March 2006 - Posts

10x10 - an amazing use of RSS
31 March 06 09:40 AM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html From their site: Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. Read More...
RSS in Outlook 2007 Q & A
30 March 06 01:33 PM | michaelaffronti | 11 Comments   
Many of you have posted great comments and questions on our RSS work. I wanted to take a few minutes to answer some of them. If you have any more please let me know. Is there any way to import feeds from OPML into Outlook 12? Yes, it's built right into Read More...
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Check out Bill & Kurt's keynote @ the MS Office Developers Conference
16 March 06 04:30 PM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
Bill Gates and Kurt DelBene will be keynoting at the Microsoft Office Developes Conference on Tuesday, March 21st here in Redmond, WA. It's going to be an exciting presentation that focuses on the 2007 Office system and the major investments made in all Read More...
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Gettin' crafty with reading RSS feeds
09 March 06 09:18 AM | michaelaffronti | 10 Comments   
There are several cool ways you leverage Outlook's folder management and search infrastructure to improve the way you view RSS feeds inside the application. They range from the simple, like creating subfolders, to the complex, like using search folders Read More...
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The new RSS icon in Outlook
01 March 06 03:40 PM | michaelaffronti | 6 Comments   
As I posted about earlier this year, the IE RSS team adopted the Firefox RSS icon with the full support of the Mozilla team. Outlook also signed on for using the new icon in our RSS support, and I've got some screenshots of the icons in action inside Read More...
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