Artificial Ignorance - the Anand Iyer chronicles

Mario , I know this is long, long overdue, but thank you for this ( Is Community Evangelism the job of the future? (Updated) ) . I'm truly honored to have made the cut. I probably haven't said this enough, but I really find your blog to be really informational...

It's no secret that I heart Yelp . Yelp is right up there as one of my favoritest social networks that provides one of the most brilliant, most useful services around. Just the other day, I was chatting with a friend and telling him how I thought that...

warning : adult language Thanks to the GD for this . " ai " Technorati Tags: powerthirst

At OSCON this week, we will be unveiling the covers on a new website - Open Source at Microsoft . The website's focus is to highlight our commitment to OSS and partnership with the OSS community. After the (what was supposed to be mini) project Jeff Atwood...

Through Daniel's pownce (yeah, pownce is now a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb and a pronoun), I hear that Pownce APIs are in the works . I can't wait to write something for my Blackjack . " ai " Technorati Tags: pownce , daniel burka , pownce api...

You know things have gone horribly wrong when you see this when you try to get to Craigslist : Here's the scoop, courtesy Techdirt : Blame Murphy's Law, Excessive Hubris For Blackouts In SF " ai " Technorati Tags: craigslist , power outage san francisco...

For the first time during my time here at the MS SF offices , we had several multiple power outages this afternoon . All during the time we were hosting Lunch 2.0 . Hilarious! Anyhow, I wanted to thank those of you who made it out here. Hope you enjoyed...

Lunch 2.0 is coming back to Microsoft tomorrow ( upcoming event info ). My apologies for not blogging about it sooner - literally minutes after Terry Chay put the post up on the Lunch 2.0 blog and I setup the event info on upcoming , we had peaked our...

You may have heard of IronRuby - a shared source implementation of Ruby that runs on top of the .NET. IronRuby is implemented on top of what we're calling the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) , which runs on top of the .NET and provides support for dynamic...

Sorry, I know there's been iPhone overkill in the blogosphere over the last few weeks... Last week I met up with some old friends and for obvious reasons the conversation turned to the iPhone. One of my friends went on to talk about the auto-correcting...

Thanks to Kevin R , I'm finally on Pownce. Pownce with me ... now playing in my head : " can i get a ... ", " jay-z " " ai " Technorati tags: pownce , artificialignorance , digg

It was not too long ago that Conan had this little iPhone parody : After reading about the world's simplest iPhone application on Mashable today, I'm thinking that all the uses mentioned in Conan's parody are probably not that far off. Fine, maybe using...

now playing in my head : " destiny " by " zero 7 " Trip Hop 's growing on me. " ai " Technorati tags: destiny , zero 7 , trip hop

Dear Jeremy , this summer, I'd like some Yelp APIs, please. With the kind of data that Yelp has available, by exposing some APIs, you can help us create some wicked cool mashups (on Popfly ). Maybe a Vista gadget or two to keep track of stuff easier on...

You know you've got issues when you're typing up an email, and you want to really type the words " silver lining " but instead you end up typing " silverlight " (because your fingers are used to typing silverlight 800 million times a day). In fact, as...

Want to learn more about Popfly ? Or Windows Live Services ? Come hear Scott Mauvais and I speak at MashupCamp (actually Mashup U ) next week. I believe we're slated to speak on 7/16 (could change to 7/17). Sign up now ! " ai " Technorati tags: popfly...

now playing in my head : " speeding cars ", by " Imogen Heap " I heart Imogen Heap. " ai " Technorati tags: speeding cars , imogen heap , indie

I remember my first few weeks as a software developer at Cisco. I'd joined one of the oldest teams at Cisco and the team comprised of people who had been with the company for 10 or 15 years. I was interacting with a lot of these old-timers on a regular...

playing in my head : " don't stop believin' ", Journey Ughh... I hate that most of the songs on Imeem have been reduced to 30 second previews . Makes sense from a legal standpoint, I guess. " ai " Technorati tags: imeem , journey , dont stop believin

It's no secret that I'm an event whore (wouldn't eventwhore.com be a great event site? Anyhow, I digress) I often get asked how people can keep track of what events are happening in Northern California. Not just Microsoft events , but others as well,...

David Recordon , Artur Bergman and Anand Iyer talk about OpenID, the iPhone, iPhoneDevCamp among other things : http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=323234 " ai " PS: Thanks to my good friend and co-worker, the one and only, Tim Heuer , for helping...

Chris Messina and Anand Iyer talk about BarCamp , iPhones, etc : http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=323231 " ai " PS: Thanks to my good friend and co-worker, the one and only, Tim Heuer , for helping post this to C9 . :) Technorati...

Patrick Scoble and Anand Iyer talk about Patrick's experience of buying the iPhone, what he intends to do with it, and why he's at iPhoneDevCamp : http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=323230 (picture courtesy tow_adam ) " ai " PS: Thanks to my...

Today at iPhoneDevCamp , I chatted with Chris Messina to get his thoughts on possibly doing a SilverlightDevCamp. Chris is hoping the *DevCamp series will take off : "I like the idea of a productive and educational DevCamp model and would like to see...

I just spent some time chatting with Kris Tate (finally) about Zooomr and some issues he has been seeing with IE. I haven't had the chance to sit down and chat with him before, but I'm thoroughly impressed with his passion for Zooomr. Kris showed me some...