blending the mix

I’ve been meaning to post something about David’s book for ages, but when Steve put up the Crowdsurfing video today, it kind of made sense to put it up today also.
David gives a pretty good summary to the Crowdsurfing by recounting the story of how Microsoft is allowing (and continues to allow) employees such as […]

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Something last week took me back to Steve’s post, and how PC design was turning the corner (despite IBM’s Thinkpad trying its best to bring back brick-based laptop design) and I decided to republish a post I wrote a year and a day ago regarding the “fad” that is Mac and why the battle Microsoft […]

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Note: even though Silverlight didn’t work at the time, I was blown away with plenty in his demo (Seadragon, Deep Zoom, Mesh) so all good in the end!

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I got wind of this yesterday evening whilst in a sub-notebook Mac and UMPC frenzy and was utterly surprised at just how innovative it was:

When Bill said this week that touch was the future for Microsoft (but didn’t Ballmer say online advertising was the future?!) he probably underestimated just how far things have come […]

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UK Windows Live Hotmail Product Manager Jo Wickremasinghe (god, I hope I got that right!) presented some of Microsoft’s latest developments regarding the addressing of spam and suggested what we as email marketing professionals can do ensure deliverability for our clients to Windows Live Hotmail (WLH) inboxes.
In short, Jo’s seminar was by far […]

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Steve pointed me over to this tonight and I am amazed.
I feel like I have become a bit of a Microsoft evangelist of late, but my recent discoveries of their products have blown me away.
Check the screen shot out and look at the online demo.

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Steve Clayton point to Greg Stirling’s thoughts on the Microsoft buy-in to Facebook being about Live Search but I can’t help but think Greg’s quotation is wrong.
With the several billion-dollar investment and acquisitions MS has made recently in advertising and tying up with what Mr. Ballmer was saying about how Microsoft wants a significant stake […]

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Techcrunch reports tonight that Microsoft are looking to invest between £150-£250million in Facebook for a 5% stake. This values Facebook at around £5billion! The WSJ reckons Facebook are holding out for around £7.5 billion - certainly a damn sight more than Yahoo’s original £500million!
Anyway, what makes this move really exciting is that it enables Microsoft […]

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Dave Winer, in his first-month report on his experience with the iPhone makes an extremely good obvservation about not just the iPhone, but mobile web browsers in general.
“there’s the limit of how much detail our eyes can see and how big our hands are”
And he is absolutely right. PDA’s have been around for long enough and developed by […]

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Thanks to Steve Clayton for the hat-tip of Jon Ive’s amazing design work put together by Edwin Tofslie.(via core 77)
This is awesome and goes right to the heart of why people perceive Apple as a superior software manufacturer. The vehicle which carries Apple’s software LOOKS infinitely better than the grey PC boxes!
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