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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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Big in Japan
Recently, I attended the Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) Attendee Party (thanks, Sean!) at the wonderful Boeing Museum of Flight , in Seattle, with my partner Dave Morehouse . Our Mission Find, gather requirements for, and validate our social Read More...
Posted 28 March 07 10:23 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Randomization Works! Watch this...
For my innaugural post of 2007*, I decided to wait for the Chinese New Year. Hey, why not? I have also decided to do something new: Randomize. Occasionally, I send short "inspirational" videos to my teams in an often vain and frequently futile attempt Read More...
Posted 21 February 07 06:25 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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Tracking Down the "Ping Meme"
At Seattle MindCamp 3.0 , this saturday, Scott Berkun and Adam Loving will host the second annual " Good Thing Rapid Discovery Slam ", a 45 minute show-n-tell for geeks. The first slam, at MindCamp 2.0 featured the reading of an Emily Dickinson poem, Read More...
Posted 10 November 06 12:13 by KorbyP | 4 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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Extro Version
Who do you listen to? Who do you answer to? Your boss or your boss' boss? Dave Morehouse , my friend and (currently only) peer, has the "right" answer, I think: customers. If you are interested in collaborative tagging, social bookmarking, folksonomies, Read More...
Posted 02 August 06 11:46 by KorbyP | 0 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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Capitalizing on Email Exhaustion
In my last post , I lamented email overload and its effects upon me and presumably, many of my co-workers and friends. Did I mention that I LOVE Microsoft? I am a diehard Microsoft customer, fan, employee, and shareholder. I do not read Mini-Microsoft Read More...
Posted 25 July 06 03:54 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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