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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

Sir Tim: Calm Down 2.0

This is what The Register said Sir TBL said about Web 2.0: "You should thank Tim Berners-Lee. Not just for giving us the web, but for articulating what's gone wrong in the lexicon and thinking of Silicon Valley. Hopefully, his standing in the web community Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:20 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Windows Live QnA service - public beta

Congrats to Betsy and the team : the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta. I've been on the private beta for a little while and turned to it for help for a couple of things when I got stuck. One example was asking for good seafood restaurants Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:43 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Tag, Tags, Tagging, Categorization, Classification and Laziness

Clearly a classic post on the topic of tagging, but I've not seen it before: A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular) , by Rashmi Sinha : "The rapid growth of tagging in the last year is testament to Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 7:37 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Taglocity 1.0 for Outlook

I blogged about a tagging tool for Outlook 2003, Taglocity , when it went to beta earlier this year. Well, the team has released Taglocity 1.0 ! Congratulations to David and his team. Click here to watch the Taglocity screencast ' href="http://www.taglocity.com/" Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:29 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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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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What is Web 2.0?

Assaf @ Supr.c.ilio.us has the answers . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:57 PM by alexbarn | 0 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

Syndicated search engines broken - Part II

A few days ago I grumbled at the poor state of the search engines specializing in syndicated (RSS'd or Atomized) content. Today, Michael Marshall Patrick is enthusiastically supporting a proposed standard by Bloglines that is trying to solve an apparent Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:34 PM by alexbarn | 17 Comments

Syndicated content search - still broken

For a few months now, Randy Charles Morin has been tracking and grading the performance of search engines specializing in syndicated (RSS'd or Atomized) content. These search tools can be invaluable when you are trying to keep track of what customers, Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:34 PM by alexbarn | 6 Comments
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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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Let's REST!

A bunch of links to RESTful resources I've collated here and there - should be a good starting point to get a handle on some of the basics of REST, with links to example APIs / documentation as well as some posts ReprESenTative of the discussion in this Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 5:11 PM by alexbarn | 12 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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A crack in this fine social scene?

John Udell has raised a point triggered by the Share Your OPML (SYO) OPML experiment that I've not even come close to thinking about regarding the 'my data' meme. "I presume there is no longer any argument about data export. If I contribute to blip or Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:17 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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PLOJ or POJ?

In the age of Ajax this and Ajax that, just remember - for some things, plain old Javascript ( PLOJ ) may be all you really need. Or is it POJ ? Read More...
Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 6:21 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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