-( "Dear Member, First I would like to thank...
Date: 09/08/2006
CodePlex In the News
UNO: This just in: CodePlex on Channel9 DOS: When we first launched CodePlex, one of our most...
Date: 08/17/2006
Apple Throws Discussion Boards to the Snakes
Where has Apple been since the second invasion of Iraq??? Recently, Apple decided to jettison its...
Date: 08/04/2006
Extro Version
Who do you listen to? Who do you answer to? Your boss or your boss' boss? Dave Morehouse, my friend...
Date: 08/02/2006
ProfileApproval: Automated Propriety Policing for Online Dating Sites
"Charlene" is a 26 year old "goofy goddess" with a terrific body and 2 Siamese kittens. Her user...
Date: 07/27/2006
Who Stole Rob Caron?
Like tens of thousands of other people, I am an avid and daily reader of my good friend Rob Caron's...
Date: 07/26/2006
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server via Eclipse? Runs on UNIX, Mac, or Linux?
Are you excited about the potential benefits of migrating from your existing source control and bug...
Date: 07/26/2006
Capitalizing on Email Exhaustion
In my last post, I lamented email overload and its effects upon me and presumably, many of my...
Date: 07/25/2006
Flickr .NET Mashups
From the dean, Alex Barnett (RSS): "MSDN's Coding4Fun has a good intro article on playing with the...
Date: 07/21/2006
Creating Self-governing Online Communities
In general, I disdain the casual manner in which many people throw around the word "community". As a...
Date: 07/20/2006
Jumping Ship to the MS Serendipity
Over the past few weeks, it has become increasingly apparent that CodePlex is pointed in the right...
Date: 07/17/2006
Cmd Shell for Visual Studio: Released on CodePlex
This project is an awesome addition to the growing list of shared source software on CodePlex.com....
Date: 07/17/2006
Qunu: an Open Source Approach to Realtime Q&A
Enabling people to convene and interact online in the same rich ways they can offline is the holy...
Date: 07/17/2006
CodePlex Videos on Port 25
Interested in CodePlex? Subscribe to the CodePlex tag on Port 25. As of the date of this post there...
Date: 07/14/2006
Social Engineering in Open Source Projects
A prospective CodePlex project coordinator recently asked me an intriguing question, "Have you seen...
Date: 07/10/2006