At their professional developers’ conference that took place last week in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed the many ways it intends to extend its software services via the web.
In a long expected answer to Google Apps, the folks from Redmond demonstrated, for the first time, their new Web applications for Office, which are lightweight versions of [...]
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1. Rohit has a right good rant about Kellogg’s Lego Fun Snacks. Why do people hate marketers?
2. Jeremiah gives a interesting explanation of how VCs and tech analysts are similar yet different in their perspectives when engaging with entrepreneurs.
3. Chris Brogan has an excellent discussion going about defining web authority. There’s a lot of comments [...]
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I just spent 3.5 hours reading PR blogs. What an excellent way to while away a cold damp Saturday morning. It’s tough to boil it down to just five favourites, but here goes.
1. Dave Jones has posted and invited us to steal his blog stats dashboard template. It seems to be a [...]
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Tuesday 17 June 2008 was a pretty important day in the Internet world.
It’s the day that Mozilla released Firefox 3, a new and improved version of its free web browser that has become the biggest rival of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. As part of Mozilla’s launch strategy, they planned an attempt to set a [...]
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Each month, I write up a round up of the previous month’s most popular posts on Strive Notes. Interestingly, this month only one of the fave five relates to PR…the rest are tech stories. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm. Perhaps we’re not engaging in the PR conversation the way we should be? I’ll think [...]
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When software behemoth Microsoft jumps on any one bandwagon, trends and fads immediately turn into real world propositions. So when our friends in Redmond revealed their new Live Mesh last month, software as a service (SaaS) had fully come of age.
Of course MS doesn’t use the SaaS category that we’ve all come to understand, instead [...]
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The Isle of Man’s BCS is holding a talk on Vista Windows Server 2008 on 13 May 2008. They’re bringing in someone from MS to discuss the new operating system that is designed for next gen networks, applications and Web services. 18.00 Claremont Hotel in Douglas. Admission is free. Everyone [...]
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It looks like the times they are a-changing for our good friends from Redmond, Washington.
The European Court of First Instance upheld the European Commission’s findings that Microsoft abused its dominant position by refusing to make its products operable with those of its rivals and by tying Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system. The [...]
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has unveiled the company’s first surface computing product — Microsoft Surface. Its supposed to be an innovation that will change the way people shop, dine, entertain and live.
Surface is a horizontal display on a table-like frame that goes from being an ordinary tabletop into a new tool for bringing digital [...]
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Take humour and mix in some thoughtful debate. Then add a pinch of sound advice. The result: this week’s reading round up! Here are my faves for this week, in particular order.
1. Drew B takes a look at how Web 2.0 is influencing politics. He pulls together a number of references about the UK Tory party’s [...]
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Over the past four weeks, I’ve met with reps from more than a dozen technology companies in the Isle of Man. I learned that the Island boasts a broad offering of software, hosting, business continuity, telecom and other services.
But one theme that came up time and again, in these conversations, was the challenge of building business [...]
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