| 1. |  | Links continue  - Captured: 15-12-2004 3:01:07
Joel points out the deeper
coolness of Google
Suggest, and announces
a geek dinner this Saturday.
Jon Udell is playing with Calendaring which
is a subset of a problem space I've been interested in since college.
JWZ has a link about folding
shirts.
Gladwell has two new pieces up, I found the one on the nature of getting
on with life over grief and trauma pretty interesting.
There appears ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 2. | | Tuesday Morning Links - Captured: 7-12-2004 19:19:14
The lame duck session of congress gives us an Intelligence
Overhaul.
Reality seems
to continue marching in Iraq, although not
everyone agrees.
Here is a pretty detailed article about the status
of Nuclear Weapons and Iran. Things that stand out to me is that the civilian
program issues is still a two year timeframe, alligations of military programs especially
related to two sites, Parchin and Lavisan II, an Iranian ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 3. | | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal? - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 4. | | SharePoint Portal Server Extranet Whitepaper released - Captured: 13-1-2005 7:02:00
Still on vacation (get back to work on Monday), but had to post some very important news: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document: Deploying on an Extranet by Using ISA Server 2000 and ISA Server 2004, as promised, was released recently. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4C5BF9DD-3EFB-451D-B213-98ED039190BF&displaylang=en.
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 5. | | SharePoint Extranet Solutions - Captured: 24-11-2004 8:29:00
Yes. You can deploy SharePoint solutions on the Extranet. I know several small and large customers who either have deployed a SharePoint solution externally or are in the process of doing so. A few months ago, we released a whitepaper relevant to partners and customers who want to deploy WSS on the Extranet. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/revproxy.mspx. There are several other resources, one of which, is a web cast that y...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 8. | | The Venting Game - Captured: 23-1-2005 15:15:41
As all large corporations Microsoft also has a few execs who see little of what comes
from their work. Thats the problem with living the 40 000 feet scenario continuously.
On the other hand there are these others who have never understood that 40 000 above
reality is pretty high and some greasy details never make it there. The problem here
is misunderstanding. While the execs get news papers to communicate with the folks
below 40 000 feet, the rest of the world never get...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 9. | | Halo 2 Has Gone Gold!!! - Captured: 11-10-2004 15:13:00
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=GoneGoldAnnouncer&p=811577 I want to congratulate all of the flaming ninjas over at Bungie, you guys rock! Man, I can't wait until this ships! :-)
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 10. | | Meeting physical force with soul force - Captured: 17-1-2005 10:46:00
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has a special place in my heart. My first Web site for The Seattle Times was a site we built in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I worked with editor Bill Ristow, who, like many who work with me, stared at me as though I were a maniac. :) And I was. We did this site because Frank Blethen, publisher of the paper, has always felt strongly about educating the public about Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. and about supporting the holid...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 11. | | Envisioning blogging without er, throwing up - Captured: 10-1-2005 15:39:00
Next week I get to do yet another presentation with Robert Scoble, Blogger at Large. It's always a pleasure because Robert is so darn sunny in his personality and he's a natural presenter - he digs that evangelism thing and can wing it on notes taped to his sleeve. I am of course more terrified and methodical, especially when ( as with the Webcast we did together) the audience is people who do evangelism for a living and present all the time. I live and die by the Powerpoint. Oh and Advil, never...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 12. | | Turn of the tide - Captured: 30-12-2004 10:54:00
So 2004 winds to a close. The devastation in Indonesia and Thailand beggars description (despite all the news commentators, who still find ways to talk about something that just leaves me speechless). Advances and retreats in medicine are announced every day. I'm trying to do one of those "sum up" blog posts and I really can't. Microsoft's pace (up until the beauty of the holiday weeks, when no one is here) has been such that it's been hard to remember what I did the week before, never mind 52 w...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 13. | | patternshare.org is online!! - Captured: 9-2-2005 2:35:39
I was looking for info on a design pattern, and on a whim I thought I'd see if patternshare.org was
online yet. And it is!
This site promises to be an awesome resource for all of us, since it provides a centralized
index/resouce for patterns of many types. The fact that it is online is wonderful
news!
For more information go to www.lhotka.net.
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 14. | | Remoting vs Web Services vs ES/COM+/DCOM - Captured: 4-2-2005 5:11:20
I’ve hashed and rehashed this topic
numerous times. In particular, read this and this.
But the debate rages on, paralyzing otherwise perfectly normal development teams in
a frenzy of analysis paralysis over something that is basically not all that critical
in a good architecture.
I mean really. If you do a decent
job of architecting, it really doesn’t matter a whole hell of a lot which RPC protocol
you use, because you can alwa...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 15. | | From VAX to Windows - Captured: 19-1-2005 17:29:50
When I first got involved with Microsoft
it was around 1990 or ’91. The world of the time was dominated by IBM, with
DEC a close second. If you wanted to network PCs you used Novell or Banyan. All PC
programs were DOS programs. “Windows” was just one of many graphical libraries
being used by software to handle drawing on the screen. And if you wanted to do real
work you used a mainframe or minicomputer.
At the time, M...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 16. | | 20 Year Usenet Timeline - Captured: 10-1-2005 16:45:59
Google has released a 20
year timeline of usenet newsgroup history, highlighting notable events along the
way.
I find it very interesting to see the history of the “world's largest BBS“.
Personally I got involved in usenet in 1989 or 1990. I was working for a bio-medical
manufacturing company, and managed to convince a local defense contractor to allow
us to tap a usenet feed off them. The feed came through our 1200 baud modem, with
us dialing...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 17. | | Less choice leads to better results? - Captured: 8-1-2005 5:23:13
Less choice leads to better results.
Higher level languages and frameworks
restrict choice.
Thus, higher level languages and
frameworks should lead to better results.
The “less choice” statement
flows from this article entitled Choice
Cuts. Ignore the politics
and focus on the research beneath the statement. That’s what is valuable in
this context.
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From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 18. | | Now everybody do the propaganda! - Captured: 4-2-2005 14:49:31
The
February issue of The Reader’s Digest has an article entitled “
America
’s Worst Judges”.
It
begins, as many regressivist commentaries on a variety of subjects do, by asking you
to imagine that you’re the victim of a crime. Because
we all know how much that sort of imagery contributes to rational thought.
Then
it goes for the ...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 19. | | Not for the fainthearted or symbol-minded - Captured: 2-2-2005 20:10:22
I
never really got into the whole conspiracy theory thing. For
instance, I’ve never seen even a single full episode of The X-Files. For
one thing, I already had enough T.V. to watch, for another, David Duchovney (or however
you spell it) always seemed like kind of a dick. And
I found it annoying how every other woman on the planet seemed to think he was hot,
when I looked and looked, and just saw a scrawny, too-full-of...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 20. | | A is for Academic Excellence - Captured: 30-1-2005 22:17:22
Like many compellingly outrageous
topics on education I’ve had brought to my attention, this one was found at Ernie’s
3-D Pancakes.
Here is an article
on the subject…and another.
The thrust of the story is, this
17-year-old kid wanted to get into an honors math course at his high school, and as
a condition of admission into this class he has to complete three very difficult calculus
problems over th...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 21. | | Drill Sergeant Voice - Captured: 28-1-2005 20:15:11
Oh Lordy!
I had to use my drill sergeant voice today.
Now, normally, I am into the whole pro-active discipline thing. My kids are
very sensitive and spirited, so I try to minimize disruption, stick to a
schedule, keep things predictable and consistent...use reminders and
re-direction...etc.
&nb
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 22. | | Blog and Search Marketing - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
A few tidbits regarding the trend of blog, RSS and search marketing:
News that Ask buys Bloglines. This news has gained quite a bit of coverage in the blogosphere, but very little in traditional news (yet). Formal announcement is to occur today or Tuesday.
I first read about Bloglines being purchased by Ask Jeeves on John Battelle's Searchblog over the w/e but did not have time to post. One
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 23. | | Google spatial engine - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
According to Government Computer News, Google Inc. will be geo-enabling its search engine with the recent acquisition of Keyhole, a digital mapping company. Keyhole’s technology lets a user enter an address, “fly� over a 3-D image of it, zoom and tilt, measure distances and find things around it.
"The Google engine will be part of the second-generation Geospatial One-Stop e-government site,
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 24. | | Ask Jeeves - Google Local - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
Ask Jeeves now has a blog with JeevesGuy unmasked! Also via WMW:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search provider Ask Jeeves Inc. (Nasdaq:ASKJ - news) on Thursday posted sharply higher profit and revenue, helped by strong Web search advertising and an acquisition last year that roughly doubled its size. Oakland, California-based Ask Jeeves said net income from continuing operations rose to $17.1
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 25. | | Yahoo to launch search tool Y!Q - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
MercuryNews.com ran a short article today announcing that Yahoo is launching a new search tool (Y!Q tool). Yahoo boasts that it's the first contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you're viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to what you're reading. You can test it out on Yahoo News
Tags: Yahoo, Y!Q, Search Engine, Search
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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