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MS Frontpage was long known (and often derided) for its tendency to walk all over web standards. It looks like this is about to change. [Best Tech Videos On The Net](http://www.bestechvideos.com/) (which incidentally is a great place for finding new Tech Videos) has just published a set of videos and demos from [Microsoft MIX07](http://visitmix.com/). One of these that I’ve just watched concerns how the new version of [Microsoft Visual Studio (ORCAS)](http://www....

Another hero on video. This time Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the WikiWikiWeb, interviewed by John Gage of Sun Microsystems at the Computer History Museum. As well as Wiki, Ward discusses other key developments, such as Class-Resources-Collaboration (CRC) cards, Software Design Patterns and Extreme Programming. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7739076742312910146&hl=en-GB

While doing some vaguely formulated research today (it is a Bank Holiday so vagueness is allowed!), I did a search for Wiki on [Google video](http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=wiki) today and came across this video of a presentation by Jeremy Ruston (developer of [TiddlyWiki](http://www.tiddlywiki.com/)) recorded (I believe – the video description is a bit unclear) at a meeting on social software held in Vienna last year. You can’t see the slides, but it is clear that, for documentation, Jeremy has no love for the standard office tools and makes a good case for [wikis](http://www....

[](http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/cpjobling/FreshAndCrispy/photo?authkey=heoth6zZyFY#5066259224770454226) Me wearing my birthday present Ahlem sent me a Birthday present which I’m wearing in this picture. I’m watching the FA cup final. The text, which comes from an episode of the Simpsons is: C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN Renate took the photo!

Today, I’ve been mostly watching Google videos! Aside from the previously blogged video on the death of the desktop I’ve also watched Brion Vibber’s Google Tech Talk on Wikipedia and the MediaWiki software that drives it. Also from Google Video was this Documentary on Open Source available on Google Video: > “Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements....