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WARNING: Liveblogging. post will update and change over the next half hour. Prone to error, typos and horrible grammar. Ah, the cat and mouse game. Loïc is trying to chase down some hard information from Charlie Kindel, the GM of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Ecosystem at Microsoft. Loïc keeps
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(Liveblogging – prone to error, typos and inaccuracy. And possible bias in this session…) Starting the second day of Like Minds in the Delighting Users session, and feeling slightly suspicious, because I’ve just realised that it’s essentially a Windows Phone 7-derived session. That said, the new mobile OS has
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Liveblogging: errors and typos likely Peter Bale of Microsoft UK, whose building we’re sitting in is kicking off the conference, and he’s promised us it won’t just be a product pitch. Why are we doing this? For the audience. Within the UK audience there are many niches,
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Stuff I’ve had in tabs for ages: - [A lesson in statistics for journalists](http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1271) – linked for truth - [Stop Selling Scarcity](http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/02/08/stop-selling-scarcity-2/) – Jeff Jarvis has another pick at the fundemental truth that people in
Ha! Less than 24 hours after I made the comparison between Google and newsagents [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/12/the_murdochgoogle_phony_war.html] in yeterday’s post, Matt Brittin, managing director of Google UK, makes that very same point in front of a committee of MPs: >
For example, OpenID is a profile web address that you can use to login to any site that supports it. OpenSocial solves the desire to use any app on any site on the web, with the same people relationships and profile data you have elsewhere. Apps written for this standard
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[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2008/12/Lo%C3%AFc%20and%20Geraldine-1148.html] And so, Le Web 08 gets underway. Loïc and Geraldine kicked things off slightly late, as they struggled to drag people away from the (rather good) coffee and croissants. The mood of the conference is rather
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Markets collapse and rebuild, he suggested. That’s when you can have real change. Silverlight? It’s a front and centre tech at Microsoft. Cross-platform and cross-browser. Is Microsoft warm and cuddly, now, with all this cross-platform, open standards stuff? “A little bit.” Are they going to buy Twitter? “I
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Because we’ve been discussing it in the office this morning: Count how often Mr Scoble [http://scobleizer.com/] mentions that he suggested something to Microsoft… [![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/02/reblog_c.png?w=960)](http://reblog.zemanta.
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[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/logo_main_sl.gif] You can download a beat of Microsoft’s challenge to flash video at the Silverlight site [http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/]. It’s cross-platform and cross-browser compatible, which is a pretty major step for everyone’s favourite convicted monopolists.
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Computerworld: Microsoft pledges support for OpenID [http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;663927132;fp;2;fpid;1]” > Microsoft has thrown its weight behind OpenID, an emerging Web authentication standard. The announcement was made Tuesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco during a joint keynote by Microsoft
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Post-coffee, we’ve got a panel of people from the big online players discussing whether size matters in this market. We’ve had a chap from Microsoft admitting that they need to be more agile, and that the Live series of products is an answer to that. The majority of
