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September 2004 - Posts

Personalised RSS feed & web UI from MSDN UK

During my trip to Redmond last week, we launched MSDN Connection in the UK . The concept is simple enough: tell us what languages and technologies you are interested in and we'll aggregate the corresponding MSDN content for you . You can consume it 2 Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:17 PM by alexbarn | 6 Comments

On the interplanetary net there is no "now"

Vint Cerf gives an interview for BBC's Click Online (transcript and video) where he shares his thoughts on the interplanetary net. He points out the lag issue - an interesting design constraint for future interactive service designers... "When you get Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:55 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Jeremy Allaire, distracted: Internet Video

Macromedia's Jeremy Allaire has been distracted by TV, very distracted in fact. His last blog posting was in April ' Distracted...by TV ' until this week (5 months later) where he posts about the very same: ' The Internet of Video '. April 20 2004 Distracted...by Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:26 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

I really have no idea how plausable this is...From Future Now : " Riemann Hypothesis and the future of e-commerce We rarely get to write about higher mathematics here, but the Guardian Unlimited's cryptic headline , "Maths holy grail could bring disaster Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:03 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Spam? I don't have spam, I use RSS ;-)

Spam? I don't have spam , I use RSS ;-) Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:30 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Spammers Using Sender ID

Technology Review's Simon Garfinkel picks up on an article published at Infoworld . "Spammers have started publishing their own Sender ID records, allowing their email to speed through anti-spam filters, according to this IDG News Service article. Sender Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:21 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

RSS: The GPRS KillerApp

(Via New Mobile Computing ) "With a little bit of marketing RSS on the cellphone could be the next KillerApp " If you have a Smartphone you can get mobile RSS today . Read More...
Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 2:35 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Microsoft B2B Site Case Study

(Via Digital Web Magazine ) "In February 2004, Microsoft UK launched Advisor, an extranet targeted at business and technical decision makers in the mid-market. Alex Barnett (er, that's me!) shares lessons learned from the Advisor development process about Read More...
Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 2:22 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Dynamic RSS Feeds and Bandwidth Consumption

Nick Bradbury's take (author of FeedDemon RSS reader ) on the RSS bandwidth concerns . "This sounds simple enough, but there's a big problem here: many high-traffic RSS feeds are created dynamically through server-side code, and the HTTP server won't Read More...
Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 1:47 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

RFID and Privacy

Microsoft describes (word.doc) key privacy issues around RFID use, and presents recommendations to address these issues. Abstract: In this article , Microsoft illustrates how privacy threats can arise from RFID, and enumerates the key threats in various Read More...
Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 1:37 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Eyetrack III study - text speaks louder than pictures

Via Robert Scoble: " Poynter does scientific study on how people read Web sites Everytime Poynter Institute does EyeTrak research they change how people design media. This time they use their fancy eye tracking machines to look at how people read Web Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:37 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Case study on effect of a blog to the bottom line

Marketing Sherpa has published a case study on the effect of a blog to the bottom line (btw: the article is only open for public access through September 17) . The company in question is T-Shirt King . "RESULTS: Site sales tripled during 2003, and have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:23 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Blogspats - the fog of blogwars

Nick Bradbury points to a posting by Douglas Rushkoff ' the real threat of blogs ' . I then saw a previous posting 'Bloggers Ad Nauseum' where the subject of whether or not it is 'right' to accept ads on a blog is discussed somewhat passionately... When Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:50 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Internet2 sets new record: 6.63 gigabits per second

From Digital Media Europe : " Scientists at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2IO have successfully tested a new internet2 land-speed record. Read More...
Posted Monday, September 06, 2004 9:55 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Vote or Not..the solution to voter apathy?

The guys who brought you Hot or Not, now give you a decent reason to vote - the opportunity to win $100K. At Vote or Not , they are giving away $200k...Why? Because it'll be the best $200K's worth of marketing dollars they have probably spent...but they Read More...
Posted Monday, September 06, 2004 9:18 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Don't Lock the Taskbar

UI Designer mentioned that he has moved his taskbar to the top of his desktop rather than leave it in the default position at the bottom of the screen. I tried this out myself a few years ago and have stuck with it ever since - less mousework to do since Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 05, 2004 9:00 PM by alexbarn | 6 Comments

RSS not ubiquitous, yet.

Rick Bruner at Business Blog Consulting gives ' One (Percent) Reason Why Not to Switch From Email to RSS' . The general gist is right - the debate should move away from RSS v Email and move to how RSS can become part of the marketing mix. In the article, Read More...
Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 2:33 AM by alexbarn | 17 Comments

Gates explains Longhorn changes

ZDNet interview with Bill Gates on Longhorn. Robert Scoble has posted a load of related blogosphere links on the Longhorn news. Also, see C hris Sells' What WinFX on Down-Level Windows Means for Developers - article describes how bringing WinFX to Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:54 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Winnable Solitaire - the great indie software start-up experiment

Erik Sink has started an experimental project to understand the world of micro-ISVs, or 'indie software developers (software companies that are comprised of only one person) He's outlined the project in an MSDN article "Exploring Micro-ISVs" and is providing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:52 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

UK turning into nation of gamers

A couple of articles referencing a new report on the games market. Highlights: BBC: UK turning into nation of gamers Over the last six years, the UK market for games grew by 100% and was worth a record £1,152m in 2003, according to a report by analysts Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:07 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

40% of Internet households interested in purchasing Portable Media Centre devices

From WindowsForDevices.com ...( Via IT Facts.biz ) : The Diffusion Group's Consumer Interest in Portable Media Centers suggests that more than 40 percent of Internet households will be interested in purchasing PCM devices, while 10 percent will "definitely Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:33 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
 
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