Alex Barnett's blog

The blog of Alex Barnett

16 Jan 2006

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    Infocard screencast

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    If digital identities are of interest to you, so should this quick screencast by Kim Cameron demo'ing Infocard - it's worth a download. Choose the second file to download (the 2.5 MB size file). "As a taste of upcoming MIX06 sessions, Kim Cameron...
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    Beginning of the Attention Engine race

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    Wow, I missed this the first time around... Megite is going letting me do what I've been asking Memeorandum (or enyone else that will listen) to let me do for ages - to pivot off my own OPML file. The feature isn't switched on for everyone yet, but...
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    Reading Lists (OPML) podcast: Danny Ayers and Adam Green

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    Last year Dave Winer started to push the idea of Reading Lists for RSS . More recently, the idea of Dynamic Reading Lists and Feed Grazing (or Grazing Lists / Glists) has been kicking around. Its likely that Reading Lists support will become a common...
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    My Del.icio.us bookmarks in my RSS feed

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    I've spliced my Del.icio.us bookmarks into my Feedburner generated RSS feed . If it annoys you, let me know. It is set to publish only once a day (if I've bookmarked anything, that is) so shouldn't be spammy. These are bookmarks I actually use...
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    The real 'meme' trackers are yet to be invented

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    The word 'memetracking' or ('meme tracker') has been used to describe services such as Memeorandum , Megit , Tailrank and Chuquet . I can't call them 'memetrackers'. I like them, they're useful sites and all that, but they aren't 'meme' trackers. ...
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    More Xbox team bloggers

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    Xbox's Major Nelson has links to more Xbox team bloggers : "When I started this blog over two years ago, no one in the Xbox product team was blogging. I launched this blog in 2004 after I joined the Xbox team as a way of sharing a little bit of...
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    Web 2.0 - fluff?

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    Fellow Web 2.0 Workgroup member Dion Hinchcliffe and two Microsoft architects Harry Pierson and Michael Platt have blogged about SPARK, a plannned series of high-level forums hosted by Microsoft on the topics of SOA, Software as a Service, Web 2.0, and...
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    More on the Windows RSS Platform

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    Last week, the Microsoft RSS team published Windows RSS Platform API documentation - note: is draft - (known as the Microsoft Feed APIs)...you can find this at MSDN . In today's post , program manager Walter VonKoch outlines how the Common Feed List...
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    (RSS + SSE) + OPML + Reading lists = Attention?

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    Steve Rubel has nice idea: "What I would love to see in the coming months is a tool that uses SSE and reading lists to implement the wonderful features in Stumbleupon right inside an RSS reader. Here's another way to picture it. What if users had...
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    Attention podcast : Attention with Steve Gillmor, Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett

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    When Joshua Porter and I started our non-formal podcasting efforts a while ago, we made list of the people we'd want to have on our 'show' and talk to. High on both our lists was Steve Gillmor . So we were thrilled when he accepted our invitation to...
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    Ajax and Virtual Earth tutorial

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    The Virtual Earth blog has posted some info on the first of a three part tutorial on Ajax and Virtual Earth . "Upon completing this simple tutorial you’ll have a mapping application built with the Virtual Earth map control that utilizes AJAX to...
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    'Imagining the Internet' and Information Overload

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    While driving to and from work today (including a detour for the ubiquitous drive-thru caffeine fix malarkey) I had the opportunity to listen to a presentation downloaded from IT Conversations called 'Imagining the Internet'. Loved it. The presentation...
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    Mash Me Up

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    When I heard this , I thought they were singing ‘Mash Me Up’. Selective hearing I suppose… Via the human aggregator .
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    State of the Attention Problem

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    Technorati's David Sifry has posted the latest of his regular updates providing a bunch of stats and analysis on the blogosphere's development. The bottom line is that the number of blogs created, according to Technorati, continues to double about...
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    My brand spanking new OPML blog

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    I've finally got my shiny new OPML blog up and running . It's powered using Dave Winer's OPML Editor . Not much to see yet - it's rough, but it's ready...I've been meaning to get this sorted for ages but had fun and games on my machines...am rolling...
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    The good guys lose

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    William, our four year son, summed up the dire result . "The good guys lose. The enemy wins." Congrats to the Steelers.
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    Go Seahawks!!!

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    er, when in Rome and all that...
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    Ajax Scribble application with ASP.NET Atlas

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    The Code Project has a good tutorial showing how to create an Ajax Scribble application with ASP.NET Atlas . Via Ajaxian . - Tags: ASP.NET , .NET , Ajax , Atlas
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    Welcome visitors

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    This last rainy week in Redmond has been sunnied by a bunch of welcome visitors. Some were were old friends and others became friends newly made. There was a Mini Geek Dinner last night. In attendance were out-of-towners Frank La Vigne , Paul Mooney...
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    Skype chats as RSS feeds

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    I love this. Jaanus, a Skype employee, listened to the Attention podcast I recorded with Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon and Kevin Burton of Tailrank . "At Skype, we’ve always been toying with the idea of attention management. You already see elements...
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    Solving Tag-Hell

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    Backup Brain recently highlighted one of the problems with the tagosphere - the 'which tag do I use' problem. I say 'one' of the problems, because there are at least three tagospheric problems that are creating a Tag-Hell: 1. When in content tagging...
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    There are 54,993,666,708,469,390,869,140,625 ways to construct a 10-machine-instruction program

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    Chris Jackson is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services. He doesn't blog that much, but when he does, it's a must-read feed for me. His blog is called ' Evolving the Software Organism ' and focuses on genetic programming. In this post on the...
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    Microsoft Mashup videos

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    John Musser over at Programmable Web has a bunch of links to some developer-focused videos covering Start.com gadgets (Live.com), MSN Search APIs, MSN Search Toolbar, Virtual Earth and some Atlas Ajax goodness. - Tags: MSN , APIs , Mashup...
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    new Web 2.0 Journal site

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    Dion Hinchcliffe, the Editor-in-Chief of the brand new Web 2.0 Journal site has posted his launch piece today. Congrats Dion!: "Though it's a complex and often subtle topic - and recognizing that Web 2.0 definitions vary across the community - we...
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    Windows RSS Platform = RSS everywhere

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    The IE blog posted some interesting RSS / Windows info this morning : "You might have seen or read about the RSS functionality in the user interface of IE7 Beta 2 Preview. There is a bit more to it then just letting users subscribe and read feeds...
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