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Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:38 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr

Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs. Kevin, one way of displaying Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:37 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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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

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

Live.com and OPML

New feature ( among others ) on Live.com : "- OPML Request: can I export my rss feeds that I’ve subscribed to on live.com in OPML format? You can now do this: click on add stuff -> ‘advanced options’" This may not seem like a big deal, but I think Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:00 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Social Search

Business Week has an article outlining some of the 'social search' developments underway at Microsoft. What is 'social searching'?: "Microsoft plans to unveil a question-and-answer social-search tool in the coming months, says Justin Osmer, senior product Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 9:50 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

The Next Big Thing is: There is no Next Big Thing.

The Next Big Thing is: There is no Next Big Thing. Baloney. I liked Don Dodge's response to the 'there is no Next Big Thing' : "The Next Big Thing does exist...it just doesn't look BIG to IBM. That is a common problem with large companies. When you have Read More...
Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 8:05 AM by alexbarn | 5 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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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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RSS, OPML + SSE - Tutorial and Samples

The RSS Team blog : "We’ve received lots of requests – both from the community and from within Microsoft- for samples, samples, samples of SSE code in action. We heard you. Here is a tutorial outlining “SSE 101” with accompanying samples." - Tags: RSS Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 3:01 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Alas, MSN Search Champs is over

Alas, the fourth MSN Search Champs is over. Although I'm at Microsoft, I'm not an MSN'er, so I had two reasons for being there. The first was that I was invited by Brady Forrest as he wanted my feedback on aspects of the MSN products in development. The Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 8:26 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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RSS: 'beginning of the upcoming dissruption'

James Governor : "we're still just at the very beginning of the upcoming dissruption. 2005 was not the end of RSS adoption, or the beginning of the end of RSS adoption, but rather the end of the beginning. Turn the Long Tail the other way round. The mainstream Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 11:30 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Grokking RSS + SSE, but what about OPML + SSE?

It has been a week since the RSS / OPML/ SSE proposal was announced by Ray Ozzie and Dave Winer . There is plenty of grokking going on with respect to RSS + SEE, but I've yet to come across any posts taking the time to think through the implications of Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:20 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Attention podcast part 2, Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett

Here's the second of the two part Attention podcast Skype call I recorded with Joshua Porter : Part 2: .(mp3, 46mb, 48min) Part 1 notes ( .mp3, 43mb, 45min) We've already got some feedback to the first half/part of the podcast. In particular I wanted Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 26, 2005 2:36 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Microsoft proposal: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML

(Updating with reactions, below) - Dave Winer : " Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. ... So we need some way to share subscriptions between different applications, between vendors Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 7:22 AM by alexbarn | 6 Comments
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