Oh no, so it's happening again ( again , again , again )...! And yes, it is an echo chamber . - Update : Bah! Algorithms must have been updated (...de human editor won't bite twice ). Speaking of which...

Via Postbubble I came across standpedia . It is provided by the same team who developed standpoint . I've just had a play with standpedia and I like it. Rather than try to explain what it does , here is a pic of what I created at standpedia: ...

Microsoft's RSS team blog has this news . " IE7 Beta 3 is here ! We’ve snuck in some goodies in the feed reading user experience based on your Beta 2 feedback" The post provides details on the new RSS-related features. More feedback sought. ...

Thanks to Sara h Ford for pointing out this interview on video (on Port25) with Korby Parnell explaining some of the background behind CodePlex , a new portal for collaborative software development & for sharing source code. Hey Dana :-) !

TechCrunch outlines some of the features in a new product out there developed called ConnectBeam . It was just matter of time before someone ran with the Tagging behind the firewall idea. From the page describing ConnetBeam's benefits: Bookmark...

eWeek : " Q&A: Corey Thomas, the group product manager for SQL Server, explains why Microsoft decided not to pursue the previously planned separate delivery of WinFS."

Good to see LibraryThing getting a nice write up in the WSJ (via techmeme ) I've mentioned the service before as a good example of how you can get the data out that you put in . This is my profile on the site and a page of my catalog . As part of...

Quentin Clark has posted an update to the WinFS update and answers some of the questions that came since the post on Friday . It's a Q & A format to help clarify some of the speculation flying around over the weekend and today . And yes, the...

<off-topic. if you're looking for intelligent commentary on technological issues of the day, you're at the wrong place. please move on.> From time to time something catches my eye that sets me off down a complete waste of time. Like this . ...

Australia was robbed . Awful. (I mean it).

This is no ordinary blog post . It has embeded microformat content, but you won't see it. This is the same page rendered in a 'microcontent viewer' created by Jason Kolb , so now the microformat content renders in the browser. You can either hit...

How cool is this? Carter Maslan points to the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK : "The SDK is organized by the things you want to do , and each of those things is correlated to a live running sample, source code, and reference documentation - all one...

Earlier this month I mentioned that at the Content 2.0 event I asked LastFMs product manager, Matthew Ogle about the ability to export my data out of the system so it could be plugged into another. After all, the music I listen to, for how long and when...

Yesterday Mike Champion (on XML team in Data Programmability) wrote up a post answering the question: 'Why does the world need another XML API?' The question is a summary of some the feedback we've heard regarding XLinq LINQ to XML . Mike explains...

In case you missed it, Somasegar (Microsoft's VP of Developer Division) blogged today about some of the LINQ and ADO.NET innovations planned for the next version of Visual Studio (Orcas). It's getting some attention already... Techworld : ...

Matt Augustine (works in Ray Ozzie's Concept Development Team) presented a demo at the Supernova 2006 conference in the "Decentralizing Data" workshop, moderated by Tantek Celik . The demo, available here as a screencast , shows how to leverage Live...

One of the joys of moving to this part of the world is the traffic. Now, everything is relative, and of course the Seattle area isn't free of jams, but it's a million miles (well, about 4799 actually) from the nightmare that is London. I live and work...

Via Frank La Vigne - if you're into AIs and help / KB systems here is just the challenge for you (devs and ISVs from around the world are eligable, not just US, which is nice...) "Robots or "BOTs", are software programs that you can add to MSN®...

30 days to make $1m. From zero, nada, zilch. Well, $100, a cell phone and a one way ticket to New York City. Think the opposite of Brewster's Millions . Welcome to Remi Frazier's Million Dollar Destiny : "...In one month, I will come...

Some cool demos at On 10 of the new Live Messenger . Chris has some more great feedback for our product teams. Don Dodge sees Live Messenger as further evidence of Ray Ozzie's infuence. AMCP Tech blog agrees . Jesse asks the team about plugins,...

Well, the 43rd comment to come in on this post of mine grumbling about Nameplanet's customer service seems to be good news for Nameplanet customers: "Jipie! Nameplanet has been taken over by Tucows! Although they announce not to make any changes...

This is a story about spam, the trademarking of SPAM, a product that tackles spam and a SPiced hAM company that was unavailable to talk about SPAM . - Tags: Spam

Lucky Shawn. There I was feeling all important by meeting Bill last week for a total of 10 seconds , and here is Shawn Morrissey having a proper meeting with Ray Ozzie and Bill on the topic of calendaring in Vista and Office 2007 . I wish I could tell...

I lost my shaving stuff somewhere between London and Seattle last week. So I went off to the local shop and was confronted by an array of choice. I've been a Gillette 'man' for as long as I can remember shaving. So when I looked at the Gillette shelf...

After the live webcast breaking the news that Bill's transition will complete in July 2006, there was an internal meeting (called 'Townhall meetings) with Bill explaining to Microsoft employees the reasons behind his decision and the plans moving forward...