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5/30/2007


Evening Reading: 5/30/07

There's a new version of Windows Live Writer available for download.  Lots of new features.  Kevin Briody likes it.  Why in the hell does it flash every time I add a link to a post?  It's User Account Control (which I long ago disabled) all over again.

Mahalo launched today.  Steven Streight has a good write up on it, as does Mashable.  Mahalo says it's:

the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Our Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven't yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results.

There's a page for Scoble, one for Guy.  None for Seth.  Or me.  Seems oddly familiar....  Anyway, why does a search for wolves return NOFX (whatever that is), Kevin Costner and Instapundit as 3 of the 4 links?

Scott Karp has a good summary of the CBS/Last.fm business.  It's about the declining radio ad dollar.  One of these days someone is going to start looking for a return on all this money old media is tossing around trying to become new media.

I was a guest on Dave Wallace and Mike Seyfang's The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show podcast tonight.  It was an absolute blast!  I'll link to the episode when it's up.

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Kent show's up.

http://extraordinary.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/05/31/the-extraordinary-everyday-lives-show-027-kent-newsome/

Dave

By Anonymous Dave - lifekludger, at 5/31/2007 2:32 AM  
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Since you mentioned WLW, I saw that (Computer Zen) programmer Scott Hanselman provides an introduction on how WLW can be "customized" for additional features (if you know code):

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 - DasBlog and the Customization API

In his example, he provides some examples on using the Windows Live Writer Provider Customization API

Quoting "Beta Two of Windows Live Writer introduces a set of APIs which can be used by weblog providers to customize both the capabilities of Writer as well as add new capabilities to the Writer user-interface."

This API customization intrigues me...wonder what other secrets and cool things we will be seeing cross-developed for WLW? And I am not talking about WLW-Addons either!

I find it kinda amazing that Microsoft is opening WLW up for this "tinkering" by others.

Security issues or unimagined features? Maybe both? I just thought it interesting.

What I wouldn't give to read the meeting notes from the WLW development team....

By Anonymous Claus V, at 5/31/2007 7:28 PM  
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Thanks for the link to my post on Mahalo, which is not ready for users yet.

You may get some weird SERPs until the administrators and technicians work out the bugs, get more link recommendations, etc.

Spock also is in strange shape, as we learn better how to tag and submit.

By Blogger steven edward streight, at 5/31/2007 7:36 PM  
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