| 1. |  | Out for a while  - Captured: 29-9-2004 11:11:00
I'm going on infant care leave either tomorrow or next week. I'll most likely not blog anything during that time since I'll be enjoying my new son. I'll return to work at the end of October. The VSIP/Extensibility team is working hard to get Whidbey Beta 2 ready and everyone is heads down on that effort. It's going to be great to get that beta shipped!
From: AllenD's WebLog |
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| 2. | | The Next Few Entries - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
For a time I had an internal blog at Microsoft for posts that were either only really internally relevant or contained information that wasn't suitable for public consumption. For assorted reasons I didn't keep it going, and the few poor people who were looking at it gave up, so when I moved groups most recently I decided not to try to put it back up.
Full article ==> The Next Few Entries
From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | Comments and Discussions - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
I don't have a discussions forum kind of setup on this blog, as you no doubt have noticed. There are a few reasons for this, but it is contrary in some ways to the concept of blogging so I want to touch on why that's true and why I think the comments stuff is kinda silly.
Full article ==> Comments and Discussions
From: myShoggoth |
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| 4. | | This Old Blog - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
When I first started this website/blog, it languished for a while before I got serious about putting up some content that anyone would really care about. I think there's enough now for some kind of critical mass, so rather than demanding that I continue to put up stuff that meets some kind of 'article' feel like I have in the past I'm going to generally switch over to more of a conversational feel with occasional articles on topics as I get the request or urge to post them.
Full article =...
From: myShoggoth |
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| 6. | | The cost of software - Captured: 15-1-2005 8:07:00
As I suspected, some folks (based on feedback on the blog and email to me), made some points about cost - specifically, saying that SPS is too expensive. Above and beyond the points I made in my quite lengthy blog entry, fundamentally, you must ask yourself - "what exactly do you want to do today and where do you want to go?" The first, obvious point that I didn't mention in my most recent blog entry in the TCO section is that Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is part of the Windows Server ...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 7. | | 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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| 8. | | Windows Needs To Get Worse! - Captured: 4-2-2005 0:07:30
Seriously, Windows needs to get worse to become better. I've
written about how Office has too much stuff. I now believe, for the average user,
Windows has the same problem.
This conclusion results from a discussion after watching a recording of brands in
the public space by Friedrich
von Borries (Author of "Who
is Afraid of Niketown" and creator of Urban-Diary)
given in mid December in Zurich at the ETH. I liked the ideas of activating the public
spa...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 11. | | Smartphone Development Resources - Captured: 1-2-2005 11:33:00
It almost goes without saying that I'm completely addicted to my Windows Mobile-based phone. I have an Audiovox SMT 5600, which runs Windows Mobile 2003 and has support built in for the .Net Compact Framework. There's something wonderfully compelling about being able to easily write apps code for smaller devices while still being able to use a world-class IDE to handle everything related to them. Anyway, I found a great collection of links this morning on developing apps for the Compact Framewor...
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 12. | | Gotdotnet: a suspicion that weve created a life form - Captured: 28-1-2005 13:02:00
So I don't normally inflict more than one blog post on you guys per week, but I feel I owe it to the greater Gotdotnet community to talk more about the site's ups and downs this week.
I joke around with people with dark humor - especially the old Gotdotnet team who know the site well - about how sneaky the site is. If there's a server or application problem, it usually shows up ....
1) On a weekend when there's a skeleton Microsoft.com ops crew that doesn't know G...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 13. | | 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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| 14. | | 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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| 15. | | 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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| 16. | | Best of from the naming conventions chat... - Captured: 1-2-2005 22:58:00
Today I reviewed the chat transcript from last weeks following up from the Naming Conventions session, it should be posted soon. In order to encourage you to attend tomorrow’s chat from the Rich Type System session I thought I’d post a few gems I pulled out of that chat. So, just a reminder, the Rich Type System chat is 2/2 at 1pm PST [Sign up for the chat]. See you there! BradA [MS] (Expert):
Q: What phase of Beta2 are you in now? Ask, Tell, Final ...
From: Brad Abrams |
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| 17. | | Windows Resource Kits - Captured: 8-2-2005 16:16:00
If you haven't looked at this before, the links on this page go to some of the best information you can get on Windows. I keep having to search for this, and so I'm making a blog note to myself. :)
Windows Deployment and Resource Kits
Here are a few of the top links:
Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
Windows XP Professional Resource Kit Documentation
Other Resource Kits
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 18. | | April Reagan is Blogging - Captured: 5-2-2005 1:45:00
April Reagan is a box PM for the Visual C++ team and she's one of my favorite people over in building 41. She's got a blog now and in her first post she explains, among other things, what a box PM is. Check out her blog here (rss). Here's a link to her first post, be sure to stop by and say hi!
Introduction: A Day in the Life of a Box PM
A box program manager is basically a project manager without any direct reports (unless, of course you are a box PM lead). In other words, ...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 19. | | dasBlog upgrade and a trip to Chicago - Captured: 30-1-2005 5:58:59
I just upgraded this blog to the newest version of dasBlog. I upgraded my personal
blog a few days ago and it has been trouble-free, so I thought it safe to upgrade
this one. The only serious change you may see is when posting comments, as this new
version requires that you type in a code from a graphic to help defeat posting bots.
Kind of a pain, but worth it I suppose.
Of course I'm doing this just before leaving town for two weeks - first to Chicago
and then t...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 20. | | The power, the absolute power! - Captured: 31-1-2005 6:13:44
I
was recently in an argument with a guy calling himself “Thomas”, who has
posted here several times, and on Rocky’s blog several times. Now,
Thomas seems to be a pretty smart guy, but he makes wild assumptions that, when challenged,
he is unable to support without any sort of coherence. An
example would be this quote below:
“The
Founding Fathers designed the system with the assump...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 21. | | About.com for sale - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
SearchEngineWatch Blog notes a New York Times article announcing that About.com is for sale.
"Yahoo!, Google, AOL, and The New York Times are bidding to purchase the site. Final bids must be received by today. According to The Times, the asking price is $350 million to $500 million."
Tags: About.com, Google, Yahoo, AOL
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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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. | | 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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| 24. | | New Vote Business Blogging Awards - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
The first voting script for the Business Blogging Awards apparently had some issues, so a new voting system is in place and any votes prior to today have been scrapped.
So please take a moment and cast your vote for Best SEO Blog
Our blog is listed as: Online Marketing SEO Blog
Additional categories to vote for include:
Best Overall Blog
Best Group Blog
Best New Blog
Best Law Blog
Best
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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