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The blog of Alex Barnett
Microsoft speak
So, quite a few people have been raising the issue around the use of the word ‘so’ by...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/06/2004
MSDN Channel 9 - My favourite videos
MSDN's Channel 9 has a bunch of interviews with Microsoft peeps...I thought I'd share with you my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/06/2004
CIO Jury: Corporates get blogging bug
From Silicon.com. "While the phenomenon of web logs – or blogging – as it's more...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/04/2004
eBay serves 1 billion XML (read - Web services) queries per month
"As pointed out by Information week magazine, there are 50,000 developers signed up for Amazon Web...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/04/2004
Jonathan Schwartz: "Whoever owns Novell controls the OS on which IBM's future depends."
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: "Whoever owns Novell controls the OS on which IBM's future depends." (Via...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2004
Microsoft Rebooted
Todd Bishop at Seattle P-I reports on new book by Robert Slater - Microsoft Rebooted. "His...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2004
ASP.NET Forums 1.0 >> 2.0 = Community Server :: Forums
Rob Howard of Telligent Systems (and former caching guru from the ASP.NET team at Microsoft) and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/01/2004
Does a phone line count as Internet Access?
Do you think a phone line counts as Internet Access? No? Well, apparently some hotels think so...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/01/2004
No such thing as a disruptive technology
According to PC Magazine’s John Dvorak there is no such thing as a disruptive technology....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2004
Longhorn's new graphics architecture
"Longhorn's Avalon technology will rely heavily upon 3D graphics, not only in terms of performance,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2004
Remote Control Anarchy
"The 6 remote controls required for a simple home theater illustrate the problems caused by...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/28/2004
IM = Instant Knowledge
"To search for information, a user sends a question to his own referral agent, which broadcasts the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2004
Blog from 'down under'
Mark Baartse from Microsoft Australia has started his own blog at...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/21/2004
The Blog From Atlanta II
Since joining Microsoft 2 years ago I haven't had the fortune of attending a Bill Gates or Steve...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/17/2004
Microsoft's Rob Mensching to present at OSCON
If you've got advice, let him know - he's asking for it.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2004
52% of application developers use .NET
More at ITFactgs.biz.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2004
The Blog From Atlanta
“The Blog From Atlanta” is not the title of a new scary movie, but the title of my first...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/14/2004
Microsoft Does Flash RIGHT!
From David Bisset's Flex-MX blog: "This flash presentation "Your Potential. Our Passion." from...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/13/2004
Prince Charles: "Nanotech is going to be huge"
I think he missed the point.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/12/2004
What should Microsoft do with its $56 billion in cash?
At Seattle PI "Now, without further ado, it's on to the next poll, newly posted in the upper...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/12/2004
No jam tomorrow...adaptive cruise control?
From Future Now "This piece in The Economist points to a couple studies suggesting that adaptive...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/07/2004
Wi-Fi on trains
Wi-Fi on trains. Great. Now all I need is a large bag to carry 15 pre-charged batteries.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2004
MSDN Webcasts Weblog
MSDN Webcasts Weblog. Good idea.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2004
Facetop - F2F e-biz collaboration
Screen meets face at the Facetop. (Via infogargoyle)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2004
Fedex tracking via RSS
(via Geek News Central) Fedex tracking via RSS...sweet.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2004
Life Caching
(Via adrants) "TrendWatching has dubbed a new trend called Life Caching. Simply put, it's the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/06/2004
Google News In RSS
I subscribe. (via Lockergnome)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/01/2004
53.8% of IT Facts.biz blog headlines have '%' sign
(based on sample of 78 most recent posts on the IT Facts.biz blog)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2004
FeedBurner answers my RSS metrics question
I like metrics, I like data - I like feedback. I'd like to know, in detail, how my RSS feed is...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/26/2004
SuperNova live webcast - links to transcripts
(update: this is over now so am linking to FastCompany's Heath Row posted transcripts of most of the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/25/2004
Wireless nearly everywhere
I had a meeting at a hotel next to Munich airport yesterday and was reminded of how ubiquitous...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/25/2004
Test your knowledge of basic Web usability principles.
A quick, fun quiz to test your usability IQ, how did you do? Via GUUUI.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/25/2004
Buzzard loses in game of Chicken & Google Pidgeon Power
A buzzard lost a game of Chicken yesterday, the van won. "It took on more than it could chew," a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/18/2004
French football players failed a drugs test
It's just been reported that one of the French football players failed a drugs test after the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/18/2004
Cory Doctorow's talk @ Microsoft on DRM
Dan Gillmore points to a talk Cory Doctorow gave yesterday at Microsoft on DRM. Cory has posted the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/18/2004
Secure RSS
Came across a great resource while researching secure RSS in the context of private feeds...lots of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/18/2004
Napsterisation of Matter or “I downloaded this great phone yesterday”
It is an interesting, (though I’m sure no surprise to you) that the Teleporter as featured in...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/16/2004
RSS v Email Marketing Webcast
Webcast discussing Email v RSS marketing at the CAN SPAM Decisioncast is now over. Guests included...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/15/2004
Chip and PIN, don't panic!
At long last, the UK is modernising and launching the Chip and PIN system in the UK at the end of...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/15/2004
Virgin gives a helping hand
New online viral campaign from Virgin Mobile...you have to see this! (Via Adverblog)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/07/2004
Microsoft.com communities team @ Microsoft Watch
Olivier Ribet, Director of Microsoft Communities outlines some of the community-based work his team...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/06/2004
Describing Blogging as passé is definitely passé
The fact is blogging became passé years ago. So to now describe blogging as passé is so...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/05/2004
London voters' apathy, whatever...
Londoners get a chance to vote next week for a new mayor, but there are concerns that no one cares.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/05/2004
Nike blog
"Nick Denton (formally of Moreover and First Tuesday <in>fame) has launched a custom weblog...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/04/2004
Chicken Meats Burger
Reuters TV reports that the online ad campaign featuring a man dressed in a chicken suit (a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/04/2004
New Unix Migration Site
If you're researching into the migration of legacy UNIX systems and applications to the Microsoft...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/04/2004