Paul Mooney

Coding4Fun

When AutoCorrect Goes Bad
Our own Dan Fernandez shows how to have fun by adding some "interesting" entries into Microsoft Word’s AutoCorrect feature. Now Catch Dan's article and video demonstration.   

Shattering Screen Saver!
DirectX Guru Andy Dunn (The ZMan) works his visual magic again in this application that captures your desktop screen image then runs it as a screen saver. The prank comes when your victim sees the screen appear to crack and shatter like glass!  

MSN Search Spoof

April fools day comes but once a year, so make it a memorable one with a little help from MSN Search Spoof. Have fun!

Search Macros

What are Search Macros?
Search Macros are a feature of Live Search that make results more relevant for a given search topic.  This is done by easily using, creating and sharing customized sets of search engine rules.

Technically speaking, a Search Macros are custom, user-created groups of search operators built with the Live Search query language (see ‘Symbol reference’ and ‘Keyword reference’ in our help section). Macros are stored on our servers and are available to any user on live.com.  All macros can be used by anyone completely anonymously.

Build Your Own Search Engine, sounds like a great idea!

Why MSN Search?

Download the MSN Search SDK

Getting Started Creating the next generation of search-enabled applications.

Webcast: Andy Edmonds and Erik Selberg - Frank talk about MSN Search

DevConnections 3.0

DevConnections is taking on the world, after the hugely successful Las Vegas DevConnections last November it's back to Orlando next week then Nice France for the 24-27th of April....Ou la la....

A SharePoint Connections has been added in Orlando, so if you sign up for ASP.Net, SQL Connections or Visual Studio Connections you can attend any session among the four conferences.....la grande valeur!

Scott Guthrie, is giving the Keynote and hopefully he'll do his amazing Mix06 demo.

Keep an eye on the DevConnections blog for updates, news and photos from Orlando.

Tag This

Tags: Microsoft - Mix06 - microformats - structured blogging

Mix06 was full of great content and new ideas from Microsoft and many of the speakers and participants who gathered in the desert last week  The  microformats and structured blogging BOF meeting had the air of a clandestine public assembly because soon after Marc Canter and Tantek Celik declared the taggers manifesto we were seen as an unlawful public assembly as we were dispersed by the casino police..

Marc has been traveling the planet promoting microformats, microcontent and structured blogging, saying there is no need for standards wars, so who's tags are we to trust?

Will tags bring me more readers or will it just be a gift for the content catchers?

I taged three of my posts at Mix06  with a Technorati Tag, but not one made it to their site, looking at the blog posts caught there, I don't get a very good account of the conference.

I taged my photos at Flickr, but now so many photos of Las Vegas hotels and the action out on the strip have obscured the snaps of the conference I went to.

So is  microformats, microcontent and structured blogging a way to bypass the search engines and establish new portals created with our content?.

MIX06 a Hit

 SlideShow on BubbleShare

We live in exciting times, the Web is increasing in size, scope and complexity as we link, tag and create communities - this is our......mix06 .

The Identity Metasystem

We all know that Identity is very important, it's who we are. Kim Cameron has spent years thinking about identity, we all need to think about how we can authenticate ourselves in the virtual world of networked communication. Tokens, Tags, Metadata, URL's and certificates need to align like tumblers inside a lock to reveal just who we really are.

A Guide to Supporting InfoCard v1.0 Within Web Applications and Browsers 

Vista in '07

I got the news from Mary Jo Foley, she asked me if I heard the news.....looking as if someone had died...... I think I'll be OK   There is a MSN Spaces party tonight!

Business availability for Windows Vista in November 2006, consumer availability in January 2007.

REDMOND, Wash. — March 21, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that Windows Vista™, the next generation of the Windows^® client operating system, is on target to go into broad consumer beta to approximately 2 million users in the second quarter of 2006. Microsoft is on track to complete the product this year, with business availability in November 2006 and broad consumer availability in January 2007.

Steve Lohr's not at MIX06

Yesterday was an exciting day here at MIX06 with a fun keynote and great demos of software appellations that live on the Web. There are Labs and Ultra-Mobile demos, XBOX 360's, Media Center PC's and all the plasma you come to expect in Las Vegas.

Arriving on sight early this morning I jumped on the Wi-Fi and checked the email. After working my way through a bunch of blogs I turned to the NYTimes and was stunned to read Steve Lohr's bitter account of what was going on here in the neon city of the desert.

Microsoft Develops Version of Internet Software Tools

Not a word about Tim O'Reilly's conversation with BillyG and not one nice thing to say about ASP.Net, Atlas or Vista. Steve does mention Scott Dietzen of Zimbra whom I met last week at SXSW. Zimbra makes a web based email and calendaring system that’s adequate for running a small business, but it's no Exchange killer. Zimbra uses AJAX, something that was developed by Microsoft, Atlas is the next generation of asynchronous interactive technology .

Have a look at Virtual MIX and see what is going on here at mix06 .

Atlas Community

"Atlas" is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, highly personalized standards based Web applications.
This new Web development technology from Microsoft integrates client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 server-based development framework. In addition, 'Atlas' offers you the same type of development platform for client-based Web pages that ASP.NET offers for server-based pages. And because 'Atlas' is an extension of ASP.NET, it is fully integrated with server-based services. “Atlas” makes it possible to easily take advantage of AJAX techniques on the Web and enables you to create ASP.NET pages with a rich, responsive UI and server communication. However, "Atlas" isn’t just for ASP.NET. You can take advantage of the rich client framework to easily build client-centric Web applications that integrate with any backend data provider.

There's much going on here everyday with Blogs, Forums and the start of a community.

ASP.Net/Atlas    

Windows Live Developer Center

Welcome to the Windows Live Developer Center
The Windows Live Platform puts a deeper level of control into developers' hands by offering access to the core services and data through open, easily accessible APIs. Start building applications and mashups today with Windows Live.

Business Opportunities with Live Services
Combine your innovation with the power of Windows Live services, then plug into a business model that will help you share in the growing revenue base of online advertising and subscription services.

We got the word today at Mix06 about the just launched Windows Live Developer Center....Platform and Services for Web MashUps......a three year old with a big box of crayons? Or a new way to connect with friends family and customers.

Get Ready for IE7

We're moving the floor and pushing the ceiling..

Open API's

Marc Cantor calling for open API's on MSN' MySpace's........yea we need open API's....

Mix06 vs Web 2.0

Tim gave everything he had, but Bill was masterful in delivering context and solutions to each inquiry. It was a intense exchange without pauses or glitches and no quarter....

The Programmable Web

The start of the programmable web......... watch the Webcast

Virtual MIX

Welcome to Virtual MIX – a place where those not attending or attendees that can’t be everywhere at once, can catch all the action at MIX06!

Throughout the conference, Virtual MIX will offer a deeper look into the range of Web technologies from Microsoft including videos of partner and customer participants, audio, photos, links to commentary from Microsoft bloggers and more! Be sure to visit when the conference starts to access all this information -- you can also subscribe to the RSS feeds to have it delivered right to you.

Upcoming Webcast! Bill Gates Keynote at MIX06