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February 2004 - Posts

Testing Scoble's Link Power

Rob Scoble claims to raise sites from obscurity to a Google rank of 4 with a simple link from his blog. Let's try it out. I have a site (InfiniteSoccer.com) that has been up one month and currently has a rank of 0. Let's see if it works. I'll report back Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:50 PM by Tosh Meston | 9 Comments

What would you say to Bill?

There are two responses that I see frequently when MS people run into Bill at work. There’s the “oh my god, it’s Bill Gates!” reaction and the antithesis “he’s just a guy” reaction. The first I think is natural Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:01 PM by Tosh Meston | 19 Comments
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Ex-Intern about to Enter the Job Market

One of my old interns, Albert Mungin, is about to graduate UW equipped with a degree in EE and is looking for a job . Albert starting working at MS as a high school intern back before I joined in '96 and has come back most summers to a variety of test Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 11:49 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Commercialization of Your Youth

Beth is complaining about Lincoln using a Peter Gabriel song to sell SUVs and recalls her frustration at hearing the Smiths' How soon is now? being used to sell Mazdas. All I can say is that I feel the pain. Try HP using The Cure's Pictures of You to Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:43 PM by Tosh Meston | 7 Comments
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Strongly Typed Resources in Whidbey

This is pretty handy. Can't wait. Kit George has some vb demo code as well. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:57 AM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments
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MSDN Gripe

In my perfect MSDN world, clicking a link to a reference article like this findText method would not result in a redirection and wait as the MSDN table of contents tree loads on the left. Why can't I go directly to an article without the toc? Why doesn't Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:33 PM by Tosh Meston | 9 Comments
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Sharing One's Blogroll

Today I had this idea of a public site to upload one's blogroll so that you can find out who the people you read read - kind of an Amazon “people who bought this book also bought these...“ feature for weblogs. My buddy Dave Levin thought he'd Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 10:37 PM by Tosh Meston | 1 Comments
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Exchange Team Blog, Dave Winer and a pubDate

Well, this morning the Exchange team blog was announced on KC's feed , which is fantastic. Hopefully, I can send a few OWA tips that way. I guess we will have to wait and see. This afternoon I attended a talk by Dave Winer at MS. It was my first time Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2004 11:44 PM by Tosh Meston | 5 Comments
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Social Software

So Esther Dyson was on campus today, I didn't have a chance to go over and watch in person, but I watched the feed on the intranet. She talked a bit about the buzz of "social software" amongst other things. The term "social software" brings to mind sites Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 10:31 PM by Tosh Meston | 0 Comments

Announcing InfiniteSoccer.com

Today I announce InfiniteSoccer.com , a site for finding and scheduling pick-up soccer games based on the impressive technology that powers InfiniteHoops.com . Very exciting to think that a new franchise is the simple act of creating a new CSS, changing Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 11:47 AM by Tosh Meston | 5 Comments
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