Daniel Wissa

John Downsa 4th year Comp Sci and Psychology student in 2006 will be the next Student Ambassador for Auckland University and has recently started blogging. If you follow the NZ.NET student list you may have read his introduction of himself, but if not you can see it here Pleasedrop by his blogand say hi. I’m sure John will be a great successor for the previous Auckland Student Ambassadors. Welcome to blog world John, hope to see you blogging more soon.…

Was just reading about a new tool released by Microsoft Research; SNARF; this tool integrates with your email client in order to allow you to sort (social sort)your email based on how often you send or receive emails from contacts. Sounds like a nice idea to me, will try it out now. To get it go here And for the article on PCWorld about it, see here Will post my experiences soon……

Ferritis now online at last. Initial rumors (at least the ones I heard) were that it will be an alternative to TradeMe. But it doesnt look anything like TradeMe yet. It looks more like a supersized online shop to me – not a bad idea either – perhaps with more products available for sale it could kick off well. Only think I dont like from my first impressions is that they site display is a bit too busy. *Update: *ok, I’ve just registered an account with Ferrit to check what benefits members get, well the main thing is that you…

Microsoft is now developing RSS into making it a two way street. I firstly read about this on Ray Ozzie’s (MS CTO) blog hereand now just found an article about this on PCWorld. “*Microsoft is extending the popular RSS 2.0 Web syndication format to make it “multidirectional,” allowing it to be used for synchronizing information such as contacts and calendar entries across different applications, the company says. * Web sites that support Really Simple Syndication *(RSS) feeds. When content on a site is updated, the RSS feed informs the subscriber, often with a summary of the updated content…

I just read that Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s CTO has started blogging. It’s nice to see senior people at large corps like MS blogging. I’m sure his blog will be an interesting read. See it hereand here is a little bio of Ray.…

This looks really funky!, probably not as good as the ipod family yet, but looks very stylish, should be seeing more of it soon I reckon. For details about it see the Sony website here …