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May 2004 - Posts

It's the Feed Standard Stupid

The quicker the marketing industry can develop standard usage and reporting metrics around RSS (and other similar xml feed standards), the better. The current situation, where online 'media properties' owners (including portals, publishers & bloggers) Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 30, 2004 8:51 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Metcalfe: Two Trillion Reasons that I.T. Matters

Via Slashdot , I just read Bob Metcalfe's ( Mr Ethernet ) June 2004 piece ripping Carr's Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” to shreds. Here are some of the highlights of Meclafe's rebuttal: "I asked how much IT matters of Frank Gens, Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:12 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2

If you: manage a website manage a company to manage / develop your website for you are involved in building, coding, design, QAing, PMing, architecting, anythinging <?> websites write, maintain website id / UI guidelines & code are responsible Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:45 AM by alexbarn | 12 Comments

Wheelie Mobile Wi-fi

" I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream." Via BBC Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:52 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Nick Carr's "Does IT Matter?"

Via Future Now : I'm off to the bookshop.... Nick Carr's "Does IT Matter?" As nearly everyone knows, in November 2002, Harvard Business Review published an article by executive editor Nicholas Carr entitled "IT Doesn't Matter." The piece immediately became Read More...
Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 6:48 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Not Bill Gates' blog

Scobleizer got me thinking...and he is right...OK, so I had this crazy idea...until we've got an RSS feed on Bill Gates' speech page , I'll post the speeches via RSS and Blog , so you can subscribe to my RSS feed until then. I'll try to keep this updated Read More...
Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 1:17 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Remarks by Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO Summit 2004, May 20, 2004

Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation Microsoft CEO Summit 2004 Redmond, Washington May 20, 2004, Microsoft.com version here BILL GATES: Well, good morning. It's fun for me every year to kind of give an update Read More...
Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 1:09 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Federated Identity, one (ws-standard) step closer to reality

Silicon.com article, Michael Stephenson, lead program manager for Windows Server 2003: "We are showing how a user at one site might log on to a portal and then they can enter a purchase order at another location without having to sign on again ," The Read More...
Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 8:30 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

UK student developers...this is for you

Via Caroline Phillips , (from Developer & Platform Group, Microsoft UK) "this is for all of you studying a computing-science-related undergraduate or postgraduate degree at a university in the UK. IF you are extremely passionate about technology, Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:24 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

n-tier mushroom crops up

An n-tier (actually, three-tiered) mushroom as cropped up in the Congo, apparently stunning experts. It is massive: measuring yards across...Pierre 'Agaricus' Babota, a fungi expert who just happened to be in the area at the time, was clearly shaken, Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:40 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Not only does Amsterdam have culture, but it has Tech-Ed Europe 2004 too...

Well, I'm not at Tech-Ed today, because I'm not in the US of A...but in the good old UK of E(urope), which is quite a bit closer to Amsterdam than San Diego...so if Amsterdam doesn't sound like too much of drag for you (apparently there is a rich history Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:16 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Plucked off...

I tried out the new Pluck RSS reader for IE...at first I was excited - new, nice and juicy interface, smart features...you know the feeling... As soon as the install completed you could tell it had pedigree - (Via: Chris Pirillo /Lockergnome ): “Pluck Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:12 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Email v RSS matrix reloaded

Have updated the Email v RSS matrix today to incorporate Jacob Nielsen's </gulp>, Stuart Watson's and EricShceid 's input. Thanks to Steve Rubel & Scobleizer for picking this up originally...(also had a request to have this chart included in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:11 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

The Nielsen Treatment

Brilliant and self-referential. A single page on Jacob Nielsen's Useit.com site endures a thorough usability, design, copy, creative & technical review ... Via Theil <thanks!> Read More...
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 5:32 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

'efficacy'

Via Datagridgirl Good to see ' efficacy ' made the cut in Tech-Ed Bingo . Read More...
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 12:44 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Oxfam is launching a music download service

Nice idea...Via BBC : "The charity is backing the Big Noise Music website , which launches on Wednesday and will offer 300,000 songs to download. " "We love a big noise! Rock on!" The Darkness "Paying to download from BigNoiseMusic.com seems like a good Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 8:09 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

have you come across any figures/evidence around how many users are unsubscribing/switching from email to RSS/atom feeds?

Have you come across any figures/evidence around how many users are unsubscribing/switching from email to RSS/atom feeds? If so, please let me know! Thanks. Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:31 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Why not have Billg and Steveb's speech pages RSS'd?

Great idea from Datagridgirl : Why not have Billg and Steveb's speech pages RSS'd? (I've put in a request internally...consider these speeches as super-blogs...!) Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 22, 2004 5:10 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Article on UI/UX management of Microsoft.com

(via Scott and Tim ) "This month’s article describes how a common presentation framework—including XML-based design templates, centralized control of common user interface (UI) elements, and a custom Web handler and rendering engine built Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 22, 2004 4:12 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Email v RSS, let us move on...

Since my earlier post on RSS in relation to email marketing, I've come across many related articles...I thought I'd point to some of these...bottom line is that Email as a sales driver has had dramatic success over the years...the debate should move away Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 22, 2004 3:24 PM by alexbarn | 89 Comments

BillG on RSS and Blogs

BBC picks up on Bill Gate's reference to blogging and RSS at the Microsoft CEO Summit. A full transcript of the speech is here . Read More...
Posted Friday, May 21, 2004 5:49 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

I want a bendy laptop

or a bendy Smartphone. Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:37 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

the early bird

Heard a phrase new to me this week... ''the early bird might catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese'' . Also heard other some 'interesting' phraseology (I should point out that I did not hear the following nuggets in a silicon-chip design Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:32 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning

Quick update on this . I sent a mail to banned@slashdot.org on Thursday asking to be 'unbanned'. No reply yet but the ban does seem to have been lifted...I'm getting the feed now. Note to Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon: Agree my orginal posting title is misleading Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:01 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

I am wowed by Map24

Best thing I've seen on the net for a while - Map24 won the 'Technical Achievement' category in the Webby Awards 2004 ....if you haven't played, then play: Map24: US version - UK version - Belgian version - German version - Danish version - Dutch version Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:27 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

New Microsoft UK homepage

I’m delighted to announce that we have launched the new Microsoft UK homepage . 98% of visitors to our UK website view the UK homepage. This new homepage is a step in enabling and encouraging customers to manage their relationship with Microsoft: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:44 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

Chronology & anatomy of Bibliomeme / Book Meme / Page 23 Meme

http://www.livejournal.com/users/helloyarn/2165.html?view=10357#t10357 (7th April 2004) First specific reference to this specific meme (no meme name given although it transpires that in fact is a variant on a previous similar meme, see below). http://www.livejournal.com/users/batyatoon/14039.html Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:42 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

My RSS Reader (FeedDemon) banned from Slashdot...the beginning of personalised RSS?

"Your RSS reader is abusing the Slashdot server. You are requesting pages more often than our terms of service allow. Please see the FAQ link for more information" I'm apparently nailing the Slashdot servers with my RSS reader requests to the point that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:06 AM by alexbarn | 19 Comments

Sasser wormer confesses

BBC reports that an 18 year old from Germany has confessed to writing the Sasser worm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3695857.stm Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 08, 2004 1:01 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Microsoft Security Bulletins in RSS

via Lockergnome , get your Microsoft Security Bulletins via RSS . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:17 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Familiar Strangers

via Smartmobs: "Intel's Urban Atmospheres research group released Jabberwocky , an intriguing mobile phone application designed to help people visualize, explore and play with their encounters with groups of strangers in day-to-day urban life." It would Read More...
Posted Monday, May 03, 2004 8:43 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
 
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