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		<title>The Email Standards Project</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/12/07/the-email-standards-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
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The Email Standards Project has been launched to highlight the need for consistency across email clients. Anyone who&#8217;s ever had the misfortune of producing html email campaigns will know the pain involved in getting a consistent look across the many possible clients. I blogged back in January about how bad Microsoft Outlook is at rendering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debugging LINQ in web applications.</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/12/03/debugging-linq-in-web-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/12/03/debugging-linq-in-web-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ASP.NET]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing around with LINQ quite a lot recently following the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5.
LINQ is an OR/M (object relational mapper) for C# and VB.NET, these videos by Beth Massi give a good introduction to LINQ and show just how powerful it is.
A lot of LINQ to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MindMeister - online collaborative mindmaps</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/11/20/mindmeister-online-collaborative-mindmaps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/11/20/mindmeister-online-collaborative-mindmaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across MindMiester today, a nifty ajax app for producing MindMaps online which has been created by German company codemart.

I&#8217;ve been looking for something like this for a while, I&#8217;m a big fan of using MindMaps for scoping out projects of all sizes and have quite a few of Tony Buzans books on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo introduce NOYDIR Meta tag to compliment NOODP</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/02/28/yahoo-introduce-noydir-meta-tag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/02/28/yahoo-introduce-noydir-meta-tag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search (SEO/SEM)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! today announced support for a new &#60;meta&#62; tag which allows you to opt out of having Yahoo! directory snippets appearing under your natural search results in Yahoo! search. Up until now site owners had no control over whether the snippet text was taken from the Yahoo! directory or from &#60;meta name=&#8221;description&#8221; &#8230; &#62; tags [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backlink feature added to Google Webmaster Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/02/06/backlink-feature-added-to-google-webmaster-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/02/06/backlink-feature-added-to-google-webmaster-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/02/06/backlink-feature-added-to-google-webmaster-tools/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Google team have added a great new feature to the Google Webmaster Tools. The Links tab which has been added to the top nav in the GWT console allows you to view internal and external backlinks to your site(s).
Google&#8217; link: command has been unreliable for some time, often returning a very small subset of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates on Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/30/bill-gates-on-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/30/bill-gates-on-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates appearance to plug Windows Vista on The Daily Show.


&#8220;5 Million people tested the beta version of Vista&#8221;

Maybe you should have made that 10 million Bill, that way your product may just have been ready to use.
I ran the final version of Vista Ultimate for about a month before finally giving in and reverting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 reasons that web 2.0 isn’t being adopted by etailers</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/29/5-reasons-that-web-20-isnt-being-adopted-by-etailers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/29/5-reasons-that-web-20-isnt-being-adopted-by-etailers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[e-commerce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Read/WriteWeb had a great post on what amazon.com have done so far with Web 2.0. Amazon.com really are the exception to the rule and the big e-tailers seem to be avoiding Web 2.0 like the plague - especially here in the UK (the article above points out that only amazon.com has any Web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top ten mistakes in web design (updated)</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/11/top-ten-mistakes-in-web-design-updated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/11/top-ten-mistakes-in-web-design-updated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search (SEO/SEM)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[accessiblity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[xhtml]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/11/top-ten-mistakes-in-web-design-updated/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jakob Nielsen has updated his Top ten mistakes in web design document for 2007 an its well worth a read. Nielsen is quite often seen as too &#8220;hard line&#8221; and his ideas are often seen as too restrictive to work in practice but I think this list of ideas and suggestions is something that every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTML emails in Outlook 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/10/html-emails-in-outlook-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/10/html-emails-in-outlook-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[xhtml]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New version of MS Outlook uses Word to render HTML!
Creating HTML emails that work across the board has always been a black art. Producing HTML pages that work consistently across multiple browsers is challenging enough but when it comes to generating markup that works with most email clients, you&#8217;re in a whole new league.
Microsoft have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year from George Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/09/happy-new-year-from-george-michael/</link>
		<comments>http://www.highly-visible.net/2007/01/09/happy-new-year-from-george-michael/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonratcliffe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seasons greetings from pops best known pothead
I got this in my inbox about 5 minutes ago:

Happy New Year my dear,
I know that you will be surprise reading from unknown person but all I will like you to understand is that, God have already bless you and your entire family in this 2007 through this proposal. [...]]]></description>
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