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Trust Microsoft with Claimspace (my response pending)
Ted Haeger , aka ReverendTed of Bungee Labs (purveyors of the most kill-killski development toolkit for Web 2.0 developers, in the world), just published a thought provoking blog post asking his readers: Can we...? Trust Microsoft with Claimspace Ted Read More...
Posted 23 May 07 05:11 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Claimspace, a Long Tail Recognition System
Robert Rebholz is not only my boss*, he is also my muse, ideological sparring partner, alter ego, and mentor. Bob is possesed by a special kind of genius, with a sort of Jeffersonian breadth and intensity that makes it a pleasure and honor to collaborate Read More...
Posted 17 May 07 08:56 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Tagspace, Meet Claimspace
In early June, we will launch a new social software service for technical professionals called Claimspace (codename, "Rapport"), which will join Tagspace , Blogs , and Forums as the newest member of the Microsoft.Community family . Our development lead, Read More...
Posted 19 April 07 01:11 by KorbyP | 22 Comments   
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Alexbarn Leaves Microsoft...ARGH!
With a farewell quote from the greatest American writer of all time, my friend, neighbor, and idea-mate, Alex Barnett has announced that he is leaving Microsoft and Redmond to join a startup in Utah: Bungee Labs. [Lump_in_throat]. If they had any idea Read More...
Posted 31 March 07 03:32 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Dinner Party Retrospective -- Blaukraut and Saffron Cream
My holiday dinner party went pretty well, by all accounts. Dinner was a little late in coming due to the amazing length of time required to bake a 5lb slab of sea bass at 350F. None of my guests seemed to mind, however. There were plenty of pupus and Read More...
Posted 26 December 06 11:56 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Korby's 2006 Holiday Dinner Party
For the first time in a couple of years, I've decided to host a holiday dinner party for a few of my best friends, at my home in Redmond. For the sake of posterity and to give you some ideas for holiday meals you might want to prepare for your friends Read More...
Posted 21 December 06 12:54 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Steve Ballmer a Bell Ringer for Christmas?
I can imagine Microsoft's venerable CEO, Steve Ballmer, ringing bells for the Salvation Army in front of some suburban grocery store. I can picture him with a pair of white gloves, energetically ringing in a Christmas concert. But I can DEFINITELY see Read More...
Posted 29 November 06 01:54 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Event: Overlake Neighborhood Planning Open House
If you live or work in Overlake and you want to help define how it gets developed over the next 20 years, I encourage you to attend this event. Meeting place is right next door to the Microsoft Company Store on 148th Ave NE. I'll be there 'cause this Read More...
Posted 09 November 06 01:51 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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"Tagspace" Beta
AJAX vs. Atlas ASP.NET Atlas ATOM C# C++ CodePlex coolgadgets database Dave Morehouse FoxPro Huong Nguyen J# LINQ Marshall Lin MSO .NET .NET2.0 PERL.NET Rapport REST RESTful RSS Ruby Sharepoint socialsoftware tagging Tagspace Taylor Parsons VB.NET VFP Read More...
Posted 08 November 06 03:40 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Who Stole Rob Caron?
Like tens of thousands of other people, I am an avid and daily reader of my good friend Rob Caron's VSTS blog . He is way plugged in, clearly. But Rob is more than that. He is a bloguoso. Lately however, Rob hasn't seemed himself. As possibly occurred Read More...
Posted 26 July 06 02:33 by KorbyP | 4 Comments   
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2006 Microsoft Company Picnic, Honey did you pack the confirmation email?
Fellow Microsoft Employees (and anyone else who shares my love of the Dilbertesque absurditities of corporate life): If you’re planning to go to the MSPicnic this weekend, PRINT YOUR PICNIC CONFIRMATION EMAIL NOW! The MSPicnic Miscalculation The 2006 Read More...
Posted 21 July 06 04:29 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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Jumping Ship to the MS Serendipity
Over the past few weeks, it has become increasingly apparent that CodePlex is pointed in the right direction, proceeding under its own [community-driven] power, and certain to achieve its destination, with or without a full time product manager: me. Cap'n Read More...
Posted 17 July 06 06:18 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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CodePlex.com Customer Evangelism at TechEd 2006
On my flight from Seattle to Boston, early yesterday morning, I cracked open a new book: Creating Customer Evangelists , by Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell . Whether you're a project manager, developer, executive, journalist, architect, designer, writer, Read More...
Posted 12 June 06 02:53 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Jim Newkirk Announces CodePlex
Over the last year, I found myself working on an another exciting [sigh] v1 product [sigh] at Microsoft [sigh] with an amazingly talented and passionate team [sigh] . As a born blogger, there are few things more difficult than keeping a big, fat, exciting Read More...
Posted 16 May 06 09:17 by KorbyP | 4 Comments   
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Social Computing Symposium: Watch it Live
SCS2006 ( agenda and participants ) is being streamed in near realtime to the Web, today and tomorrow, Monday, May 8-9. Watch it Live As you watch, you can chat with the participants, including me at irc.freenode.net/scs2006: a fascinating exercise. To Read More...
Posted 08 May 06 10:00 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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