Marc: My Words

Forget all that social media mumbo jumbo that gets passed around these days. What you need is an excellent guide (via SmashingApps ) on How To Become A Famous Blogger.

Couldn't resist buying one of these bad boys on the way back to the UK yesterday - the Samsung SP-H03 portable projector. It's a tiny little cube, does 16:9 at 854x480, has 1GB of internal memory and it's a joyful little cube of fun. ( Better review here...

Spotted by my mate Marty - excellent cover (or reimagining as I believe the TV parlance is these days).

There was a bunch of interesting stuff at Picnic10 but this was probably my favourite toy (a serious toy in this case). Essentially it's a small friendly PC under the hood that looks like an old electronic battleship game and uses objects with RFID tags...

I didn't see last year's Microsoft stand but I heard it was very cool. This year it's made of cardboard and Tom and Jan Willem (the doodlers - not sure that's their official title) are spending time doodling on it over the event. They explain more here...

My favourite person so far is this guy who I chatted to for a while about online video. Nice portable rig! (Though I'm loving the video and audio on my own NEX-5).

Thanks to @katzy I'm ensconced at #picnic10 in Amsterdam billed as a conference about redesigning the world/life/media/journalism and so on asking the question "What are you bringing?". I was intrigued to come out here as I'd heard the festival...

Did we launch something yesterday? Oh yes… that was it… the IE9 beta. It’s been an interesting time playing with the platform previews since IE9 was announced at MIX and it was great to get access to the browser chrome and development capabilities. You...

If your triple-shot skinny orange Frappucino hasn’t done the business and woken you up this morning, then perhaps a quick blast on this IK remake will help (sadly not IK+ with its Blue player and backflips…). Same pumping 8-bit tunes too.

Simon continues to be impressed by Windows Intune (our cloud based desktop management service) - as do the people he talks to about it. He's produced a nice video showing the install process:

Our man @odedran points us to a Windows Phone 7 advert that was shown at #SecretCinema .

Not sure how I missed these videos but discovered them via SwissMiss and they are awesome. I opted for the Sony over the Olympus, but hey ho. PEN Story

Staying on a gaming tip (sort of - was thinking AI), then I saw someone tweet about Infer.NET a couple of weeks ago (sorry, can't remember who). "Infer.NET is a framework for running Bayesian inference in graphical models" which means you can...

And even better than "Also Available In White". Art on dirty cars. (via Clementine )

Like cooking? Like science? Like mixing them up a bit? Well, the inspirational and insightful Danah Boyd ( @zephoria ) points us to the interesting looking “Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks and Good Food ”. It gets some excellent reviews too...

As we inch closer to the release of Windows Phone 7 then it’s worth recapping on some bits and pieces. Firstly, in the UK both @MikeOrmond and @PaulFo are out and about looking to help you with application testing and deployment. Take a look at this post...

Apparently the best method to get rid of old marks on a whiteboard is to go over them again with another marker, and then rub them off. Bizarre but it works as Ben has the most gleamingest whiteboard in the office and I have an old ToDo list from 2006...