December 20, 2006 – 3:39 pm
A few days ago Microsoft launched a new homepage. The major change was moving the navigation from the left hand side to the right hand side of the page. Microsoft have also created something akin to a browser within a browser when using this new navigation too.
The new homepage is less cluttered, most certainly, but [...]
December 13, 2006 – 6:53 pm
Well maybe not that drastic, but this report by C¦Net highlights the fact that Plasma TV’s do consume a huge wattage of power when compared to their LCD and CRT brethren. Clearly Plasma TV’s tend to be huge 40-50 inch monsters and larger than LCD’s, but inch for inch Plasma TV’s eat a lot more [...]
December 13, 2006 – 6:26 pm
Today I received this email from a colleague:
Simple but effective, Offsetmylife is a new site which allows people to carbon-offset any activity in their life, based upon a database of existing activities as well as the ability to create new ones.
This service is currently in test in the USA.
http://offsetmylife.com
What a fantastic concept.
So when I chose [...]
December 12, 2006 – 12:57 pm
I read this tremendous post on Seth Godin’s blog about a family get together where everyone had Xbox 360’s. The best part is that most of the people were in their 60’s.
At the weekend I impressed my niece and nephew (11 and 8 respectively) by demonstrating my knowledge of everything gaming, including Xbox 360, DS [...]
December 9, 2006 – 12:02 am
Hakia - First Meaning-based Search Engine
Read/Write Web have recently covered the Hakia search engine as the first in a series of articles about a new wave of search engines. The article begins:
” There has been a lot of talk lately about 2007 being the year when we will see companies roll out Semantic Web technologies.The [...]
December 8, 2006 – 11:09 pm
Borat endorses Flock!
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December 8, 2006 – 10:11 pm
I’ve not been evil this year. Could I have one of these please?
Gary
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December 8, 2006 – 4:58 pm
I logged into Window Live Mail today and noticed that the logo and branding of the Microsoft service has changed again. Now ‘Office Live Mail’ the service is otherwise unchanged. Microsoft could be experimenting on what brand Windows or Office to use for each of it’s online services. Interestingly Windows Vista does come with a product called [...]
December 8, 2006 – 12:02 am
The original Transformers movie is 20 years old. 20!! OMG. Is it really that long ago? Wow.
Anyway here’s the video for the song ‘The Touch’ by Stan Bush which is from the awfully good soundtrack for the movie. My brother bought me the LP when I was about 12. I don’t think to this day [...]
December 7, 2006 – 5:22 pm
Microsoft have whacked the slide decks for the recent Business Leadership in the 21st Century event onto the Web.
They’re here.
Warning.. Jeff Raikes’ presentation (probably the only one worth downloading) is 12MB.
There are no videos from the event although I know it was filmed. And I was actually on camera for a bit as I was [...]
