Randy Holloway at Microsoft

Clay has posted another great essay , this one on small scale software systems targeted at specific user groups with narrow purposes. Clay refers to these apps as "situated software". Great read.

Blogs are screwing up internet search , period .

This was seen on Mark's blog earlier this week: YOUR EGO MUST BE AT LEAST THIS BIG TO START A BLOG That just about says it all, doesn't it?

Just when you thought TinyURL was cool, now you can take a look at HugeURL and decide which is better. [Via Dennis Cheung ]

In my comments , Kevin replies to my questions and indicates that he'll try to get more information on the attendee list. Thanks Kevin, your answers are appreciated. Also, I think your comment on Google and their “research” efforts is dead...

Kevin Schofield writes about the upcoming Social Computing Research Symposium at Microsoft Research, which Scoble has mentioned also . In looking at the list of attendees , I was surprised to not see any attendees from Google, Six Apart, or UserLand....

According to InternetNews , Microsoft is "trolling" for users for Visual Studio 2005 (aka Whidbey).

Brad Wilson is launching a new site with articles on .NET development at http://www.dotnetdevs.com . I look forward to personally contributing to the site in the near future; it is definitely worth your attention. Subscribed!

Mike G., a person I respect tremendously, slams Scoble for his comments on the Longhorn UI . I think I'm somewhere in the middle of this discussion. While I do tire a little of all of this Longhorn UI discussion , I do think that the big breakthroughs...

This weblog is now the number one result on Google for the search term 'software compatibility problems' . Gee, thanks.

Miguel's post 'Mono Meeting in Boston' goes through the rationale for selecting Mono as a development platform versus using Java. Interesting read, particularly the portions describing Novell's process for technology selection on internal projects.

Tim Bray has an excellent and thoughtful post on why he chose to work at Sun Micrososystems . Best of luck to Tim in his new endeavor. UPDATE- I received a comment that Bray's assessment of .NET is inaccurate. I think that his views on .NET represent...

News.com : "Microsoft sees its near-term future as a series of "waves" of software that are key to its growth over the next couple of years. But with those waves slow to reach shore, the company--and its customers--may feel like they're caught in a riptide...

Another great post by Mary Jo on Jim Allchin's comments on the Longhorn UI.

I know that everyone has experience with poor search results, but this one is downright ridiculous. When looking at my referrers recently, I found that if you search MSN for the terms Longhorn release date , this site is the number one result. What a...