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2007 January
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JSON vs. XML: Browser Programming Models
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JSON vs. XML: Browser Security Model
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The GMail Security Flaw and Canary Values
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Updated: XML Has Too Many Architecture Astronauts
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Windows Live for TV (Beta) Now Available
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A Disconnected Computer Has Little Value
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The Virtue of Closed Platforms: Album Sales Slump while Ringtone Sales Soar
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Screencast: RSS Bandit Inspired By Google Reader
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The iPhone: Crappy Phone, Awesome iPod
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Google's Month of Security Flaws
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IE 7, Firefox and the Search Wars
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Lil Wayne Sells Out DJ Drama
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Five Unrelated Links
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RSS Bandit 1.5.x (Jubilee) Release Candidate Installer Available
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My Plan to Save Apple Inc. Millions in Tech Support Costs
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ODF vs. OOXML on Wikipedia
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Grab this Widget: Windows Live Contacts Widget
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What is Rob Weir (and IBM's) Agenda with the OOXML Bashing?
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Use Windows Live Search and Help Refugee Children
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How Do We Get Rid of Lies on Wikipedia?
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Cool Celebrity Questions on Yahoo! Answers
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Flickr Adds Machine Tags
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How Should I Torture My Girlfriend this Weekend?
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Embeddable Videos Come to Windows Live Spaces
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Miguel de Icaza on OOXML vs. ODF
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Be Careful What You Show Your Users
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The Windows Live SDK and Passport Opens Up
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A Collection of Links on Monday Morning
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Microsoft Working on OpenID Support
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Windows Live Mail is now Windows Live Hotmail
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InvalidActiveXStateException and Remembering Open Browser Tabs on Restart
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Three New Windows Live Services for Mobile Phones
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Live.com Collections Debut
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Usage Specific robots.txt Directives
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Googlegate and Founders' Awards
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The Marketing for the Upcoming Iran Invasion Heats Up
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On Facebook Gifts
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Ads: Vista vs. Mac OS X
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411 is Dead to Me
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Looks Like I Missed an Upgrade or Two
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Social Media...WTF?
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Learning and Doing New Things
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MSN Reporter: Microsoft's Digg Clone?
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Hidden in Plain Sight
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Why Feedburner Doesn't Count Outlook 2007 Subscribers
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Vision vs. Shipping Code
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Inspired by Windows Vista
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Back from Disneyland
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Blog Rants as Bug Reports
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How Big is the Health Related Search Market?
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Entropy in Tagging Systems, Google's Office Killer and Conference Diversity
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API Hall of Shame: Lucene's IndexReader and IndexWriter
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When JSON isn't JSON
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What Comes After AJAX?
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Michael Gartenberg Leaving Microsoft
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Captain America is Dead!
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Upcoming Outage
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Seattle Startup Shoutout: AgileDelta
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Wikipedia: Who's Your Daddy?
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Microsoft Announces "Games for Windows - LIVE"
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Trackback Spam
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Living Without Database Transactions
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The Org Chart for Microsoft's Online Businesses
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Open Source is Dead
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How Do We Fix Microsoft?
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Personals from Nigeria
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The Difference Between Hard Coding and Magic Numbers
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Pictures from My Trip to Nigeria
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Music from my Trip to Nigeria
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Terry Semel and the Halo Effect
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Arguing Intelligently About Copyright on the Internet
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Silverlight: Web Development + Hosted Services Platform
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C# from a Java Developer's Perspective v2.0
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Incentives Matter: Why Comments on Digg Are So Bad
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Silverlight: AJAX is now an Endangered Species
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Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Mail News
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REST, Web Platforms and Versioning
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Upcoming RSS Bandit Refresh
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What is Java FX Answered by Don Park
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Opting out of the XBox Live<->Windows Live Messenger Integration
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Has Overuse of Bayesian Analysis Screwed Google Search?
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Questioning Silverlight, JavaFX and Other RIA Platforms
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Spider-Man 3 (aka A Night at the Roxbury 2)
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Google Universal Search bug?
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Seeking Good Games on XBox 360
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What is "The Web"?
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Microsoft's Open Source Patent Claims: Interview with Bill Hilf
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"Social" is More Important Than "Software" in Social Software
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Robert Scoble's Faulty Analysis of YouTube Purchase
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Microsoft's PopFly - Mashup Builder Extraordinaire
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New Transformers Movie Trailer
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Microsoft Acquires aQuantive for $6 Billion
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RSS Bandit (Jubilee Edition) Update: New Features
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Understanding Adobe's Apollo
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Kill the Cash Cow Before Your Competitors Do. Really?
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Five Blogs I'm Currently Enjoying
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Congratulations to FeedBurner
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Mike Champion Defends WS-*
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Apollo Makes Desktop Apps Cool Again
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Google GData: A Uniform Web API for All Google Services
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No Microsoft PDC This Year
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Initial Thoughts on the Facebook Platform
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Intrusive, Disgusting Ads Masquerading as Updates from Friends
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Doing Evil to the Internet: Google and Yahoo! Promote Domain Squatting
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Why Facebook is Bigger Than Blogging
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Google Gears: Offline Support for AJAX/Flash Apps
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Surviving WinFS: How LINQ to SQL Came to Be
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One Perspective on Microsoft vs. TestDriven.NET
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What's Wrong with WADL?
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Google Gears: Replacing One Problem with Another
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What Ruby on Rails Can Learn from ASP.NET
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Improving Website Usability with A/B Testing
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MSN Soapbox Now Open to the Public
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WhyWillYouWorkHere.com
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Microsoft's "Back to the Future" Spoof Video
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Why GData/APP Fails as a General Purpose Editing Protocol for the Web
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GData isn't a Best Practice Implementation of the Atom Publishing Protocol
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Windows Live Hotmail and Outlook Together at Last
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I Need a Stevey Yegge Translator
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Microsoft and the Atom Publishing Protocol
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Top 5 Questions I'm Currently Pondering
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RSS Bandit 1.5.x (ShadowCat) Beta Installer Available
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Seattle Startup Shoutout: Zillow
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Web3S: A RESTful Protocol for Accessing Windows Live Services
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Marc Andreessen: The GoDaddy 2.0 Business Model
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Blogging is to Social Networks as Books are to...
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Facebook: The Power of Software that Knows Who You Know
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Ten Things I Found Funny This Week
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Did I Tick Off 214 People Last Weekend?
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Moonlight: Silverlight for Linux in 21 Days
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Mike Arrington: Then and Now
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What is the Right PM<->Developer Ratio?
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Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets
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Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: Scaling Google for Every User
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Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: Lessons in Building Scalable Systems
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Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: Using MapReduce on Large Geographic Datasets
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Three Things I Learned About Software in College
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Thoughts on Microsoft's Online Strategy
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RE: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective
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Network Effects Mean Walled Gardens are Here to Stay
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ASP.NET Caching vs. memcached: Seeking Efficient Data Partitioning, Lookup, and Retrieval
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Amazon EC2 + S3 Doesn't Cut it for Real Applications
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Stupid Things Big Companies Do
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Lessons on Innovation from Google
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Google Base Data API vs. Astoria: Two Approaches to SQL-like Queries in a RESTful Protocol
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Live Search for Mobile 2.0 is Available
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Movie Review: Transformers
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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Facebook is the next Broadcast.com
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Windows Home Server ships
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Movers and Shakers in the Technology Industry on Facebook
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Weird Dream I Had Last Night
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Google Cookie Expiration Policy Changes: Too Little, Too Late
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Note to Software Vendors, the World is Collaborative and Loosely Coupled
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Versioning Libraries: You Can't Eliminate Complexity...
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Django or Rails, Ruby or Python?
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Four Simple Improvements to the Facebook User Experience
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What Would You Ask Vint Cerf?
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Windows Live Spaces Gets More Social
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Facial Recognition Comes to Live Search
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Your Website's UI is Synonymous with Your Brand
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A-List Technology Bloggers: What Are They Good For?
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What is a "Cloud OS"?
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RSS Bandit 1.5.x (ShadowCat) Beta Installer Refreshed
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MSFT Investment Needs More Patience?
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R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet Chapters" 13-22 Coming Soon
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When Not to Normalize your SQL Database
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"Web 2.0" is the New Vendor Lock-in
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Some Thoughts on Open Social Networks
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How Robert Scoble Hijacked My Facebook News Feed
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RE: Where Are The Black Tech Bloggers?
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Windows Live SkyDrive in public beta. Replaces Windows Live Folders
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C# Generics: Implicit Type Conversion Hell
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Some Thoughts on Hadoop
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5GB Inboxes and Other Features Come to Windows Live Hotmail
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Google Video Store: More Proof that DRM Schemes Screw Consumers
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A Proposal for Social Network Interoperability via OpenID
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Google and Spyware: When Trust Leads to Complacency
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Thoughts on the Facebook Data Store API
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Version 1.0 of Windows Live ID(Web Authentication) SDK Shipped
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Facebook's Achilles Heel: Handling Multiple Social Contexts
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Google Working on Social Network Aggregator
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The Problems Faced by a Unified Social Graph
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Facebook: The Social Graph Roach Motel
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The Skype Outage: How Come It Hasn't Happened Before?
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Windows Live and Bebo: Social Network Portability, IM Interoperability and More
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Microformats are not an API
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It isn't OpenID vs. Windows Live ID (Web Authentication )
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The Internet is a Dead Platform and Mark Cuban is a Dinosaur
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Facebook Spam
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Why Google Should be Scared of Facebook
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Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right: Contract-first vs. Code-first Web Services Development
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Facebook Makes Token Attempt to Curb Application Spam
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Three Down, Two to Go
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Plaxo Pulse: Imitation is the Sincerest form of Flattery
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The Difference between a Social Network Site, a Social Graph Application and a Social OS
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Put the User in Control Otherwise Things Fall Apart
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MySpace: How To Devalue a Platform in Three Easy Steps
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Monday was a Good Day: Bumbershoot and Rush Hour 3
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How OpenID Prevents Spoofing and Malicious Impersonation
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The Windows Live Suite is Here
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Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow
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If You Document It, It's No Longer a Bug
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Some Thoughts on CouchDB and Relational Databases
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OAuth: Standardizing Authentication and Authorization for Web APIs
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RSS Bandit Apologies
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RSS Bandit + NewsGator Online: Your Feeds on the Desktop and on the Web
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RSS Bandit v1.5.0.17 Released
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Message Queues, Denormalization and Scalability
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Microsoft REST APIs: Astoria = Web3S + Atom - RDF
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How Facebook Makes Identity Theft Easier
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RSS Bandit v1.5.0.17 Installer Refreshed
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Thoughts on FriendFeed, Brainchild of the creators of Gmail and Google Maps
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eBay's Skype Misadventure
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It Must Be a Fun Time to Work on Microsoft Office
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Dinosaur Country redux
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Joel Spolsky on Why the Facebook Platform is the Future of the Web
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Facebook Hates Fakesters Too
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"Office is Dead" and Other Obvious Trends
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On the Release of the Source Code of the .NET Framework Libraries
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Thoughts on Amazon's Internal Storage System (Dynamo)
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OAuth 1.0 is Here - Delegated Authority Comes to Mashups
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When Databases Lie: Consistency vs. Availability in Distributed Systems
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One Protocol to Rule Them All and in the Darkness Bind Them
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Wedding Weekend and Honeymoon Pictures
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Windows Live Events and Updated "What's New" page on Windows Live Spaces
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Sarcastic Responses to Dumb Questions (Erick Schonfeld Edition)
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Sarcastic Responses to Dumb Questions (Kara Swisher Edition)
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The New maps.live.com is Hot
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Can the Facebook News Feed be Made More Useful?
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The Web is the Platform: On Microsoft's Social Graph API Strategy
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Social Networking Site Platforms: How Developers Should Evaluate the MySpace platform (and others)
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If You Fight the Web, You Will Lose.
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OutSync: Synchronize Your Outlook/Smartphone Contacts with FaceBook
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Live Contacts Interactive SDK: Try Out the Windows Live Contacts API
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Who Will Acquire the Widget Makers?
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Which is better for developers, the Firefox platform vs. Facebook platform?
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Search Engines as Mind Readers
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New Addition to the Family
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Windows Live Spaces: World's Most Popular Social Networking Site
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Some Thoughts on MySpace, Bebo and SixApart adopting OpenSocial
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Google Transforms into Microsoft of Old
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Google OpenSocial: Technical Overview and Critique
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XBox 360 Green Screen of Death
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OpenSocial Explained in Five Sentences
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Phoenix Thoughts: My Top 5 Features for the Next Version of RSS Bandit
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Building a Platform is Hard
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Google Stops Shipping Products, Starts Shipping FUD
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Windows Live News: live.com email addresses, Calendar in public beta and v1.0 of Desktop Suite
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Embed Windows Live Messenger Anywhere on the Web
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Tim O'Reilly: OpenSocial Misses the Point
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Facebook vs. Facebook Developers: When Platforms Attack
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SocialAds Implications: Facebook will Acquire iLike and Flixster
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OpenID + OAuth is the Final Nail in the Coffin of the WS-* vs. REST Discussion
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Wedding Day Pictures
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WS-* is to REST as Theory is to Practice
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What's Right and Wrong with Code Generation in Web Services
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Guidelines for Building RESTful Web Services
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The Joy of Programming: Learning Python and Simplifying Life
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Interested in "Python for C# Developers?"
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Some Thoughts on the Facebook Beacon
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A Meme Tracker in IronPython
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Memetracking in RSS Bandit
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Naked Pictures in My Facebook News Feed
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I Can't Wait...
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Tuples are my Favorite Python Feature
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Songs About Cars
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Trash the Dress
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Microsoft Volta: Turning Traditional Web Development On It's Head
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Is Facebook to Blame for Privacy Violating Beacon Affiliates?
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Facebook: Placing Needs of Developers Over Needs of Users
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In Memoriam
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ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) Transforms SQL Server into an Atom Store
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Slippery Slopes and Privacy on the Web
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RSS Bandit (Phoenix) Progress Report: December 2007 Edition
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Natural Sort in IronPython vs. C# 2.0
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Some Thoughts on the Opening of the Facebook Platform Architecture
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Some Thoughts on the AT&T Tilt
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Office Live Workspace: A Better Solution than Google Docs?
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2007: The Year Google Jumped the Shark
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I Signed Up for Twitter
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New Version of RSS Bandit this Weekend
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Amazon SimpleDB: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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The Facebook Effect: Google Reader Violates User's Privacy
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Congratulations to Justin Rudd
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Command Line Client for Google Reader in IronPython
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