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5 Things You Don't Know About Andyed

Alex Barnett tagged me with the " 5 things meme " some weeks back. Here we go: I spent several weeks every summer going to cemetery conventions with my grandparents. I've heard all the jokes, this is a business of complex long term planning and sales. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:43 PM by andyed | 1 Comments

Wikipedia Neighborhood

With the morning buzz on wikipedia and search , and a snowy day in Redmond, I spent a moment to craft the Live.com version of wikiseek.com with a macro, andyed.wikiout. Try it for: bruce sterling inflation web 2.0 Try it out at http://search.live.com:80/macros/andyed/wikiout Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:09 PM by andyed | 1 Comments

Small Update to the OPML Generator

The OPML generator revealed an interesting use case -- tracking the blogosphere's opinion on specific topics or products through comment feeds. However, this is typically not what folks want to add to their normal subscription list. I've refined control Read More...
Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 4:28 AM by andyed | 0 Comments
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OpenSource Garden from Microsoft: CodePlex is Looking Good

A couple months ago, I learned about Microsoft's official process & support for community, open source projects centered around www.codeplex.net . At that point, the site was pretty empty, but it's turned into very active development repository. A Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:15 PM by andyed | 0 Comments
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1 Degree from Chris Pirillo

One of my more fanciful macro creations as I experimented with LinkFromDomain over the last few weeks was a 7 degrees inspired hack using Seattle internet poster boy Chris Pirillo . Macro:andyed.aintNobodyIfYouAintPirillo restricts matches to content Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:04 PM by andyed | 1 Comments
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Search Macros Recap: DiggRank and the Power of Trusted Networks

In case you couldn't tell, in microsoftie speak, I'm super excited about (advanced) search macros . I've created about 50 macros, the best of which I selected for the macro directory on this site. Almost all of these macros feature LinkFromDomain heavily. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:00 AM by andyed | 2 Comments
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From Domain X Where Are the Link Destinations on Domain Y?

From Domain X Where Are the Link Destinations on Domain Y? An example of using advanced syntax at Live Search . Try an examples From: Wired.com Scripting.com Techcrunch.com microsoft.com msn.com seattlepi.com digg.com metafilter.com slashdot.org valleywag.com Read More...
Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 5:06 PM by andyed | 2 Comments
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My Live Search Macro Directory

Macros See my entire collection at Gallery.Live.com Microsoft(y)... ClearType Downloads MS Office Tips Tablet PC Windows Live Windows Mobile / Pocket PC Windows Media Center Windows Vista XAML XBox Game Tips Zune Entertainment... Bluegrass Daily Show Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:57 PM by andyed | 2 Comments
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Live Search OPML Generator: Bootstrap Your Blogosphere Engagement

What does it do? : This app runs your query against the Live Search API with the feed: syntax , returning RSS feeds, and assembles an OPML file. You'll get the chance to choose from the results before generating the subscription list. What is OPML? : Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:39 AM by andyed | 3 Comments
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Innovation in Feedback Collection with Windows Vista

I've written about the challenges of capitalizing on at-scale user feedback both academically and on the search blog (busted post alas, edit when fixed) . One way to listen to users is to open up your bug tracking system to the world, as done by Mozilla.org. Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:15 PM by andyed | 1 Comments
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Gestures in Vista for the Tablet PC

Windows Vista offers a operating system level implementation of gestures called Flicks especially tuned for pen usage on tablets. There's an important difference between this implementation and gesture implementations like Optimoz for firefox: there is Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:35 PM by andyed | 0 Comments
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Tricking the mind, tricking the senses with Vista audio hacks

Arstechnica, one of the sites that made my " techy " news macro, has posted a nice review of Vista audio enhancements . Bass tweaking sounds great, and one feature is quite interesting from a psychological perspective: Speaker fill Speaker fill is a technique Read More...
Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 3:31 AM by andyed | 1 Comments

Layered UI: Another Example in the Mac "Time Machine"

Nate put together a nice collage of some layered UI work we did back in the late 90s next to a recent ship from Apple: The webgraphics UI allowed a user to see all 10 titles and hover in to see details. The time explorer uses a cleaner mapping of y-axis Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:39 PM by andyed | 1 Comments
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News.com on MSR (re)Search. SIGIR in Seattle.

Wow, academic work covered by News.com ; well, it is research by sone of MSR's most talented information retrieval folks and the search competitive space seems to be a media favorite. One of the works discussed by News.com explores a nalysis of user behavior Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:09 PM by andyed | 0 Comments
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Searching for personal homepages only at Live.com

Google Blogoscoped covers a recent Matt Cutt's video session where the question of searching only personal homepages is addressed. We also recognized this need and crafted a macro for this purpose at Live Search. Here's what it looks like: prefer:intitle:""'s"" Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:42 PM by andyed | 3 Comments
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