Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

June 2006 - Posts

Techmeme hacked (redux)

Oh no, so it's happening again ( again , again , again )...! And yes, it is an echo chamber . - Update : Bah! Algorithms must have been updated (...de human editor won't bite twice ). Speaking of which... Read More...
Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 2:07 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Ground floor: 1

Via Postbubble I came across standpedia . It is provided by the same team who developed standpoint . I've just had a play with standpedia and I like it. Rather than try to explain what it does , here is a pic of what I created at standpedia: Got it? Like Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:22 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments
Filed under:

IE7 Beta 3 (more RSS goodness)

Microsoft's RSS team blog has this news . " IE7 Beta 3 is here ! We’ve snuck in some goodies in the feed reading user experience based on your Beta 2 feedback" The post provides details on the new RSS-related features. More feedback sought. If you have Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:29 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
Filed under: , ,

What is CodePlex?

Thanks to Sara h Ford for pointing out this interview on video (on Port25) with Korby Parnell explaining some of the background behind CodePlex , a new portal for collaborative software development & for sharing source code. Hey Dana :-) ! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:26 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Enterprise tagging - off to the races...

TechCrunch outlines some of the features in a new product out there developed called ConnectBeam . It was just matter of time before someone ran with the Tagging behind the firewall idea. From the page describing ConnetBeam's benefits: Bookmark, retrieve, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:35 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
Filed under: , ,

WinFS - Q and A with eWeek

eWeek : " Q&A: Corey Thomas, the group product manager for SQL Server, explains why Microsoft decided not to pursue the previously planned separate delivery of WinFS." Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:12 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
Filed under:

LibraryThing - it's not just about getting YOUR data IN...

Good to see LibraryThing getting a nice write up in the WSJ (via techmeme ) I've mentioned the service before as a good example of how you can get the data out that you put in . This is my profile on the site and a page of my catalog . As part of my learning Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 6:40 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments
Filed under: , ,

Is WinFS dead?

Quentin Clark has posted an update to the WinFS update and answers some of the questions that came since the post on Friday . It's a Q & A format to help clarify some of the speculation flying around over the weekend and today . And yes, the original Read More...
Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 9:52 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
Filed under:

Things to do in 1300 A.D

<off-topic. if you're looking for intelligent commentary on technological issues of the day, you're at the wrong place. please move on.> From time to time something catches my eye that sets me off down a complete waste of time. Like this . "Here’s Read More...
Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 8:56 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

The Italian job

Australia was robbed . Awful. (I mean it). Read More...
Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 9:52 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

microformats viewer

This is no ordinary blog post . It has embeded microformat content, but you won't see it. This is the same page rendered in a 'microcontent viewer' created by Jason Kolb , so now the microformat content renders in the browser. You can either hit the viewer Read More...
Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 8:40 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Virtual Earth *Interactive* SDK

How cool is this? Carter Maslan points to the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK : "The SDK is organized by the things you want to do , and each of those things is correlated to a live running sample, source code, and reference documentation - all one tab Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 25, 2006 6:35 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
Filed under: , , , ,

My musical attention (data)

Earlier this month I mentioned that at the Content 2.0 event I asked LastFMs product manager, Matthew Ogle about the ability to export my data out of the system so it could be plugged into another. After all, the music I listen to, for how long and when Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:56 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

On XSLT and LINQ to XML...

Yesterday Mike Champion (on XML team in Data Programmability) wrote up a post answering the question: 'Why does the world need another XML API?' The question is a summary of some the feedback we've heard regarding XLinq LINQ to XML . Mike explains some Read More...
Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 9:23 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
Filed under: , ,

LINQ, ADO.NET and Entities

In case you missed it, Somasegar (Microsoft's VP of Developer Division) blogged today about some of the LINQ and ADO.NET innovations planned for the next version of Visual Studio (Orcas). It's getting some attention already... Techworld : "Entities will Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:48 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
Filed under: , ,

Live Clipboard + microformats + RSS (SSE) + Microsoft Outlook screencast

Matt Augustine (works in Ray Ozzie's Concept Development Team) presented a demo at the Supernova 2006 conference in the "Decentralizing Data" workshop, moderated by Tantek Celik . The demo, available here as a screencast , shows how to leverage Live Clipboard Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:54 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

This town is addicted.

One of the joys of moving to this part of the world is the traffic. Now, everything is relative, and of course the Seattle area isn't free of jams, but it's a million miles (well, about 4799 actually) from the nightmare that is London. I live and work Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:06 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

Create BOT for Live Messenger, win cool stuff.

Via Frank La Vigne - if you're into AIs and help / KB systems here is just the challenge for you (devs and ISVs from around the world are eligable, not just US, which is nice...) "Robots or "BOTs", are software programs that you can add to MSN® Messenger Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:25 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
Filed under: , , ,

the opposite of Brewsters Millions

30 days to make $1m. From zero, nada, zilch. Well, $100, a cell phone and a one way ticket to New York City. Think the opposite of Brewster's Millions . Welcome to Remi Frazier's Million Dollar Destiny : "...In one month, I will come back to Colorado Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:19 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

Feedback on Live Messenger

Some cool demos at On 10 of the new Live Messenger . Chris has some more great feedback for our product teams. Don Dodge sees Live Messenger as further evidence of Ray Ozzie's infuence. AMCP Tech blog agrees . Jesse asks the team about plugins, given Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:48 AM by alexbarn | 6 Comments
Filed under: , , ,

Welcome to the blogosphere!...Now what?

Well, the 43rd comment to come in on this post of mine grumbling about Nameplanet's customer service seems to be good news for Nameplanet customers: "Jipie! Nameplanet has been taken over by Tucows! Although they announce not to make any changes at the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:43 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Spam, spam, spam and more spam.

This is a story about spam, the trademarking of SPAM, a product that tackles spam and a SPiced hAM company that was unavailable to talk about SPAM . - Tags: Spam Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 18, 2006 11:47 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Lucky Shawn

Lucky Shawn. There I was feeling all important by meeting Bill last week for a total of 10 seconds , and here is Shawn Morrissey having a proper meeting with Ray Ozzie and Bill on the topic of calendaring in Vista and Office 2007 . I wish I could tell Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 18, 2006 9:50 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
Filed under:

Gillette. The Best a Geek Can Get?

I lost my shaving stuff somewhere between London and Seattle last week. So I went off to the local shop and was confronted by an array of choice. I've been a Gillette 'man' for as long as I can remember shaving. So when I looked at the Gillette shelf, Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:21 AM by alexbarn | 16 Comments

A thrill meeting Bill

After the live webcast breaking the news that Bill's transition will complete in July 2006, there was an internal meeting (called 'Townhall meetings) with Bill explaining to Microsoft employees the reasons behind his decision and the plans moving forward. Read More...
Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 10:13 AM by alexbarn | 7 Comments
Filed under:

Vista - Media Center (Beta 2) review

Lots of luscious screenshots in Krunker.com's comprehensive review of Windows Media Center Preview in Vista Beta 2. Remember I told you that a very cute puppy nearly lost its life moments after it knocked a pint of water onto our laptop? Well, every cloud Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:54 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,

Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates

Wow.... "Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in Microsoft effective July 2008 to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and will continue to serve as the company’s chairman and Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:42 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
Filed under:

Wiki - word of the week (www)

Everyone's getting a wiki this week. First MSDN (well, last week), then eBay . Who's next? Update, June 14 : Dion Hinchliffe has a look at the MSDN Wiki offering. Makes a good point re: Firefox. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:51 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

MSDN API

I like this. A lot. MSDN now has a web API into the MSDN and TechNet Publishing System (MTPS) MSDN2 (not 2.0 ;-) library. 2.0 ;-) Craig Andera has the details, but the bottom line is this: the MSDN document library is enormous (and I mean really big - Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:41 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Open Source and Lip Service

ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn points out the facts that Jason Matusow's blog hasn't been updated since May 24 (a whole 20 days!!!) and Scoble's leaving of Microsoft , and therefore proof positive that Microsoft has no interest in the open source community: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:21 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
Filed under:

LINQ and ADO.NET Entities (Channel 9)

Sam Druker (my boss's boss's boss, on the left) and Anders Hejlsberg talk about the May CTP of LINQ , Entities and the future of ADO.NET on Channel 9 . This was Duncan Mackenzie 's first Channel 9 interview since joining the C9 team as a dev. I think Read More...
Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 6:10 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
Filed under:

MSReadr (or, RoboScoble)

The Windows Live product teams have a number of blogs, some hosted on MSDN and others on MSN Spaces. Now you can keep up with all these in any one of four ways. 1. Subscribe to a single feed Atom or RSS flavor) that aggregates the various posts or, 2. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 12, 2006 12:01 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
Filed under: , ,

Good luck Scoble.

Wow. I just heard the news and read his own confirmation that Robert Scoble is off to pastures new. Holy crap Robert! I'm a bit stunned actually. I knew the day would come, but didn't think it would happen so soon. Only last week I was London and hearing Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 11, 2006 12:35 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
Filed under:

MSDN does wikis

Yesterday Somasegar (who runs the Developer Division at Microsoft) announced the beta version of the MSDN Wiki - allowing customers to contribute to Microsoft’s developer documentation. "In the MSDN Wiki beta , you can add code samples and content directly Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 2:05 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
Filed under:

Coping with Information Overload (video)

About four weeks ago I made my way over to ZDNet's studios in San Francisco to be interviewed by Mike Elgan for DevSource and discuss a number of topics close to my heart. The video (15-ish mins) is now published. Mike asked me about microformats , tagging Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 7:19 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

Content 2.0 wrap up

The Content 2.0 event in London this week was great fun. Most of the focus revolved around user-generated content and 'modern marketing'. The day was kicked off by Marc Canter's energetic preaching on a wide range of topics including Structured Blogging Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:47 AM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

today

As you may have noticed, I'm taking some time off the blogging thing. I'm also in London now for the Content 2.0 event on Tuesday and taking a few days 'vacation' as part of the trip. At Content 2.0 I'm involved in the panel debate 'Search and Enjoy - Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:42 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
 
Page view tracker