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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:56 PM

(marketing) nirvana - thank you, Mario

Mario , I know this is long, long overdue, but thank you for this ( Is Community Evangelism the job of the future? (Updated) ) . I'm truly honored to have made the cut. I probably haven't said this enough, but I really find your blog to be really informational.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:21 PM

Yelp - more than reviews. now publicizing events.

It's no secret that I heart Yelp . Yelp is right up there as one of my favoritest social networks that provides one of the most brilliant, most useful services around. Just the other day, I was chatting with a friend and telling him how I thought that
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:03 PM

video : do you want to be uncomfortably energetic?

warning : adult language Thanks to the GD for this . " ai " Technorati Tags: powerthirst
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:34 AM

Open Source at Microsoft

At OSCON this week, we will be unveiling the covers on a new website - Open Source at Microsoft . The website's focus is to highlight our commitment to OSS and partnership with the OSS community. After the (what was supposed to be mini) project Jeff Atwood
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:43 PM

Pownce APIs coming soon?

Through Daniel's pownce (yeah, pownce is now a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb and a pronoun), I hear that Pownce APIs are in the works . I can't wait to write something for my Blackjack . " ai " Technorati Tags: pownce , daniel burka , pownce api
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:26 AM

You know things are bad when...

You know things have gone horribly wrong when you see this when you try to get to Craigslist : Here's the scoop, courtesy Techdirt : Blame Murphy's Law, Excessive Hubris For Blackouts In SF " ai " Technorati Tags: craigslist , power outage san francisco
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:46 PM

Beware - Lunch 2.0 can cause power outages

For the first time during my time here at the MS SF offices , we had several multiple power outages this afternoon . All during the time we were hosting Lunch 2.0 . Hilarious! Anyhow, I wanted to thank those of you who made it out here. Hope you enjoyed
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Monday, July 23, 2007 10:18 AM

Upcoming Lunch 2.0 @ MSFT : how on earth do I...

Lunch 2.0 is coming back to Microsoft tomorrow ( upcoming event info ). My apologies for not blogging about it sooner - literally minutes after Terry Chay put the post up on the Lunch 2.0 blog and I setup the event info on upcoming , we had peaked our
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Monday, July 23, 2007 7:30 AM

IronRuby news : first drop of the source code

You may have heard of IronRuby - a shared source implementation of Ruby that runs on top of the .NET. IronRuby is implemented on top of what we're calling the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) , which runs on top of the .NET and provides support for dynamic
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:17 AM

Alex on diggnation : the iPhone's auto-correct feature

Sorry, I know there's been iPhone overkill in the blogosphere over the last few weeks... Last week I met up with some old friends and for obvious reasons the conversation turned to the iPhone. One of my friends went on to talk about the auto-correcting
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:46 PM

pownce with me...

Thanks to Kevin R , I'm finally on Pownce. Pownce with me ... now playing in my head : " can i get a ... ", " jay-z " " ai " Technorati tags: pownce , artificialignorance , digg
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Monday, July 16, 2007 2:56 PM

the iPhone's many many uses...

It was not too long ago that Conan had this little iPhone parody : After reading about the world's simplest iPhone application on Mashable today, I'm thinking that all the uses mentioned in Conan's parody are probably not that far off. Fine, maybe using
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 1:10 PM

destiny

now playing in my head : " destiny " by " zero 7 " Trip Hop 's growing on me. " ai " Technorati tags: destiny , zero 7 , trip hop
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:26 PM

dear Jeremy S., all I want this summer, are some Yelp APIs...

Dear Jeremy , this summer, I'd like some Yelp APIs, please. With the kind of data that Yelp has available, by exposing some APIs, you can help us create some wicked cool mashups (on Popfly ). Maybe a Vista gadget or two to keep track of stuff easier on
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 5:03 PM

my not so "silver lining"

You know you've got issues when you're typing up an email, and you want to really type the words " silver lining " but instead you end up typing " silverlight " (because your fingers are used to typing silverlight 800 million times a day). In fact, as
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:39 AM

Popfly and Windows Live Services at MashupCamp next week

Want to learn more about Popfly ? Or Windows Live Services ? Come hear Scott Mauvais and I speak at MashupCamp (actually Mashup U ) next week. I believe we're slated to speak on 7/16 (could change to 7/17). Sign up now ! " ai " Technorati tags: popfly
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:35 AM

speeding cars

now playing in my head : " speeding cars ", by " Imogen Heap " I heart Imogen Heap. " ai " Technorati tags: speeding cars , imogen heap , indie
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Monday, July 09, 2007 2:00 PM

nerd rage - uncool

I remember my first few weeks as a software developer at Cisco. I'd joined one of the oldest teams at Cisco and the team comprised of people who had been with the company for 10 or 15 years. I was interacting with a lot of these old-timers on a regular
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Monday, July 09, 2007 10:28 AM

don't stop believin'...

playing in my head : " don't stop believin' ", Journey Ughh... I hate that most of the songs on Imeem have been reduced to 30 second previews . Makes sense from a legal standpoint, I guess. " ai " Technorati tags: imeem , journey , dont stop believin
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 11:45 PM

Stay posted on my events - Upcoming or Socializr me

It's no secret that I'm an event whore (wouldn't eventwhore.com be a great event site? Anyhow, I digress) I often get asked how people can keep track of what events are happening in Northern California. Not just Microsoft events , but others as well,
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 11:30 AM

iPhoneDevCamp : Interview with David Recordon and Artur Bergman

David Recordon , Artur Bergman and Anand Iyer talk about OpenID, the iPhone, iPhoneDevCamp among other things : http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=323234 " ai " PS: Thanks to my good friend and co-worker, the one and only, Tim Heuer , for helping
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 11:00 AM

iPhoneDevCamp : the Chris Messina interview

Chris Messina and Anand Iyer talk about BarCamp , iPhones, etc : http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=323231 " ai " PS: Thanks to my good friend and co-worker, the one and only, Tim Heuer , for helping post this to C9 . :) Technorati tags: iphone
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:24 AM

iPhoneDevCamp : the Patrick Scoble interview

Patrick Scoble and Anand Iyer talk about Patrick's experience of buying the iPhone, what he intends to do with it, and why he's at iPhoneDevCamp : http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=323230 (picture courtesy tow_adam ) " ai " PS: Thanks to my
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Friday, July 06, 2007 11:54 PM

SilverlightDevCamp - your thoughts?

Today at iPhoneDevCamp , I chatted with Chris Messina to get his thoughts on possibly doing a SilverlightDevCamp. Chris is hoping the *DevCamp series will take off : "I like the idea of a productive and educational DevCamp model and would like to see
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Friday, July 06, 2007 7:24 PM

iPhoneDevCamp : chatting with Kris Tate from Zooomr

I just spent some time chatting with Kris Tate (finally) about Zooomr and some issues he has been seeing with IE. I haven't had the chance to sit down and chat with him before, but I'm thoroughly impressed with his passion for Zooomr. Kris showed me some
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Friday, July 06, 2007 6:26 PM

live from iPhoneDevCamp, SF

Hola, I'm here at Adobe SF attending iPhoneDevCamp . Not much has happened just yet. Here's my flickr stream from the event. More to come later. Stay tuned. "ai" Technorati tags: iphonedevcamp , barcamp , iphone
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 7:42 PM

iPhoneDevCamp and the Adobe NDA

I'm signed up to attend iPhoneDevCamp this weekend. But I noticed that Adobe wants every attendee to sign an NDA . From the barcamp site : "Please be advised that all visitors to Adobe are asked to sign the following, on site, either electronically or
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 3:14 AM

transformers - thank you

Thank you, Michael Bay , for Transformers . Thanks for bringing back all those amazing childhood memories. The movie didn't really resemble the cartoons, but I could care less. Thanks for reminding me that I have the bladder of a 4 month old chipmunk,
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