Jensen Harris has posted his first post in a series of, er, posts relating to the new Office UI . "...the roots of the early Microsoft Office programs were rooted in the Mac and of course, the user interface reflected that. As the Mac's first...

Frankie Fresh points to DJ Ballmer Fresh . (Er, when they said 'web mash-ups' , I don't think this is what they meant...)

Philip Richardson, you asked for it .

I like this new simple matrix / interface into the Web 2.0 APIs directory John Mussey of ProgrammableWeb has put together. (I blogged the directory couple of weeks back ). One thought: this format works well if you have two axes (two APIs recombined...

Press release at PR Newswire announces MSN's new paid-search service, MSN adCenter: "NEW YORK, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of the MSN(R) Information Services & Merchant Platform division, opened...

Nicholas Carr shares his most recent thoughts regarding his 'Does IT Matter?' essay and book. Carr's answer to his own question has for sometime been an emphatic 'no!' . His answers has changed though... maybe he listened to Bob Metcalfe? Anyway, s eems...

Tim Yang tells it how it is - the real top 10 tips for anonymous blogging: "As many of you know, Reporters without Borders released a PDF handbook about blogging for dissident bloggers . Actually a lot of it also deals with making a good blog...

Noticed something this morning. Let me try to explain.... Mary Jo Foley (of Microsoft Watch ) is carrying ads in her RSS feed (in fact this is provided via ZiffDavis.com - MW is a ZD company)) - no news there I think. What's funny is that her RSS feed...

Apparently I'm writing this for therapy .

Microsoft is celebrating its 30th anniversary at the company’s annual meeting today (sadly I'll not be there - in Paris - but will try to view the internal webcast). Red Herring "The annual meeting at Safeco Field in Seattle is expected to draw...

John Udell : " Yesterday I bumped into Amar Gandhi, a program manager on the IE7 team who is working on what Microsoft has been calling the "RSS platform" in Vista, but which I'd simply call a new system service. We found a quiet room and I...

IT Conversations has uploaded a 17 min (mp3) interview with usability guru Jakob Nielsen .

Channel 9 has a video interview with one of the inventors of DHTML, Scott's Isaacs : " ...He is one of Microsoft's smartest Web developers and built a framework that's being used on Start.com, the future Hotmail, and other places like the new gadgets...

Tim O'Reilly posted this great Web 2.0 meme map of over at Flickr . (via Web 2.0 Show ) The text in the middle box is interesting. In the spirit of the mash-up (or is it 'mash up'?), I've taken the liberty of adding Microsoft related links to these...

Andrew Lampert points out more RSS exponential trends: "TechCrunch is reporting on the recently released Feedburner statistics that show the growth of Feedburner subscribers and managed feeds over the last 18 months. Both show clearly exponential...

My first 'real' interview was published yesterday , for Digital Web Magazine . My victim was Sarah Horton (thanks Sarah! ), author of Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Designers (published in July). "Digital Web Magazine catches...

You've heard of Virtual Earth hacks and Amazon hacks . Well, welcome to Coffee 2.0 and the Coffee machine hacks (and before you say it, no, we're not talking java...). Via Digg (love this comment on the Digg post: "This is different then the soda...

Dare Obasanjo : "Web 2.0 isn't about screenscraping. Turning the Web into an online platform isn't about legitimizing bad practices from the early days of the Web. Screen scraping needs to die a horrible death. Web APIs and Web feeds are the...

USB for you car . "Volkswagen, Europe's biggest automaker, is thus making the USB connection an option on its Golf, Golf Plus and Touran models in December and on remaining models next year. Just plug your device into a built-in console in the...

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine . who wrote the original The Long Tail acticle, has highlighted my RSS / Longtail post on his blog . "Alex Barnett does some analysis on his blog traffic and discovers that the RSS feed flattens...

Nick Bradbury created the application that has transformed my internet-use behaviour - FeedDemon (RSS / feed reader). Nick has recently gone through some tough times and has shared his journey on his blog. I find his openess humbling. He's just had...

What is the Amazon Web Service (AWS)? From Amazon's AWS site (now rebranded Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS)): "exposes Amazon’s product data and E-Commerce functionality allowing developers, Web site owners and merchants to leverage the data and...

Phil Richardson points to a video of t he Bill Gates with Napoleon Dynamite in this spoof video from PDC 2005 .

I have a personal copy of Digital Image Suite 2006 and use almost daily. It has a whole bunch of editing features for pics and the library-type functionality for quick viewing (including video), organizing and sorting. Why am I telling you this random...

Friday night, waiting for flight from Seattle airport - on my way to London. Been a manic, manic week, but all good. Got round to my RSS reader just now (actually experienced RSS withdrawal symptoms the last 36 hours). Felt a like a little...