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February 2006 - Posts

The convergence of bloggers

Sounds fancy, don't it? Philip's getting a 'convergence' meme attack...so much so, he's looking for other convergent bloggers who are going to the Convergence event in Dallas, and converge with them. - Tags: convergence Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:31 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

New Live.com Service: Street-Side (Preview)

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has more details plus screenshots : "Microsoft’s Live.com is launching a preview version of a new service called Street-Side today (link will be live around 12 PST today). Street-Side will augment the Live Local service Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:59 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Aussie tech bloggers - TalkTechBlogs

Frank Arrigo has been working on a cool little project Down Under. It's called TalkTechBlogs . "This project has been a dream of mine for a while. It provides a single aggregated view of all the local bloggers in the OPML, as well as the ability for bloggers Read More...
Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 8:14 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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About my past

Kent had a bit of a surprise to find that he was related to Meryl Streep . So I tried to find out more about my own past over at myheritage.com . This is what turned up: Funny thing is, I bought Tracy's 2005 album just last week. I didn't know she was Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 4:30 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

The Intelligent Designer speaks

One recent comment at this post of mine caught my eye, left by the 'Designer'. Anyway, it points to an exclusive video interview you should check out if you're interested in the origins of the Universe - the Intelligent Designer speaks . My favourite Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:54 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Optimal OPML Browser

More cool OPML stuff. James Corbett and Adam Green have pointed out a new web-based OPML file browser called Optimal , created by Dan MacTough . I like love it because Optimal: Honours the file hierachy with collapsable outlines Provides links to the Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:20 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Software I Use

James Governor posted another Declarative Living post , including a link to Alex Bosworth's Software I use page on Swik. For some reason, I thought this was a good idea - I'm bizarrely partial to the documentation of my stuff. Examples include my home Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 25, 2006 9:00 AM by alexbarn | 9 Comments
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Content 2.0, London (06.06.06) - I'll be there...

I interrupt my usual provisioning of blog fodder to let you know I'm going to be in London to take part in the Debate and Panel section ('The Power of Search and Recommendation') of the Content 2.0 event , organized by the non-profit org NMK . It's a Read More...
Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 6:42 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Safe Mashing

Philip Richardson, PM at the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team has a thought provoking post on Mashups and security ... Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing these two words - 'security' and 'mashup' - mashed strung together...remember - safe mashing! Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:35 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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What's the difference between kinky and perverted?

Wanrning - rant post. (btw, if you're looking for the punch line to the title scroll down...) One of the things that breaks blogging netiquette protocol - and annoys me no end - is the habit *some* have of quoting massive chunks of others' posts. It's Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:39 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Response to the Attention Problem

Joshua Porter gave a talk recently 'Web 2.0 - Leveraging the Network' . He has published the slide deck that accompanied the talk and I ran through it this morning...I wish I could have attended, it looks great. I guess I'll have to ask him to go through Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:05 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Highly targeted Ajax advertising

Context is everything. - Tags: Web 2.0 , Ajax , Advertising Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:08 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Just when I thought it was safe not to blog about OPML

Just when I thought it was safe not to blog about OPML and RSS, along comes Technorati to spoil my sabbatical with their favorites feature. Here are *some* (50) of my favorite blogs/sites . Almost all are webbish / tech-type blogs and sites. Others are Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:55 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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REST vs. SOAP

Don Box: "Someone recently asked me about how to handle an internal product debate around REST vs. SOAP. In hopes I never have to address this debate again, here's a record of what I told them. " Behold the truth . - Tags: SOAP , REST , Web 2.0 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:12 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Podcast charging $ monkey *#$!f%! news

I suppose it was a no-brainer to predict that the Ricky Gervais podcast show was going to be a hit. He's the other no-brainer: charging $7 (or £4.50) a month for the next series of podcasts is a show-stopper. (via hashdot ). Who thought of that? The monkey Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 10:11 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments
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C# interview questions

Mark Wagner has collated some interview questions (with answers) you might be asked if you were interviewing for a C# dev role. via Del.icio.us, via DiggLicious , via John Tropea . Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 9:11 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Scotty's ashes to go orbital

Star Trek's Scotty (actually, actor James Doohan) will have his ashes rocketed to space . He's joined by another 186 deceased whose families have paid around $900 to $5,000 (US) for the privilege. Apparently this isn't a first. The same company that's Read More...
Posted Monday, February 20, 2006 6:52 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Interview: 'Microsoft Exec Talks IE7, RSS'

BetaNews has an interview with Gary Schare, Director of IE Product Management. Topics discussed include the changes coming in IE7, Active X, Ajax, Firefox and the Windows RSS platform. - Tags: IE7 , RSS , Microsoft Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:19 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Attention engines - screencast

I created a quick screencast to show what I mean by the term ' Attention Engines '. Before I sign out for the night, I wanted to share some quick thoughts on others' recent posts discussing the Attention space. Don Dodge asks : "So, who are the new gatekeepers Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 12:43 AM by alexbarn | 10 Comments
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FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2.0 introduces ability to import your feeds from the Windows Common Feed List

Long headline, I know - but I couldn't think of anything else. FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2.0 introduces ability to import your feeds from the Windows Common Feed List . - Tags: RSS , OPML , Microsoft , Web , Tech Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:18 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Infocard screencast

If digital identities are of interest to you, so should this quick screencast by Kim Cameron demo'ing Infocard - it's worth a download. Choose the second file to download (the 2.5 MB size file). "As a taste of upcoming MIX06 sessions, Kim Cameron presents Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:52 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Beginning of the Attention Engine race

Wow, I missed this the first time around... Megite is going letting me do what I've been asking Memeorandum (or enyone else that will listen) to let me do for ages - to pivot off my own OPML file. The feature isn't switched on for everyone yet, but I've Read More...
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 10:58 PM by alexbarn | 13 Comments
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Reading Lists (OPML) podcast: Danny Ayers and Adam Green

Last year Dave Winer started to push the idea of Reading Lists for RSS . More recently, the idea of Dynamic Reading Lists and Feed Grazing (or Grazing Lists / Glists) has been kicking around. Its likely that Reading Lists support will become a common Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:50 PM by alexbarn | 16 Comments
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My Del.icio.us bookmarks in my RSS feed

I've spliced my Del.icio.us bookmarks into my Feedburner generated RSS feed . If it annoys you, let me know. It is set to publish only once a day (if I've bookmarked anything, that is) so shouldn't be spammy. These are bookmarks I actually use but thought Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 11:15 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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The real 'meme' trackers are yet to be invented

The word 'memetracking' or ('meme tracker') has been used to describe services such as Memeorandum , Megit , Tailrank and Chuquet . I can't call them 'memetrackers'. I like them, they're useful sites and all that, but they aren't 'meme' trackers. A meme, Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 8:54 PM by alexbarn | 22 Comments
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More Xbox team bloggers

Xbox's Major Nelson has links to more Xbox team bloggers : "When I started this blog over two years ago, no one in the Xbox product team was blogging. I launched this blog in 2004 after I joined the Xbox team as a way of sharing a little bit of what goes Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 8:25 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Web 2.0 - fluff?

Fellow Web 2.0 Workgroup member Dion Hinchcliffe and two Microsoft architects Harry Pierson and Michael Platt have blogged about SPARK, a plannned series of high-level forums hosted by Microsoft on the topics of SOA, Software as a Service, Web 2.0, and Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:09 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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More on the Windows RSS Platform

Last week, the Microsoft RSS team published Windows RSS Platform API documentation - note: is draft - (known as the Microsoft Feed APIs)...you can find this at MSDN . In today's post , program manager Walter VonKoch outlines how the Common Feed List, Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:21 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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(RSS + SSE) + OPML + Reading lists = Attention?

Steve Rubel has nice idea: "What I would love to see in the coming months is a tool that uses SSE and reading lists to implement the wonderful features in Stumbleupon right inside an RSS reader. Here's another way to picture it. What if users had a way Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:54 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Attention podcast : Attention with Steve Gillmor, Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett

When Joshua Porter and I started our non-formal podcasting efforts a while ago, we made list of the people we'd want to have on our 'show' and talk to. High on both our lists was Steve Gillmor . So we were thrilled when he accepted our invitation to join Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:23 PM by alexbarn | 8 Comments
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Ajax and Virtual Earth tutorial

The Virtual Earth blog has posted some info on the first of a three part tutorial on Ajax and Virtual Earth . "Upon completing this simple tutorial you’ll have a mapping application built with the Virtual Earth map control that utilizes AJAX to asynchronously Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:41 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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'Imagining the Internet' and Information Overload

While driving to and from work today (including a detour for the ubiquitous drive-thru caffeine fix malarkey) I had the opportunity to listen to a presentation downloaded from IT Conversations called 'Imagining the Internet'. Loved it. The presentation, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:08 AM by alexbarn | 9 Comments
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Mash Me Up

When I heard this , I thought they were singing ‘Mash Me Up’. Selective hearing I suppose… Via the human aggregator . Read More...
Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 8:35 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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State of the Attention Problem

Technorati's David Sifry has posted the latest of his regular updates providing a bunch of stats and analysis on the blogosphere's development. The bottom line is that the number of blogs created, according to Technorati, continues to double about every Read More...
Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 7:45 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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My brand spanking new OPML blog

I've finally got my shiny new OPML blog up and running . It's powered using Dave Winer's OPML Editor . Not much to see yet - it's rough, but it's ready...I've been meaning to get this sorted for ages but had fun and games on my machines...am rolling now. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 12:45 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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The good guys lose

William, our four year son, summed up the dire result . "The good guys lose. The enemy wins." Congrats to the Steelers. Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:09 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Go Seahawks!!!

er, when in Rome and all that... Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 2:15 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Ajax Scribble application with ASP.NET Atlas

The Code Project has a good tutorial showing how to create an Ajax Scribble application with ASP.NET Atlas . Via Ajaxian . - Tags: ASP.NET , .NET , Ajax , Atlas Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 04, 2006 4:03 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Welcome visitors

This last rainy week in Redmond has been sunnied by a bunch of welcome visitors. Some were were old friends and others became friends newly made. There was a Mini Geek Dinner last night. In attendance were out-of-towners Frank La Vigne , Paul Mooney and Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 04, 2006 1:38 PM by alexbarn | 6 Comments
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Skype chats as RSS feeds

I love this. Jaanus, a Skype employee, listened to the Attention podcast I recorded with Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon and Kevin Burton of Tailrank . "At Skype, we’ve always been toying with the idea of attention management. You already see elements of that Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 04, 2006 8:56 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Solving Tag-Hell

Backup Brain recently highlighted one of the problems with the tagosphere - the 'which tag do I use' problem. I say 'one' of the problems, because there are at least three tagospheric problems that are creating a Tag-Hell: 1. When in content tagging mode Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 12:03 AM by alexbarn | 26 Comments
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There are 54,993,666,708,469,390,869,140,625 ways to construct a 10-machine-instruction program

Chris Jackson is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services. He doesn't blog that much, but when he does, it's a must-read feed for me. His blog is called ' Evolving the Software Organism ' and focuses on genetic programming. In this post on the topic Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:22 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Microsoft Mashup videos

John Musser over at Programmable Web has a bunch of links to some developer-focused videos covering Start.com gadgets (Live.com), MSN Search APIs, MSN Search Toolbar, Virtual Earth and some Atlas Ajax goodness. - Tags: MSN , APIs , Mashup , Web2.0 , Microsoft Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:42 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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new Web 2.0 Journal site

Dion Hinchcliffe, the Editor-in-Chief of the brand new Web 2.0 Journal site has posted his launch piece today. Congrats Dion!: "Though it's a complex and often subtle topic - and recognizing that Web 2.0 definitions vary across the community - we believe Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:33 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Windows RSS Platform = RSS everywhere

The IE blog posted some interesting RSS / Windows info this morning : "You might have seen or read about the RSS functionality in the user interface of IE7 Beta 2 Preview. There is a bit more to it then just letting users subscribe and read feeds from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:02 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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How many feeds do you subscribe to?

How many RSS feeds do people subscribe to? This is one of the questions Wolfgang Bartelme asked his blog (feed?) readers and he's got 86 responses so far. As Chris points out the average seems number of feeds being subscribed to as reported within Wolfgang's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:34 AM by alexbarn | 27 Comments
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