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March 2006 - Posts

Web 2.0 == Collective Intelligence?

Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:09 PM by joemorel

The girl that used to live in my place never changed her address for her Newsweek subscription, so I get Newsweek now. There’s nothing novel in the story linked to below, except that it’s been interesting to watch these new sites on the web ( Flickr , Read More...

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Filed under: Forums

Channel9 Video on VS Power Toys Team

Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:03 AM by joemorel

I didn't want to be the last one on my team to the blogging party today about mentioning that our team finally got its video posted to Channel9, but, hey, I had a root canal today. Take it easy on me. :) Check out the video here: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=177200 Read More...

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Managing My Music: What's Really Important?

Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 2:25 AM by joemorel

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I had switched to a subscription-based music service (Yahoo! Music Unlimited) from my typical setup of iPod + iTunes that I had been using for a few years. During those few years that I used iTunes, I collected a Read More...

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Filed under: Not Work, Windows Media Player

Tidbit to Start the Week: Google PageRanks

Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 5:07 PM by joemorel

I was a bit bored last night and started going to some common websites just to see what the Google PageRanks were (yes, I have Google Toolbar installed on my home machine.) I found that my MSN Spaces blog ( http://spaces.msn.com/moreljoe ) has a PageRank Read More...

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Filed under: Not Work

Forum Content: What is Okay to Delete?

Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 5:06 PM by joemorel

As early adopters of the new forum platform that the Microsoft.com team is developing at Microsoft, I spend quite a bit of time giving advice and guidance to other teams that are getting started on their own forums. Outside of the obvious technical support Read More...

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You Can't Sell Pure Technology

Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:57 AM by joemorel

Last year at this time, I was wrapping up a Masters program over at good ole Case Western Reserve University in “Engineering and Management”…a program that was really geared around Technology Entrepreneurship. In the program, they spent quite a bit of Read More...

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Filed under: Microsoft

Why I Sold My iPod

Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:20 PM by joemorel

Outside of the online communities space, one of my biggest passions is music and home entertainment. Not just electronics and stuff…I actually minored in music in college, have played piano since I was four, and have even been in a couple of performances Read More...

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Filed under: Not Work, Windows Media Player

Working in a Company That's Over 60,000 Strong

Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 7:49 PM by joemorel

What's it like working for a company the size of Microsoft? Some thoughts from a recent college hire... Read More...

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Filed under: Microsoft

TFS Administration Tool Updated to Support RC of TFS

Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:33 PM by joemorel

As I blogged about on the DDCPX Blog ... "Updated binaries have been posted on GotDotNet for the TFS Administration Tool, making the tool compatible with the most recent version of Team Foundation Server (the Release Candidate). The new release also fixes Read More...