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Live Services plugin for Moodle

Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:31 AM by alogan
Moodle is an online learning environment. The team at Microsoft Education Labs released a cool plugin for Moodle (in PHP) which allows you to sign in using Live ID, to access your Exchange inbox/calendar, IM other people doing the same course and easily Read More...
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Windows 7 has RTM’d

Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:11 AM by alogan
I’ve been using Win7 for months. When combined with Office 2010 technical preview its an amazing experience. Read the official post here and press release REDMOND, Wash. — July 22, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) Read More...
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Windows Live Messenger loves scripters too: how to get it in your PHP web app

Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:05 AM by alogan
James Senior just posted about a new PHP tutorial for the Messenger Web Toolkit : A common misconception is that the cool functionality in the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit is only available to developers who are using the Microsoft web platform Read More...
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Nice UX on AT&T around privacy policy changes

Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 5:23 AM by alogan
This is a pretty slick way of highlighting policy changes without requiring an additional click (if the lawyers let you do that). Read More...
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Computer generated art “Un-productivity Suite”

Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:52 AM by alogan
I’m glad we announced the Office 2010 Technical Preview as I’ve been holding onto this vintage piece of computer generated art for a while. For me Outlook and Twitter could not be further apart in terms of impact on my productivity – one keeps the trains Read More...
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Brand soup? MSN, Windows Live, Bing

Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:55 AM by alogan
I went to my first Social Media Club meet up in Seattle a few weeks ago – it was great fun. The question I got the most (aside from “ I’m looking for work, do you have any? ”) after introducing myself was “ you will be rebranding Windows Live to Bing, Read More...
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My pixels aren’t free ad space for your network – ‘Connecting’ needs targeting

Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:32 AM by alogan
MySpace for music, Facebook for friends, LinkedIn & Plaxo for work contacts, Pandora & Last.fm for Music – these are what I call networks and I use them in lots of places. They are sticky and I store my data there. Every “ large network ” will Read More...
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Where are my keys??? ask the Facebook Newsfeed

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:39 PM by alogan
My favorite hangout in Seattle is the Noodle Ranch - Tonight it told me my buddy Benjamin had left his keys there. Read More...
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