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July 2005 - Posts

That sort of thing

Came across this cartoon by Eric Devericks yesterday, too good not share: ( Update: In case you missed it, the cartoon relates to this news .) Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 30, 2005 10:59 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

IE7 and CSS

I've previously mentioned the Acid2 test designed for browser developers to test against. Chris Wilson, who leads the web platform at Microsoft, provides an update on the progress IE7 is making with respect to standards (I'm quoting the whole section Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 30, 2005 12:16 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Gates on Xbox: 'we've got a Ferrari, they've got a Ferrari'

Todd Bishop at seattlepi.com quotes Bill Gates: "Bill Gates, speaking at Microsoft's meeting with financial analysts today, explained that the company believes the hardware specifications of its Xbox 360 and those of Sony's PlayStation 3 are both top-notch. Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:08 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Seven Laws of Idenity slashdotted

Kim Cameron responds to some of the Slashdot comments on the Seven Laws of Identity . Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:06 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

'Google Patenting Ads in Syndicated Feeds?'

John Batelle : "Apparently Google has filed for a patent in "Incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated, e.g., RSS, presentation format in an automated manner." Uh Oh. TechDirt reports on this disturbing idea. After all, many folks have Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:58 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

What does is mean to have the 'best programmers'?

Joel Spolky's article 'Hitting the High Notes' asks whether it makes sense to talk about having the 'best programmers?'. He provides some interesting data showing how some programmers can crank the code out 70% to 250% faster than others for the same Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:59 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

‘ctrl-alt-del’ will now be known as : ‘hasta la vista’

Inside Microsoft : "‘ctrl-alt-del’ will now be known as : ‘hasta la vista’" hehehehe... Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:58 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

I can't talk about this right now

I can't talk about this right now . Update , (11:24pm PT) - embargo lifted . Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:39 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

A misunderstanding of Creative Commons

Joe Gratz, a recent law school graduate has done a thorough job of disecting John Dvorak's opinion of the Creative Commons . From Dvorak's opening paragraph: "Dubbed the Creative Commons this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:04 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Web Standards Project meets Microsoft

Molly E. Holzschlag provides an update on the progress made between Microsoft and the Web Standards Project (WaSP): " Since the announcement of the WaSP / Microsoft Corporation Task Force we’ve had two face to face meetings. ... We used our time to discuss Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:31 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

The Future of RSS is not blogs

Further to yesterday's rant regarding the potential of RSS for investors, Feed For All blog, describes how RSS is moving from its early application of blog to wider domains in the corporate space . "Even now, businesses that were initially reluctantly Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:48 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

RSS will succeed by disappearing

Blogspotting quotes Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati: "Sifry: I think RSS needs to be completely transparent. It’s like asking people to understand HTML in order to read a web site. That entirely limits your audience. Longhorn announced RSS being built into Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:44 PM by alexbarn | 11 Comments

RSS Investment Fund too narrowly focused?

Upon hearing the announcement of the $100m RSS Investements Fund one might react to the news that the fund is too narrowly focused (on RSS) to be successful. One example of of this view is Paul Ketrosky's comment : "While there are few hard and fast rules Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:10 PM by alexbarn | 6 Comments

Microsoft Certified Professional aged 9

According to News.com : "A Pakistani girl has qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of 9. Arfa Karim of Multan has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan, and one of the youngest in the world. Karim, now 10, met with Microsoft Read More...
Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 8:29 PM by alexbarn | 8 Comments

'BBC ready to start selling online advertising spaces'

Adverblog : "The BBC is not immune from the money attraction, and is about to start selling advertising spaces on its website, but only to overseas visitors. In an interview published today on The Guardian Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology Read More...
Posted Monday, July 18, 2005 9:51 AM by alexbarn | 9 Comments

Forget recording Skype calls, what about Halo2?

This Spartan Life has been doing its thing for a while - recordings of Halo2 action with stereo sound effects, voice, soundtrack music and a few frags thrown in for good measure. An interesting way of sharing an interview....! ( Via Minh at Channel 9 Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:37 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Podcasts and Screencasts are not the same

I realise this is mundane, but sorry Robert Scoble, I feel duty bound to disagree with you as to whether video content delivered via RSS should be called a 'podcast': "Some groups call what they do "screencasts" (cause they are doing Flash videos of what Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 6:53 PM by alexbarn | 13 Comments

The orginal geek bit the heads off chickens

My wife asked me what the word 'geek' meant. I wanted to be sure I gave the proper definition, so looked it up. One thing I didn't know was the origin of the word 'geek'. I'm not sure how credible to following is, but thought I'd share with you this entry Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:29 AM by alexbarn | 6 Comments

I heard the news today, I boy...

I woke up, checked my BBC headline news feeds, 10 of which reporting the horrors of the bomb explosions in London today . This is Madrid all over again. I called my family in London, they are all ok. One of the bombs, at Edgware Road tube station, killed Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:41 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Kim Cameron video interview at Channel 9

Robert Scoble interviews Microsoft's cheif identity architect Kim Cameron over at Channel 9 : "Kim Cameron has caused quite a stir with his Identity Blog . He came out with a whitepaper called "the Laws of Identity" which has caused quite a bit of conversation. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:24 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

The Wonderful, Wonderful Web

You'll have to pardon me, as I'm having one of those occasional 'wow, the www is amazing!' moments... Mike Rundle writes about his amazement with technology and reels off some of the things are enabled through technology. But for me, it is the Internet Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:46 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

RSS aggregator market 'more and more fragmented every time we measure it'

Brian Livingston at Datamation looks at some data provided by Feedburner based on the 70,000 RSS feeds they manage (via Dan Gillmore ). The data tells quite a story regarding the distribution of the RSS aggregator market. There are two tables of data, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:45 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) is hiring

Apparently the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) is hiring . I heard this via Church of the Customer ....does that count as WOMM? Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:38 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

WaSP to collaborate with Microsoft to promote web standards

From the press release at the Web Standards Project (WaSP): "Today Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0, currently in beta, create XHTML 1.0 transitional markup by default and provide real-time standards and browser markup validation. Developers can validate Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:20 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow this weekend...

Family is away...gives me chance to indulge in a bit of guilt-free Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow this weekend...if you are playing too add me to your friends list. My Xbox Live gamertag: alex101 Read More...
Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 11:10 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Quake Announced for Mobile Phones

MobileTechReview reports " Quake Announced for Mobile Phones " "The mobile gaming world is going to shake when the legendary QUAKE hits handsets later this year. Thanks to an agreement announced today between id Software and publisher Pulse Interactive, Read More...
Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 11:04 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

This is fishy...

This is ridiculous. "Fishermen in northern Thailand have netted a fish as big as a grizzly bear, a 646-pound Mekong giant catfish, the heaviest recorded since Thai officials started keeping records in 1981. The behemoth was caught in the Mekong River Read More...
Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 10:36 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

A History of MSN

Paul Thurrott provides a three-part historical look at MSN : " So here is the story of MSN's rebirth as an Internet services powerhouse. In part one, I quickly examine the convoluted history of MSN, which has been repurposed and re-imagined repeatedly Read More...
Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 9:17 PM by alexbarn | 18 Comments

Richard and I recorded our Skype call

Richard MacManus of Read/WriteWeb and I had a Skype chat this evening and recorded the call Talked about Web 2.0, attention.xml, a bit about RSS, APIs and more. Here's the MP3 . (18mb, 20 mins) ( here is a post on how you can record a Skype call ) Update: Read More...
Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 12:43 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
 
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