Author: Vince Kimball

Microsoft's new IM Server. “Microsoft Readies Messaging Server – Development ends on Office Live Communications Server, shipping in weeks.” (PCWorld.com) With instant messaging functionality not having been included within Exchange 2003 as it was with Exchange 2000, the Live Communications Server 2003 is Microsoft's… [MS Exchange Blog]

Exchange 2000 Rollup Patch. Another Exchange 2000 Post-Service Pack 3 Rollup Patch has been released… it “resolves problems that were found in Exchange 2000 since SP3 was released.”… [MS Exchange Blog]

More RPC over HTTP info…. Paul Robichaux has written a piece on the exciting new Outlook/Exchange 2003 feature that we mentioned a few days ago 'RPC over HTTP,' for Exchangeadmin.com. “…..Another solution, of course, is to use RPC-over-HTTP to connect your Outlook 2003 clients to… [MS Exchange Blog]

The origin of personas. Alan Cooper shares the background of Cooper's personas, but fails to acknowledge the considerable contributions of others to the concept. In particular, Geoffrey Moore describes very clearly the technique of archetypal users working through scenarios in 1991's Crossing the Chasm, and Victor points out other contributors to the technique from within… Continue reading The origin of personas

OpenAM. Alf Eaton has released a new version of OpenAM – his Amazon review tool. The return of OpenAm. Thanks for the feedback – here's the return of OpenAm! The OpenAm service is for easy linking to books on the Amazon site (music and DVDs to come – the web services don't allow that yet).… Continue reading OpenAM

Her comes Tribe.net. The Tribe.net has entered into a v 1.1 beta stage, where it's working out the kinks and getting it's act together.  Here's Ross Mayfield's assesment.  One cool thing is that Tribe.net is NOT closed.  Anyone can go to it – browse around in “lurk” mood and join – if they wish. Of… Continue reading Her comes Tribe.net

Kevin Dente notes that Microsoft has released an SDK for accessing microsoft.com downloads.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Just saw that the .NET Webloggers are outdoing themselves with posting links of useful stuff for developers. Guys, will you please knock it off? I can't read all this cool stuff!  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

RSS to replace email? Nah.. I've heard a lot about how Outlook 2003, both alone and in combination with Exchange Server 2003, has been beefed up to fight the war on spam. From a client-only perspective, it doesn't look too promising. Apart from filtering messages that have been externally processed — for example, by SpamAssassin… Continue reading RSS to replace email? Nah.

Well-formed writing and information routing. The tagging conventions I've been applying for the last four months are really springing to life, now that structured search of my blog is available. For example, my convention has been to write quotations like so: … [Jon's Radio]