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Microsoft - giving back the web?
Quick backgrounder: In October of last year, Tim Berners-Lee called for a renewed effort to progress the HTML standard from its current version (HTML 4.01) ratified by the W3C eight years ago. More recently, the WHAT-WG , an independent group was established...
Posted: Jan 10 2007, 12:55 PM by alexbarnett | with 6 comment(s)
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UK's top entrepreneurs under the age forty
The Daily Telegraph has 'revealed' 2006's most successful entrepreneurs in Britain under the age forty . Number 36 on the list is Ajaz Ahmed, founder of interactive agency AQKA , with a reported personal value of £51m (just shy of $100m...
Posted: Dec 13 2006, 10:20 AM by alexbarnett | with 1 comment(s)
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Web 2.0, Tech and Online Media - Predictions for 2007
It's only mid November and I've found plenty of opinions already predicting 2007 trends for the web (2.0) / tech / online media markets. I've listed some of my finds below. No doubt I'll come across few more before the end of the year...
REST Web Services and ROA
REST Web Services , a book in progress by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby piqued my interest yesterday. From the introduction: "We want to restore the World Wide Web to its rightful place as a respected architecture for distributed programming. We...
Alex Barnett Podcasts
Alex Barnett Podcasts - I like podcasting, here are the links to them. 2008 - Podcasts for the Bungee Line Nate Bowler, CTO of @Task , July 20 2008 @task (or AtTask ) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio...
Why am I moving my blog?
I finally got around to sorting out my new ' Alex Barnett blog ' on alexbarnett.net ! About my new blog I'm using Telligent 's Community Server (the recently released 2.1 version ) and running very nicely thanks to the good folks at ASPnix...
Moving my blog
OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog .
Sir Tim: Calm Down 2.0
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...
Windows Live QnA service - public beta
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...
RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr
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...
Windows Live WiFi - beta testers wanted!
Laura John (who I used to work with while we were both at MSDN / TechNet), has blogged about something I've not heard of before...Windows Live WiFi: "We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a...
IE7 - RCs, Changes and CSS
As you probably know by now, Dean Hachamovitch announced this morning that Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is ready for download . So what is the difference between a 'Release Candidate' (RC) and a 'Beta'? Here's the short answer from Dean...
On CodePlex, Open Source and Microsoft
Korby on CodePlex : "My take, from the trenches, is that CodePlex is Microsoft doing what it has always done: quietly supporting the needs and expressed wishes of our most important customers: developers developers developers developers, the fine folks...
OPML Podcast
Here's an OPMLish podcast for you, recorded tonight with me , Joshua Porter , Adam Green and John Tropea . It's all about the draft OPML 2.0 spec and a few other things thrown in such as structured blogging, OPML tools, namespaces and microformats...
Microformats Podcast
Microformats Podcast Here's a great podcast for you. All about microformats ... Joining me are Tantek Çelik , Dan Connolly and Rohit Khare . I think it's safe to say these guys know a thing or two about the web and microformats. As usual, show notes and...
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