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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

Programming Language Trends and more

Tim O'Reilly's series of posts on book sales are giving up lots of interesting data and trends from the Nielsen Bookscan's top 3,000 Computer Books report (means: all publishers not just O'Reilly sales, but US sales only). Yesterday's post was no different Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:58 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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If you like microformats and RSS you will love this.

If you like microformats and / or RSS you'll love it. If you don't know about microformats and / or RSS you need to watch it. Channel9 interviews Matt Augustine and Paresh Suthar about Live Clipboard and Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE). Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:04 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

I have invites for Windows Live QnA...

Well, lucky me and lucky you. Betsy , Krista and co have been good enough to let me have some invites to give away for the Windows Live QnA Beta (hidden behind a beta door right now) If you’ve not heard of this service, check out this summary by TechCrunch Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 8:13 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Using the Flickr API with .NET

MSDN's Coding4Fun has a good intro article on playing with the Flickr API using Flickr.Net API library : "the actual mechanics of communicating with Flickr are relatively simple. The hard part is coming up with the idea for a groovy new application." Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 12:45 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Windows Live buggy

Nah, not that kind of buggy, this kind of buggy: Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:08 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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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
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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

Go and microformat stuff! ('cause it's going to happen anyway)

JasonKolb, rightly in my humble opinion, is getting excited by the potential of the microformats , RSS and the clipboard (mRc?) combo (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, read on): "With the looming rise of the clipboard to transport XML, disguised Read More...
Posted Friday, May 12, 2006 12:01 AM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

It doesn't have a name yet

Don Dodge hints to something very cool... "It doesn't have a name yet, but indications are that Microsoft will build out the biggest hosted computing infrastructure in the world that will enable new hosted SaaS applications for consumers, small business, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:58 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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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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Wiring the Web (the video)

Matt Augustine and Paresh Suthar presented the Live Clipboard / RSS SSE (and microformats) work at Microsoft Mix06 last month. Was a great session - you can watch the video now . - Tags: RSS microformats Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:16 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

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
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