Friday, June 09, 2006 2:25 PM
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YAG
MSDNWiki and thoughts on structured vs. unstructured conversations
Soma announced a new project today, the MSDNWiki, which takes our MSDN documentation and adds structured discussions to it, allowing you to see not only the original articles, but conversations about it, other links, etc. While you can't edit the original documentation, the rest is fair game.
This is an interesting approach to melding the unstructured nature of a wiki with the structured nature of a forum. You can add your own feedback, edit it, comment on what others have said and add to their "blocks".
I'm curious as to which people find more useful - and whether that usefulness is different depending on the medium or what you're trying to accomplish. Allowing others to change your forum question may not make sense - but being able to change a "block" in a wiki that is all about documentation may.
What are your thoughts?
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About YAG
Yair Alan Griver is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties. As architect, he is responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. In addition to MSCOM architect, Alan is also responsible for the continued development of Visual FoxPro. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company.
Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.
