March 2005 - Posts

• The Universal Inbox

  Bloglines just published a new press release entitled Bloglines is First to Go Beyond the Blog with Unique-to-Me Info Updates which is excerpted below Oakland, CA -- March 30, 2005 -- Ask Jeeves®, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASKJ), today announced that Bloglines™ (www.bloglines.com), Read More... Posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:46 AM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• Passport Renaming: Changing the email address associated with an MSN Space or MSN Messenger account

  MSN services such as MSN Spaces and MSN Messenger require one to create a Passport account to use them. Passport requires the use of an email address which is used as the login name of the user. However as time progresses people often have to change email Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:49 AM by DareObasanjo | 8 Comments

• SOA, AJAX and REST: The Software Industry Devolves into the Fashion Industry

  Ever since the article Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications unleashed itself on the Web I've seen the cacophony of hype surrounding Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (aka AJAX reach thunderous levels. The introduction to the essay already should make Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:46 AM by DareObasanjo | 10 Comments

• MSN Messenger Buddy List Limit Doubled

  Last night, we put the finishing touches on an upgrade to the server-side of MSN Messenger . The maximum size of a buddy list has been increased from 150 to 300. Enjoy. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:07 AM by DareObasanjo | 8 Comments

• Find Out More About MSN's Web-based RSS Aggregator at Start.com

  Steve Rider, one of the great folks behind start.com , has started a category on his blog devoted to the site. His first post discusses some of the changes they've made to the site in the past week. He writes As soon as I finish this post I'll be digging Read More... Posted Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:09 PM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Odeo -- Podcasting for Everyone

  These are my notes from the Odeo -- Podcasting for Everyone session by Evan Williams . Evan Williams was the founder of Blogger and Odeo is his new venture. Just as in his post How Odeo Happened Evan likens podcasting to audioblogging and jokingly states Read More... Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 2:25 PM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Introducing Google Code

  This was a late breaking session that was announced shortly after The Long Tail: Conversation with Chris Anderson and Joe Kraus . Unfortunately, I didn't take my tablet PC with me to the long tail session so I don't have any notes from it. Anyway, back Read More... Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 1:08 PM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Introduction to Yahoo! Search Web Services

  These are my notes on Introduction to Yahoo! Search Web Services session by Jeremy D. Zawodny The Yahoo! Search web services are available on the Yahoo! Search Developer Network(YSDN) site. YSDN launched by providing web services that allow applications Read More... Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 12:41 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: "Just" Use HTTP

  These are my notes from the "Just" Use HTTP session by Sam Ruby The slides for this presentation are available. No summary can do proper justice to this presentation so I'd suggest viewing the slides. Sam's talk focuses on the various gotchas facing developers Read More... Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:19 PM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Building a New Web Service at Google

  These are my notes on the Building a New Web Service at Google session by Nelson Minar Nelson Minar gave a talk about the issues he encountered while shipping the Adwords API . The slides for the talk are available online. I found this talk the most useful Read More... Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:57 AM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: From the Labs: Google Labs

  These are my notes on the From the Labs: Google Labs session by Peter Norvig, Ph.D. Peter started off by pointing out that since Google hires Ph.D's in their regular developer positions they often end up treating their developers as researchers while Read More... Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:02 AM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: From the Labs: Yahoo! Research Labs

  These are my notes on the From the Labs: Yahoo! Research Labs session by Gary William Flake . Yahoo! has two research sites, Yahoo! Next and Yahoo! Research Labs . The Yahoo! Next site has links to betas of products that will eventually become products Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:29 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: From the Labs: Microsoft Research

  These are my notes on the From the Labs: Microsoft Research session by Richard F. Rashid, Ph.D. Rick decided that in the spirit of ETech, he would focus on Microsoft Research projects that were unlikely to be productized in the conventional sense. The Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:30 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Vertical Search and A9

  These are my notes in the Vertical Search and A9 by Jeff Bezos . The core idea behind this talk was powerful yet simple. Jeff Bezos started of by talking about vertical search. In certain cases, specialized search engines can provide better results than Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:26 AM by DareObasanjo | 2 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Remixing Technology at Applied Minds

  These are my notes on the Remixing Technology at Applied Minds session by W. Daniel Hillis . This was a presentation by one of the key folks at Applied Minds . It seems they dabble in everything from software to robots. There was an initial demo showing Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:41 AM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: The App is the API: Building and Surviving Remixable Applications

  These are my notes on the The App is the API: Building and Surviving Remixable Applications by Mike Shaver . I believe I heard it announced that the original speaker couldn't make it and the person who gave the talk was a stand in. This was one of the Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 6:18 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Web Services as a Strategy for Startups: Opening Up and Letting Go

  These are my notes on the Web Services as a Strategy for Startups: Opening Up and Letting Go by Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson . This was one of the 15 minute keynotes (aka high order bits). The talk was about Flickr and its API. I came towards Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:55 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• ETech 2005 Trip Report: Build Contentcentric Applications on RSS, Atom, and the Atom API

  These are my notes on the Build Contentcentric Applications on RSS, Atom, and the Atom API session by Ben Hammersley . This was a 3.5 hour tutorial session [which actually only lasted 2.5 hours]. At the beginning, Ben was warned the audience that the Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:40 PM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• MSN Prototypes Web-based RSS Reader and Other Interesting Stuff

  A bunch of folks at work have been prototyping a server-side RSS reader at http://www.start.com/1/ . This isn't a final product but instead is intended to show people some of the ideas we at MSN are exploring around providing a rich experience around Read More... Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:43 PM by DareObasanjo | 7 Comments

• MSN Developer Network?

  Yesterday, in a meeting to hash out some of the details of MSN Spaces API an interesting question came up. So far I've been focused on the technical details of the API (what methods should we have? what protocol should it use? etc) as well as the scheduling Read More... Posted Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:51 AM by DareObasanjo | 6 Comments

• The Sorry State of Affairs in Weblog APIs

  In his post Maybe a better posting api is needed James Robertson writes I've had harsh words to say about Atom in the past, but that was mostly over the feed format. I haven't looked at the posting API yet - maybe I should. The Blogger API and the MetaqWebLog Read More... Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:21 AM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• Integrating Instant Messaging and Email: Been There, Done That

  In the article entitled Wonder Why MSN Didn't Think of This? Mary Jo Foley writes Or, maybe it has but just has yet to announce it…. On Monday, AOL announced a beta of AIM Sync, a tool that effectively turns Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client into a massive Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:31 AM by DareObasanjo | 5 Comments