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Moving on.
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:12:00 GMT
Alex Barnett here...a quick one: This will be my last post on blogs.msdn.com as I'm leaving Microsoft at the end of March 2007. If you're still subscribed to my RSS feed on blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn please note this blog won't be updated again from March 30th. If you want to keep up with what I'm up to go here.
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Moving my blog
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:38:00 GMT
OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog.
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Sir Tim: Calm Down 2.0
Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:20:00 GMT
This is what The Register said Sir TBL said about Web 2.0:
"You should thank Tim Berners-Lee. Not just for giving us the web, but for articulating what's gone wrong in the lexicon and thinking of Silicon Valley. Hopefully, his standing in the web community will serve as a rallying cry for right-thinking individuals and true visionaries, and mean Web 2.0 is put in its proper context."
This is what Sir TBL actually said in the IBM podcast:
"LANINGHAM: You know, with Web 2.0, a common explanation out there is Web 1.0 was about connecting computers and making information available; and Web 2 is about connecting people and facilitating new kinds of collaboration. Is that how you see Web 2.0?BERNERS-LEE: Totally not. Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.And in fact, you know, this Web 2.0, quote, it means using the standards which have been produced by all these people working on Web 1.0. It means using the document object model, it means for HTML and SVG and so on, it's using HTTP, so it's building stuff using the Web standards, plus Java script of course.So Web 2.0 for some people it means moving some of the thinking client side so making it more immediate, but the idea of the Web as interaction between people is really what the Web is. That was what it was designed to be as a collaborative space where people can interact.Now, I really like the idea of people building things in hypertext, the sort of a common hypertext space to explain what the common understanding is and thus capturing all the ideas which led to a given position. I think that's really important. And I think that blogs and wikis are two things which are fun, I think they've taken off partly because they do a lot of the management of the navigation for you and allow you to add content yourself.But I think there will be a whole lot more things like that to come, different sorts of ways in which people will be able to work together.The semantic wikis are very interesting. These are wikis in which people can add data and then that data can then be surfaced and sliced and diced using all kinds of different semantic Web tools, so that's why it's exciting the way people, things are going, but I think there are lots of new things in that vein that we have yet to invent."
This is what Emily Turrettini over at Smart Mobs said The Register said that Sir TBL said:
"Berners-Lee has dismissed Web 2.0 as useless jargon nobody can explain and a set of technology that tries to achieve exactly the same thing as "Web 1.0." The Register reports"
This is what Voidstar said Smart Mobs said The Register said that Sir TBL said:
"pointing out that Web 2.0 is just Web 1.0 with pastel colours and a style sheet"
Did someone say 'echo chamber' or Chinese whispers?
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I've not met Frank, but I know about his shirt.
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:18:00 GMT
I've not met Frank Arrigo in person, but I know about his shirt.
In the latest episode of the 'Frank and His Shirt' reality show series, the hunt is on for an apparent posuer.
The background to this rather potracted saga is a story unto itself, even getting press coverage in the local IT rags (local = Australia in Frank's case).
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Windows Live QnA service - public beta
Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:43:00 GMT
Congrats to Betsy and the team: the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta.
I've been on the private beta for a little while and turned to it for help for a couple of things when I got stuck. One example was asking for good seafood restaurants in Seattle. I tried out one of the recommendations and was not let down...it works!
Update: TechCrunch picks this up.
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I still love the smell of comment spam in the morning.
Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:36:00 GMT
I love the smell of comment spam in the morning. I did then, I do now.
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YouTube video - How to - using Windows Movie Maker
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:31:00 GMT
A video on how to make a YouTube video using Windows Movie Maker, on YouTube, made using Windows Movie Maker...
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Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:58:00 GMT
Somasega introduces the 'Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps'
1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines2. Enrich the user experience3. Enable users to visualize, organize, and search4. Run securely5. Design for reliability and manageability6. Establish a customer feedback loop7. Build for connected systems8. Bring data to the user with RSS9. Make document data accessible10. Build for mobility
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RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:37:00 GMT
Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs.
Kevin, one way of displaying these as a blogroll is to use Grazr. Below is your OPML file for the Windows Live team blogs rendered inside the Grazr ui:. Just wack in the url of any OPML file here and then copy and paste the code...
I have to update my OPML file, but you can browse mine at my blog's left hand nav.
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Private equity buyouts and crack
Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:52:00 GMT
Mitch Ratcliffe spotted a column published ealier this month on the FT. The article, written columinst John Plender, proposes that a leveraged buyout of Microsoft by private equity bankers would be a good thing. As Mitch points out, this scenario would be a good thing for the private equity bankers and er, that's pretty much it.
I can't see the whole article (behind a paywall) but from the citation Mitch provides I think I can help Mitch out on his question around what was being smoked at the FT that day - it begins with a 'c' and it rhymes with smack.
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