Anne 2.0: "I think I'm going to start dreaming in outlines." - Tags: Attention , OPML , dreaming

Dr. Gary Flake, Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the man responsible for bridging Microsoft Research (MSR) and MSN, announced Live Labs this morning at the MSN Search Champs event: "Earlier today at the Search Champs event I announced the formation...

I attended the MSN Search Champs today....and what a day. Given the recent news and concerns around the data MSN Search, Yahoo and AOL provided to the government, there was a session set up where the 57 bloggers / online experts at MSN Search Champ were...

If you happen think the Long Tail is load of baloney then consider this snippet from yesterday's NY Times article : "At NetFlix, the online DVD rental company, for example, roughly two-thirds of the films rented were recommended to subscribers by...

Sunava Dutta, Program Manager in the Internet Explorer team posts : "I’m excited to mention that IE7 will support a scriptable native version of XMLHTTP. This can be instantiated using the same syntax across different browsers and decouples AJAX...

Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") is available for download . From the Expression team's new blog . " So, first, what is Expression? Microsoft Expression is a suite consisting of three products each intended for use mainly...

MSDN TV has some AJAX goodness to show off: "Nikhil Kothari provides a brief overview of ASP.NET "Atlas", a framework to build rich Web apps on top of ASP.NET 2.0. The demo shows an app that uses the new server controls from the December CTP to...

Chris from Touchstone : "The issue at hand is not how to get a user’s attention information (that’s easy) but rather how to help the user manage what their paying attention to across all the things they care about – both local and in the cloud....

If I came across a 'semantic web', what would it look like? Would I know it was semantic web just through my using it? What signs would I look for?

To provide full text or partial feeds, that is the question. Well, that's the question if your revenue model depends on online advertising: page views, CTRs and CPAs. In his latest podcast show, Steve Gillmor, a writer / blogger for ZDNet asked...

Star Wars, faithfully reproduced in ASCII . Via Brad Feld .

I asked two of the RSS industry's leading lights to join me for a call and share their perspective on the question of where Attention is going with respect to RSS feedreaders and aggregators: Nick Bradbury creator FeedDemon , part of Newsgator (Nick also...

I got Naked with a bunch of other people last night. That is to say I went to Naked Conversations ' first book launch party , by Microsoft's Robert Scoble and Shel Israel . In attendance was a venerable who's who of Seattle area bloggers and geeks...

If I'm blogging this , does that mean I'm evangelizing the evangelizing of evanglism?

Meet Microsoft Max on Channel 9, Via Robert Scoble .

Craig Barnes, founder of Attensa (RSS reader for Outlook and has a toolbar version for Firefox), posted on the subject of Attention yesterday. Not only that, but Craig has made it clear that the whole Attention data space is of strategic importance and...

If you: design, develop, test, architect, product manage, product plan or market: products or services that could be even loosely described as: feedreaders, RSS readers or aggregators and 'my' type services, then I recommend you read John Tropea's latest...

Danny's posted up a challenge for some xml freaks. He's pointed to a bunch of his Attention data collections (wishlists, foaf, blogroll, etc) and is handing out Bonus points for conversion to these into a single Attention file format in RDF: "Anyhow...

Scott Karp has been writing some some good stuff of late. His latest (in a series of 'Setting-the-Cat-Among-the-Pigeons-esque) post, he writes : " I’ve argued that if Media 2.0/New Media is based on Web 2.0 applications, it’s going to overwhelm...

Julien Couvreur has been working on something that sounds very, very good. "...I haven't been idle. I was working on AJAX-based web application with transparent support for disconnected operations. TiwyWiki is a prototype wiki that runs both...

I installed the 2.0 beta version of FeedDemon last night. I've been using FeedDemon since as my RSS feedreader for over 2 years now and just keeps getting better . Great job Nick! One thing that caught my attention in this latest release is the 'Feeds...

Tailrank is developing nicely. Kevin Burton is doing a great job at speedily developing the service and seems to be increasingly getting the attention it deserves. In TechCrunch's latest review of Tailrank, Michael Arrington points out a feature I...

First print , now radio . "The search advertising company purchased dMarc Broadcasting, a digital solutions provider for the radio industry, for $102 million cash and potentially as much as $1.136 billion over the next three years. Google announced...

anne 2.0 : "The problem I'd most like to solve as a technologist and as a blogger is information overload . When I moved beyond mom blogging into tech blogging I discovered an entire new ocean of information. Today I feel like a tow-in surfer at...

Two new blogs focused on the mobile space joined the Web 2.0 Workgroup today: Open Gardens and MobileCrunch (you can import all the Web 2.0 Workgroup blogs into your RSS reader using this OPML file ) Also today, S. Somasegar , VP of Microsoft Developer...