Monthly Archives: June 2006

Wiki Happenings

The last ten days have seen some increased visibility of wikis. Saw the introduction to MSDN wiki. I blogged about it here. The very next day, I saw eBay's wiki announcement (based on JotSpot). This blog talks about it being

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Live.com moves into Top-10 in Alexa

Live.com moves up to Top-10 in Alexa rankings. This brings the number of Microsoft properties to 4. 3 Microsoft Network 6 Passport.net 8. Microsoft Corporation 10 Live.com Here is a copy of the screen-shot from InfoMinder.

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Flock is Cool

I am trying a test post from Flock. So far the experience of using it is pretty good. I had no trouble importing my settings from Firefox and IE and getting started. I judge a product by the first 15

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Microsoft Developer Network Wiki

Heard about this from Oleg Tkachenko's Blog Notes: There is a page navigation bar on the left, content in the middle and community stats on the right. You can check it out here. Here is the FAQ page. To add

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XML11 – An AJAX Development Methodology

I need to thank Google for this. I watched a fascinating presentation by Arno Puder a Google TechTalk. XML11, like Google Web Toolkit, is a methodology for building AJAX applications in Java. But the similarity stops there. While Google compiles

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Reuse rather than Reinvent

I like this post from Tantek. In his XML Design Notes, Tantek mentions two simple thumb rules: Reuse rather than reinvent Use elements for human information, attributes for machine information In order to help people reuse (assume that they have

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Microformat Search and Pingerati

I am not sure how I missed this. Here is an announcement on Technorati of a new search/ping service for Microformats. I'm very pleased to announce the technology preview of Technorati microformats search for contacts, events and reviews, and Pingerati,

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Google Spreadsheet – Am I Missing Something?

I got my invitation for the Google Spreadsheet and promptly signed up. Not being a financial type, I created a couple of task lists and shared it with two different friends with email. I played around with the basic operations

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MicroLearning, MicroKnowledge

Found this link from Danny's post about MicroLearning Conference. I was curious about the concept so went to Microlearning.org and found this wiki. Microlearning …is a term used in the e-learning context for a learner’s short interaction with a learning

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Mashup Camp 2

Just got a confirmation email for Mashup Camp2. Wow! There are already more than 600 people confirmed todate. Looking forward to meeting all these people.

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