Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer

Last week, I represented my group withiin Microsoft (Microsoft.com Community & Collaborative Development) along with my colleague, Betsy Aoki at the annual Microsoft TechEd Conference for software developers and IT Pros in Amsterdam, Netherlands....

Thanks to the Exchange Team , 90-95% of spam never sees the light of my Inbox. Of the few per day that make it through: crafty viagra ads, begging sons of wealthy African royalty, and ambitious Russian college grads, I give them little more than a glace...

I'm blogging to you live from the RAI Congrescentrum in Amsterdam, Netherlands where Ashwin Karuhatty and Brian Randall are introducing European developers and IT professionals to Visual Studio Team Foundation version control (or source control, if you...

Establishing a sustainable work-party-sleep balance during TechEd 2005 Europe in Amsterdam proved more difficult than I imagined. Friday was little different from previous days: I worked at the convention center for twelve hours attending sessions...

This just in: my fellow Planning Commissioner, Kim Allen has decided to run for Redmond City Council! I have been honored to know and work with Commissioner Allen for close to two years and I recommend her without hesitation. She is the first candidate...

This post by Eric Lippert is pretty high on my list: Riddle me this, Google . I've been collecting interesting query keyword stringss since I began blogging in 2003. Here are a few of my more interesting search referrals in the last 6 months: Amsterdam...

If you are a Redmond soccer mom who is annoyed that your fellow soccer moms and kids are cracking their laptops during games to check their email or browse the Web, I did not do this. If you are a committed geek, like Josh or Gretchen Ledgard , whose...

You’ve tried every possible Boolean combination of four simple friggin’ keywords. You’ve scanned 176 Web pages. It’s CRAZY! Don’t despair! It’s not your fault. It’s my fault and I haven’t given up on you yet. Note: If you’re having a help emergency please...

I'm sitting in a "chalk talk" about blogging for IT pros, which is being led by Eileen Brown . She just showed referrals in Community Server for a past post that has attracted 171,000+ Web Views and 106 comments. To put that in perspective, Web views...

I touched down in lovely Amsterdam.nl (their new PR slogan is i am sterdam) a few hours ago, followed orange vested nederlanders to big, white buses festooned with tiny TechEd signs, which I rode from Schiphol Airport to the RAI Convention Center, stumbled...

Blogging at Microsoft – Betsy Aoki RAI Congrescentrum Forum, Amsterdam Netherlands, 14.45 on 6 July 2005 Disclaimer: these are rough, rough notes. Betsy Begins: "I'm here to tell you about an intranet blogging mechanism for your folks to blog and share...

Ich. After a brilliant presentation last night on Visual Studio Team Foundation extensibility (notes coming) at TechEd Europe 2005 , Richard Hundhausen ( upcoming book link ) and I joined a group of German and nederlanders guys at the floating Chinese...

I'm sitting in a talk for Regional Directors in the Amsterdam RAI by BJ Holtgrewe, who is a lead developer evangelist at Microsoft. These are rough notes... BJ says he was the best VB6 programmers in the world. ;-) Then, he went away to work at Microsoft...

Rob Caron reports that the VPC of VSTS Beta 2 is now available on the MSDN Subscriber Download Center. This is the same image that we handed out on DVD at TechEd US and Europe. If you want to evaluate this soon to be released toolset for your development...

Please join me in welcoming Redmond City Councilmember, John Resha [ subscribe ] to the blogosphere and MSN Spaces. John is the first of his kind in Redmond: a blogger/councilmember. John Resha is a fist-term Redmond councilmember with a wealth of public...

My esteemed compadre, Jim released version 0.2 of an nUnit converter for Visual Studio Team System last week to gotdotnet workspaces. Check it out at: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/nunitaddons . If you have applied or plan to apply to join the workspace...