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Podcasts

056 – Paolo Barone on academia, XNA, Silverlight, Twitter and Windows 7

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In this show, I’m joined by Microsoft Academic Evangelist Paolo Barone. We talk about Paolo’s role promoting Microsoft and .net in academia, XNA, Silverlight, Twitter and close with a chat about Windows 7. You’ll also get a chance to hear my [dreadful] attempt to close the podcast in Paolo’s native language!

During our chat about Twitter and Windows 7, we noted that Steven Sinofsky was very open to community feedback…hopefully this short recording is enough to convince Steven to join us all on Twitter where feedback is almost constant, first-hand and directly addressable!

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/056-Paolo-Barone.mp3

Resources
Paolo’s blog
Paolo on Twitter
Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group

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055 – Andrew Burnett on SEO, Twitter, Talk 107

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In this show, Andrew Burnett shares his experiences of Search Engine Optimisation, Twitter and radio broadcasting. Andrew’s claim to fame, or “ego stroke” as Andrew refers to it in the podcast, is appearing at the top of a list of Top 83 tweets of 2008!

Twitter to implement OAuth?
I mentioned Twitter authentication in this podcast. Specifically I was thinking about OAuth. Further information can be found here and here.

This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/055-Andrew-Burnett.mp3

Resources
Andrew Burnett Webarchitecture
Andrew on Twitter
Zappos
Zappos on Twitter
Being Visible, Or My Theory On Avatars
Loic Le Meur on Twitter

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Security, Social Networking

Regulate the Internet? The banks were regulated…

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I don’t usually dive into the political sector in this blog, however since this topic has a technology theme about it, I’m making an exception!

In a recent newspaper interview, Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) expressed his desire to regulate the Internet. Mike Butcher over at TechCrunch does a good job of writing up, so I won’t bore you with my musing on the subject. Mike’s article can be found here: UK government wants to regulate the Inter Tubes

Of course, we know that the same Government-owned civil servants were responsible for regulating the UK banking system, look what happened to that. It’s probably fair to say that if the Government wants to regulate something, it has have a demonstrable track record and it really should finish what it started with the banking crisis.

Until the Government realise that regulation isn’t necessarily the answer, send your comments about regulating the Internet to Andy via his recently set up Twitter account (30/12/2008 update: this account is now suspended, presumably awaiting the real Andy Burnham to claim it…how long will we have wait?)

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054 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Twelfth the in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!


Badge facing inwards, clever security move, very clever. Oh, and that’s the huge Christmas tree in Building 2 at TVP as mentioned in the podcast!

“I wanted to scare the hell out of myself”

As many readers and listeners will know Stephen Lamb moved from his security role over to…well, a role in public relations. I for one wanted to know what Stephen does in his new role and I know a few other folks were keen to know too. Ten weeks into the new role, I happened to be in the same place as Steve…we grabbed a coffee, a comfortable sofa and recorded this: “30 minutes on the sofa with Steve”. I won’t spoil it for you, if you’re keen to understand Steve’s new role, this is well worth a listen!

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This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/054-Stephen-Lamb-II.mp3

Resources
Stephen’s blog
Stephen on Twitter

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Podcasts, Security, Social Networking

047 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter

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Fifth the in the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008!


Stephen, with the TVP Building 2 Christmas tree in the background!


“Identity management is important. As soon as folks know what you look like, every Santa and his elf want to podcast with you!”


One of Stephen’s sessions at the Birmingham launch (mentioned in the podcast!)

Heroes Happen Here

Earlier this year, 2008, Birmingham was host to the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here product launch. VBUG’s Andrew Westgarth and myself were allowed to roam around recording interviews with many of the Microsoft Executives and Microsoft evangelists!

In this podcast, we’re sitting on a comfortable sofa with Microsoft’s Stephen Lamb. Recorded in March 2008, it is before Stephen switched to his PR role, so the topic is security. However, HHH was a community event too, so we chat about community for a bit too.

I do have a more recent podcast with Stephen, recorded early December 2008. It covers Stephen’s new PR role and will be released as part of the Twelve Podcasts of Christmas!

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This podcast: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/047-Stephen-Lamb.mp3

Resources
Eileen’s blog
Andrew Fryer’s blog
Stephen Lamb’s blog
Viral Tapara’s blog

The Twelve Podcasts of Christmas 2008
01 – Kyle Baley on ALT.NET and Brownfield Development in .NET
02 – Aaron Parker on Microsoft Application Virtualisation
03 – Caroline Bucklow from IT4Communities: charitable software development
04 – Eileen Brown on IT Professionals, TechNet, Women In Technology & Girl Geek Dinners
05 – Stephen Lamb on security, community, Linux and Twitter
06 – Cristiano Betta on Geek Dinners
07 – David Yack and Jonathan Carter on ALT.NET, MVC and Community
08 – Andrew Fryer on SQL Server 2008 and “upgrade”
09 – Viral Tarpara on Collaboration, SharePoint, Open Source (Port 25) and Community
10 – Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationali[s|z]ation, VS2008, .net 3.5, C# language features
11 – Matt Dunstan on event management, “engagement” and life as an Application Platform Manager
12 – Stephen Lamb on his new role in marketing / PR

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Security, Social Networking

Twitterank – celeb or peon? @t_rank

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my Twitterank is 9999.99 http://twitterawesomeness.com/

Just a short post to remind users to be careful with their online credentials.

Twitterank appears to have grabbed the limelight (tonight, GMT) as one such web application that relies on folks wanting to be popular…or at least find out how popular (or not) they are in comparison to some metric that ranks them over other users.

However it’s basically a user-name and password harvesting mechanism. I have a suspicion that it’s a social experiment and all those passwords that were collected will not be used for anything dodgy. Whatever the truth, in the wrong hands the possibilities are endless – here are a couple to worry you: @blowdart and @camurphy

camurphy: @blowdart @dacort – true evilness would be to post random tweets from random victims…did I just say that out loud?

blowdart: @CAMURPHY @dacort Stuff like “I’m wearing my sister’s panties”. DO IT!

If you have received a Twitterank, my advice to you is that you change your Twitter password immediately. Once you’ve done that, any other places that you use that same password for, change it there too.

A safe parody of the site can be found here, courtesy of @dacort.

There’s more here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=163
http://mashable.com/2008/11/12/twitterrank/
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/11/twitterank-can-have-my-password-no.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/nov/13/twitter-password-security

If you must rank yourself, check out twitter.grader.com – it doesn’t need your password to give you some feel-good factor!

Oh, @t_rank, I’m still waiting for reply to this polite request!