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The blog of Alex Barnett
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Nick Bradbury picks up on the RSS UI problem David Winer has pointed out: "Dave Winer proposes a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/12/2005
"Refresh of Internet Explorer inevitable"...Why? RSS of course...
I have absolutely nothing to do with the IE team (and have NO visiblity into their product plans),...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/12/2005
How to get a head in advertising
How to get a head in advertising. (sorry, I couldn't help myself).
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/11/2005
I like Blog TV, I love Xbox Media Centre Extender
Blog Television pointed me to short movie by Engadget showing how the Xbox Media Centre Extender...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/11/2005
I wonder what Kim Cameron makes of Light-Weight Digital Identity (LID)...
I wonder what Kim Cameron makes of Light-Weight Digital Identity (LID)... According to Johannes...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/08/2005
"Transformed from an Open Source advocate into a Microsoft Proponent"
"Transformed from an Open Source advocate into a Microsoft Proponent" Not my words, but Deven...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/07/2005
'Egg on face' if MS employees use Google 68% of the time?
Bobbie Johnson at the Guardian blog has picked up on the Slashdot article where the VisitorVille...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/06/2005
"Automatic assimilation is the essence"...Viva the mesh
IEEE Spectrum has number of articles on the winners and losers of 2005. Of note is a piece, 'Viva...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/05/2005
Interactive fridge magnets
A bit of fun to kick off the New Year - interactive fridge magnets in Flash. via Unreasonable Man.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/04/2005
Content ownership, fair use and attribution
There is a very lively debate between a blogger, Jason Calacanis and the CTO of Skweezer, a "Web...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/30/2004
Podcasting with Curry, BBC article
BBC News "Former MTV host Adam Curry explains why "podcasts" are rapidly filling people's music...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/30/2004
Enter the Grid
Mary Jo Foley has a 'scoop' at Microsoft Watch: "Microsoft is working on a skunk-works project that...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/30/2004
Marketers still don't get RSS
A survey of email marketers concludes that they still don't understand the potential of RSS as a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/29/2004
I love the smell of comment spam in the morning
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/29/2004
"the biggest technology trends are the ones no one predicts"
In a Seattle Times article, tech pundit Paul Andrews looks forward to 2005... "Year after year, the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/27/2004
Lenovo to move HQ to NY
New York Times reports that China's largest PC manufacturer Lenovo (which purchased I.B.M's PC...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/26/2004
Microsoft's CIO interviewed by ZDNet's Dan Farber (video)
Ron Markezich, CIO at Microsoft, is interviewed by ZDNet's Dan Farber. (Video, 22 minutes) Markezich...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/23/2004
Microsoft Bloggers Face Blog Spam Pinch
e-Week covers the misery. (The actual title of the article is 'Microsoft Bloggers Face Search Spam...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2004
Does Google Have Security Problems Like Microsoft?
Preston Gralla at O'Reilly asks 'Does Google Have Security Problems Like Microsoft?' "Why point the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/22/2004
EPIC 2014
via Slashdot... Just seen EPIC 2014, a beautifully created Flash movie by Robin Sloan describing a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2004
P2P Live TV - Cybersky
Via Darknet, Red Herring interviews MR Ciberski, founder of Cybersky TV. Cybersky promises to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/21/2004
Comment spamming - it's going to get worse.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/20/2004
Time to share my predictions for 2005
Time to share my predictions for 2005... allofmp3.com gets bigger (and adds an RSS feed) Podcasting...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/19/2004
Office vs Windows
Reuters just published a 'news' item,, more of an analysis than a news item...'Is Microsoft's Office...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/19/2004
Netcraft: Comment spamming taking its toll on MT
Netcraft has posted 'Hosts Disable Movable Type as Comment Spam Slows Servers'. "Comment spam...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2004
Newsgroups vs blogs
Dana VanDen Heuvel has been blogging the American Marketing Association's seminar on blogging in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2004
In-flight broadband approved by FCC
Ars technica reports that the FCC has approved in-flight broadband. "In 12 to 18 months, you will be...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2004
How to sink CD sales: add CD copy-lock technology
IMHO... Will adding copy-lock technology to CDs will help increase CD sales? Probably not. But some...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/16/2004
Yahoo! Video Search result examples
Steve Rubel informs us that Yahoo! has launched a Beta Video Search engine. "One notable enhancement...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/16/2004
"eBay will someday buy Oracle."
ZDNet's Between the Lines: "Well, the week may have started with the announcement that Oracle would...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/16/2004
Search: the size of the prize
Technology Review has an excellent in depth analysis on the Search market, 'What's Next for Google'...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2004
Blunkett resigns, but ID Cards move forward
David Blunkett has just resigned, but with the Tories stating they'll be backing the the ID Cards...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2004
Firefox's Share of Browser Market Grows 34 Percent in One Month
WebSideStory: "Firefox's Share of Browser Market Grows 34 Percent in One Month" "Firefox has made...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/14/2004
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89...in Flash
Nice, simple, flash animation... Via Antenna: "Anyhow, Dean Allen has put together a concise,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/14/2004
British BlogCasting - the new BBC?
Via John Howard (IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft UK): "...a blogcast is a mini webcast (certainly under...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/13/2004
MSN Desktop Search vs. Google Desktop Search
Forrester's Charlene Li provides a comparison of MSN and Google Desktop Search offerings. "Overall,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/13/2004
MSN Desktop Search goes Beta (officially)
MSN Desktop Search goes Beta, announced at MSN Search weblog... Can be downloaded at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/13/2004
Hacking Google Suggest
FeedDemon's Nick Bradbury spots Adam Stiles' post 'How Google Search Works'... "At its simplest,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/12/2004
More RSS measurement
Further to my earlier posts, RSS Metrics & Reporting and FeedBurner answers my RSS metrics...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/12/2004
Orange SPV C500 Smartphone wins UK award
Tech Digest Award for Indespensible Mobile "the winner was pretty obvious to all of us. The Orange...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2004
Internet2 speed record: 101 gigs per second
In case you missed it, here is the announcement by Caltech who hold the record second year running...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2004
Feedback on Feedback on Feedback
Thanks Chris, we're listening.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2004
Blocking RSS advertising - the newsreader developers' view
Nick Bradbury points to an article at kottke.org that includes interviews with developers of RSS...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2004
MSN launches blogware beta
I've played with the MSN Spaces beta and like it...particularly the photo album functionality.....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/02/2004
Geo-targeting, and the customer experience
I'm finding it really hard to find any decent online resources, research and best practices around...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/12/2004
Good idea - SMS message per bank card transaction
Via Adverblog: "Spanish bank Bankinter has launched an sms based service to inform people each time...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/12/2004
Microsoft's Kim Cameron outlines Infocard, new federated identity initiative
Via ZDNet 'Between the lines': "Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s architect for digital identity (including...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/07/2004
PR professionals: Wake up to the blogosphere!
Steve Rubel has pointed to a 4 part "State of the Blogoshpere" report by David Sifry of Technorati....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/23/2004