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Jeff Atwood : Donating $5K to a .NET Open Source Project

Last year, Jeff Atwood and I had spoken about ways in which we can encourage development of Open Source projects in the Microsoft Ecosystem. At that point, Jeff decided to throw ads on his blog and to graciously donate a portion of his ad revenue to an
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what would you do if you were a Microsoft Evangelist?

I've been a Microsoft Evangelist for a few years now. From an inside-out perspective, it seems like things are going well. We spend a lot of time before a fiscal year begins laying out our goals. And typically, we do the best job we can to execute. But
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Shouldn't Twitter be able to do exactly what FriendFeed does?

I've started using FriendFeed . Not as a consumer of different people's feeds (because there is just way too much information), but because I can now point people to one location ( http://friendfeed.com/anandiyer ) where most of my different social networking
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blogger's block

I'm suffering from a serious case of blogger's block. If you're wondering, yes, it is like writer's block in a lot of ways. I've also been extremely busy and suffering with some (professional) issues. But aside from that, everything's been peachy. In
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Yelp valuation too high? Oh please...

First, congratulations to the Yelp team on raising another round . Just last week at the Online Marketing Summit after our panel talk, I spoke to a few people from other verticals like medical, finance and automotive about how I think everyone sees the
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google maps for mobile v window live for mobile

I've had my Samsung Blackjack II for a few months now. One of the things about this phone that excited me the most was the integrated GPS. I unlocked the GPS receiver (follow the instructions on that site verbatim to unlock your GPS*) to work outside
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Steve Ballmer is misunderstood

In the wake of the Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition proposal, I've met quite a few disappointed Yahooligans. And they are not disappointed that they'd be working at Microsoft, they are disappointed that they'd be working for Steve Ballmer . And it's not just
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live from demo'08 - day 1.5 and day 2

More companies, more demos : LiquidTalk The name gives you very little information about what the product is about (I'm not sure if LiquidTalk is the name of the company or the product). LiquidTalk's product gives mobile employees of a company to stay
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demo '08 - LeapFrog's Tag

I'd written about LeapFrog's Tag earlier today . Here's a video demonstration of Tag from Demo'08 : "ai" Technorati Tags: demo , demo08 , leapfrog , leapfrog tag
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Live from Demo'08, day 1 - Demo Coverage

I'm at the keynote session here at Demo '08 and I'm pretty stoked. Before you read on, a disclaimer : I'm pretty much typing this out, taking pictures, recording videos etc., live. So I apologize for typos, grammatical errors and things I would otherwise
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live from demo'08 - day 0

I flew into Palm Springs today for Demo'08 . The flight in was rocky to say the least - lets just say that the woman sitting next to me prayed during the last 15 minutes of our flight. Yeah. I love these technology agnostic conferences! On the way to
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what are you showing off at DEMO '08?

If you're going to be at DEMO '08 next week, stop by the Microsoft booth to say hello. Or just call me at 415-430-7975. I'd love to catch up and hear about what you've been working on. " ai " Technorati Tags: demo , demo08
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thank you, Microsoft

Yesterday marked my 3 year anniversary as a 'softie. As I look back over these 3 years, I can't help but be thankful for all the things the company's done for me. I don't mean to sound like a fan-boy (do Microsoft fan-boys even exist?), but for all the
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Interview with Andrew Hyde, founder of StartupWeekend

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=361423 " ai " PS: Thanks to Tim Heuer , for helping publish it. Technorati Tags: startupweekend , startupweekendsf , andrew hyde , channel9 , anandiyer , artificialignorance , silicon valley
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me @ devconnections 2007 doing silverlighty things

It's amazing - no matter howmuch you prep for an event, something, something , can always go wrong. "ai"
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