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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