The Universal Inbox- March 31, 2005 Bloglines just published a new press release entitled Bloglines is First to Go Beyond the Blog with Unique-to-Me Info Updates which is excerpted below Oakland, CA -- March 30, 2005 -- Ask Jeeves, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASKJ), today announced that Bloglines (www.bloglines.com), the worlds most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content has released the first of a wave of new capabilities that help consumers monitor...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/31/404096.aspx Passport Renaming: Changing the email address associated with an MSN Space or MSN Messenger account- March 29, 2005 MSN services such as MSN Spaces and MSN Messenger require one to create a Passport account to use them. Passport requires the use of an email address which is used as the login name of the user. However as time progresses people often have to change email addresses for one reason or the other. On such occassions I've seen a couple of requests internally asking for the ability to change the Passport account an MSN Spaces or MSN Messenger account is associated with. ...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/29/403251.aspx SOA, AJAX and REST: The Software Industry Devolves into the Fashion Industry- March 22, 2005 Ever since the article Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications unleashed itself on the Web I've seen the cacophony of hype surrounding Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (aka AJAX reach thunderous levels. The introduction to the essay already should make one wary about the article, it begins Ajax isnt a technology. Its really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: standards-based presentation using XHTML...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/22/400372.aspx MSN Messenger Buddy List Limit Doubled- March 22, 2005 Last night, we put the finishing touches on an upgrade to the server-side of MSN Messenger. The maximum size of a buddy list has been increased from 150 to 300. Enjoy.http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/22/400360.aspx Find Out More About MSN's Web-based RSS Aggregator at Start.com- March 21, 2005 Steve Rider, one of the great folks behind start.com, has started a category on his blog devoted to the site. His first post discusses some of the changes they've made to the site in the past week. He writes As soon as I finish this post I'll be digging in my heels for the afternoon and working on OPML import support and increasing the number of headlines per feed. Hey, what are rainy Sunday afternoons for Here are some of the improvements we've made since we were "discovered" a week...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/20/399482.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: Odeo -- Podcasting for Everyone- March 18, 2005 These are my notes from the Odeo -- Podcasting for Everyone session by Evan Williams. Evan Williams was the founder of Blogger and Odeo is his new venture. Just as in his post How Odeo Happened Evan likens podcasting to audioblogging and jokingly states that he and Noah Glass invented podcasting with AudioBlogger. Of course, the audience knew he was joking and laughed accordingly. I do wonder though, how many people think that podcasting is simply audioblogging instead of...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/18/398734.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: Introducing Google Code- March 18, 2005 This was a late breaking session that was announced shortly after The Long Tail: Conversation with Chris Anderson and Joe Kraus. Unfortunately, I didn't take my tablet PC with me to the long tail session so I don't have any notes from it. Anyway, back to Google Code. The Google Code session was hosted by Chris DiBona. The Google Code homepage is is similar to YSDN in that it tries to put all the Google APIs under a single roof. The site consists of three main parts;...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/18/398681.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: Introduction to Yahoo! Search Web Services- March 18, 2005 These are my notes on Introduction to Yahoo! Search Web Services session by Jeremy D. Zawodny The Yahoo! Search web services are available on the Yahoo! Search Developer Network(YSDN) site. YSDN launched by providing web services that allow applications to interact with local, news, Web, image and video search. Web services for interacting with Y!Q contextual search was launched during ETech. Jeremy stated that the design goal for their web services was for them to be simple and...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/18/398661.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: "Just" Use HTTP- March 17, 2005 These are my notes from the "Just" Use HTTP session by Sam Ruby The slides for this presentation are available. No summary can do proper justice to this presentation so I'd suggest viewing the slides. Sam's talk focuses on the various gotchas facing developers building applications using REST or Plain old XML over HTTP (POX). The top issues include unicode (both in URIs and XML), escaped HTML in XML content and QNames in XML content. A lot of these gotchas are due to specs...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/17/397843.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: Building a New Web Service at Google- March 17, 2005 These are my notes on the Building a New Web Service at Google session by Nelson Minar Nelson Minar gave a talk about the issues he encountered while shipping the Adwords API. The slides for the talk are available online. I found this talk the most useful of the conference given that within the next year or so I'll be going through the same thing at MSN. The purpose of the Adwords API was to enable Google customers manage their adwords campaigns. In cases where users..http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/17/397437.aspx |