March 13, 2003

Andrei Kivilev mourned at Paris-Nice

This is very sad indeed … I just leared via Jeff Veen’s blog that cycling great Andrei Kivilev died yesterday after a fall during the third stage of the Paris-Nice bicycle race.

Andrei “burst onto the international scene when he finished fourth behind Lance Armstrong, Jan Ullrich and Joseba Biloki at the 2001 Tour de France.”

March 12, 2003

Blog Evangelism at work

I’ve begun my blog crusade at my new job. So, I’d like to welcome Promit Chakrabarti to the BlogSphere. Do keep an eye on his blog, because Promit is wicked smart — especially in the area of business process analysis … Oh yeah, and of course he knows a thing or two about a “Balanced Scorecard”

March 11, 2003

Searching the BlogSphere

This is pretty darn cool. Micah Alpern has released a Google BlogSphere search tool (w/source in PHP) that will search across all the sites whose RSS feeds are found in your OPML list.

I think Micah describes it best:
“Until the semantic web arrives the best method we have to understand a users point of view is to examine the RSS feeds they subscribe to. I currently read RSS feeds from over 70 websites. This list of RSS feeds includes friends, publications, and domain expects; all people whose opinions I value. If Googling my weblog is like searching by backup brain, then searching all sites in my RSS news aggregator is like searching the brains of people I respect and find interesting.” (link via Sebastien Paquet)

March 11, 2003

I’ll have Big Mac, Fries and McWiFi — hold the WEP

According to this MSNBC article: “McDonaldÂ’s restaurants in three U.S. cities will offer one hour of free high-speed [WiFi] access to anyone who buys a combination meal.” (via Scobleizer)

March 11, 2003

Dichotomy of Email

Interesting Slashdot thread that argues the effectiveness of email, which is in response to this article.

March 11, 2003

Bike New York: May 4, 2003

Registration for Bike NY 2003 is now open. Last year was a blast — The best out of the 5 times I’ve ridden in “The Great Five Boro Bike tour”.

Hopefully we’ll be able to assemble another good group of people to ride with.

If you’re interested in riding with us … feel free to comment on this post.

March 10, 2003

InfoPath Instant Love

Clemens Vasters seems to really dig InfoPath … some good quotes:

“On the surface, InfoPath is “just” a forms editor that allows you to build editable Forms for XML Schema, Web Services and Databases very quickly. From a technology perspective that’s very cool in itself, but the way InfoPath hides all of that behind its UI will simply make you say “Well, yes, that’s how it should be”. It’s really a no-nonsense data-capture and data-presentation centric variation of what could have been yet another feature of FrontPage that few people would have ever noticed, just because it’s UI is so simple. It’s all Office.”

March 10, 2003

SharePoint Portal Server “v2.0” Beta 2

Microsoft just released beta 2 of SPPS 2.0.

The Beta includes Office InfoPath integration, but I don’t have an Office 11 beta to test it against :-(

March 9, 2003

Google Hacks

A collection of Google Hacks on ResearchBuzz. (via Slashdot)

March 8, 2003

Roogle RSS Search Engine

Scott Johnson’s Roogle RSS Search Engine is starting to fillout nicely. (via Jeremy Zawodny)