Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Talk is Cheap and yet Our Words Are Weapons
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Some Thoughts on Choosing Partition Keys in Windows Azure's Table Storage
In my recent post on building a Twitter search engine on Windows Azure I questioned the need the expose the notion of both partition and row keys to developers on the platforms. Since then I've had conversations with a couple of folks at work that indicate that I should have stated my concerns m …
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Will the Online Identity War turn out like the XML Syndication War?
I've been spending some time thinking about the ramifications of centralized identity plays coming back into vogue with the release of Facebook Connect, MySpaceID and Google's weird amalgam Google Friend Connect. Slowly I began to draw parallels between the current situation and a different onl …
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Is "Follow" A Core Web 2.0 Pattern?
Last month James Governor of Redmonk had a blog post entitled Asymmetrical Follow: A Core Web 2.0 Pattern where he made the following claim Youre sitting at the back of the room in a large auditorium. There is a guy up front, and he is having a conversation with the people in the front f …
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My Holiday Project: A Twitter Search Engine Built on Windows Azure
I spent the last few days hacking on a side project that I thought some of my readers might find interesting; you can find it at I had several goals when embarking on this project As my day job is working on activity feeds in Windows Live, I wanted to prototype various search experie …
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The Myth of the Open Source Business Model
This morning, Jeff Atwood wrote a blog post about software piracy entitled My Software Is Being Pirated where he talks about how companies can deal with the fact that the piracy rate among their users could be as high as 90%. He writes Short of .. selling custom hardware that is r …
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Gears of War 2 on XBox 360: "disc unreadable" Woes
My wife bought me Gears of War 2 for Christmas from Amazon. So far I've been unable to get past the start screen of the game due to a This disc is unreadable error and attempting to install the game to the hard drive fails at 40% complete. This is the only game in my library that exhibits this pr …
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Wanna Work With Me?
Reading depressing layoff related blog posts like George Oates's Not quite what I had in mind and the Valley Wag's Laid-off Yahoos packing heat for Jerry Yang? reminded me that I've been meaning to post about open positions on our team for a while. The team I work for is responsible for the …
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In Response to "Is Computer Science Broken"?
In a post entitled CS Broke Joe Gregorio writes Computer Science, at a deep and fundamental level, is broken, and that applies not only to software but to hardware. One of the reasons that I have this feeling is that after programming for the past 25 years the field hasn't really changed …
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Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect: Google's Fear of Facebook will be their Undoing
A few days ago, the top news story on Techmeme was the fact that Google launched Google Friend Connect and Facebook announced the final version of Facebook Connect within minutes of each other. Reading up on both announcements it seems interesting to note how most of the coverage is about who w …
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Some Thoughts on Inline Comments in Activity Feeds
One feature that you will not find in Windows Live's What's New list, which shows a feed of a the activities from user's social network, is inline comments. A number of sites that provide users with activity feeds from their social network such as Facebook and Friendfeed allow comments to be mad …
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Windows Live Tip: Finding Recent Comments On Your Stuff
The place to find the most recent comments on your photos, blog posts, profile, files and shared favorites is http://profile.live.com/recentcomments. If you are like me and prefer to navigate from a central place like http://home.live.com, the screenshot below shows where to find the link to …
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Putting Users In Control of Their Activity Feeds in Windows Live
Giving users complete control of their online experience has always been a core tenet of Windows Live and this hasn't changed with the What's New list feature in Windows Live. This feature enables users to view an activity feed of what members of their social network are doing AND to provide an a …
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Windows Live Reviews on Twitter
So I've been constantly refreshing Twitter search for "Windows Live" and so far the comments on our latest release have been super positive. Here is a sampling of tweets from the last two hours slaguzman: @WindowsLiveWire I really like the new version of Windows Live! Keep up …
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What We Did Last Summer: Social Network Aggregation and Activity Feeds in Windows Live
As some of you know, last year I worked on the platform behind the What's New page on Windows Live Spaces which provides the similar functionality to the News Feed on Facebook. That was just our first run at the feature and almost immediately after our release there was some great feedback from v …
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Why I Love Twitter
Over the weekend, Tim O'Reilly wrote a post Why I Love Twitter where he talks about some of the things he finds compelling about Twitter. Here's my list Thanks to APIs, Everyone Experiences the Service Differently: Great social software fits itself into the lifestyle and personality of …
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Facebook Connect: Does Issuing Passports Make Facebook A Country?
My RSS reader is buzzing with a lot hype around Facebook's Connect this morning. The lead story seems to be the New York Times article entitled Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web which announces that a number of popular sites are about to adopt the technology. The article is excerpt …
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A Comparison of Amazon, Google and Microsoft's Cloud Computing Offerings
Scott Watermasysk has a great high-level comparison of the cloud computing offerings from Amazon, Google and Microsoft in his post Cloud Options - Amazon, Google, & Microsoft. Below are some excerpts from his review Amazon (AWS) Most mature offering of the three. Google (App …
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Alleged Twitter Security Issue: Doctor It Hurts When I Do That
then don't do that. I was somewhat amused by the following description of a "security flaw" in Twitter today from Brian Shaler in his post Twitter Security Issue where he writes I recently discovered a serious security issue on Twitter. Let me tell you the story. …
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Some Thoughts on Facebook Connect and CitySearch
Early this morning I found out that the new CitySearch beta site uses Facebook Connect to allow Facebook users to sign-in to the site and bring their social network with them to CitySearch. Below is a screenshot of the sign-in experience a user can choose sign-in with their Facebook c …
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Live Framework (LiveFX), Is it Microsoft's GData or Something More?
Disclaimer: What follows are my personal impressions from investigating the community technology preview version of the Live Framwork (LiveFX). It is not meant to be an official description of the project from Microsoft, you can find that here. At Microsoft's recent Professional Developer Con …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
