Looking forward to attending Future of Web Design in London in mid-April. The Academic team will be there in a "Student Zone" inside the MS stand area wanting to talk to designer students about how they use software and if we can help them or...

My first two videos on Channel 8 are now online. Yes, I do sound that weird (that's Northern Irish people for you) and talk a lot. But these guys all have done incredibly well out of the Imagine Cup and our student programs and their stories are worth...

...is so strong that I had umbrellas made for a recent event: (The pantone matches the nebula logo as well!) :-)

I'm a big fan of Last.fm and will be giving this a go on my home machine for listening to music. Last.fm Comes to Vista Media Centre ( Sarah Perez )

It's been a busy couple of months for the Imagine Cup and we have a good 200-odd students fighting it out for great prizes and the opportunity to travel to Paris (in style) to compete at the worldwide finals. And to celebrate the best year for the Imagine...

I work for the United Nations apparently. I work in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group at Microsoft, or DPE (or D&PE if you are in the US) and people have a uniform response internally and externally - "Eh?". This article on C...

Not wanting to steal Steve's thunder on great ads :-) but this was too cool not to share.... (From Seth Godin , marketing great) Lots of stuff like this recently is making me think we should do something "raw" like this for Channel 8 .

  It has all the usual gubbins you would expect from a community site with news, blogs, forums, training, links and more for anyone interested in the Expression product set and looking for information or inspiration http://expression.microsoft.com

Video: Microsoft Windows Live OneCare I'm only a day late for Paddy's day (disappointing for someone that heralds from Northern Ireland) so thought this was worth posting - http://www.getgreenstaygreen.com/ I've been using OneCare on my home machines...

Mel Carson just posted that the Microsoft had launched a new community around its adCenter platform . This is interesting for all those involved in the world of digital marketing and advertising. +1 subscriber from me :-) http://www.adcentercommunity...

http://www.microsoft.com/express   Features include: Animated landing pages Interactive menus to explore by product or interest area Interactive product tours for each version

I kept hearing the soundtrack to this and thinking why is everyone in the office watching Deliverance. Funny video exploring the roles of developers and designers in building software.

My mate Rob has started a blog on all things Silverlight. Not the dev or even the designer stuff but looking at Silverlight from a client/agency/media buyer/media owner perspective. A little blurb from Rob: "I was telling the marketing comms team...

This is what greeted 60 academics from around the UK today at our Silverlight for Academics event at the historic Bletchley Park. :-) What an amazing venue to hold an event - so much history here and I haven't even been on the tour yet. I talked to a...

New site/community launches for Windows Vista Ultimate users to showcase the amazing things that real people do with their Vista PCs. Will also have discounts and offers on software/hardware for Ultimate users. (Lucky I picked up Ultimate for my family...

Bit slow off the mark on this one as I was travelling north yesterday (wish I was travelling west to Mix :-)). Seems Silverlight is coming to mobile devices and to Nokia first. Very cool. Roberto D'Angelo has the detail . Scoble raises a fun question...

Following on from my post last week about the new UK site built using Silverlight here is another video (been around a bit longer than the UK site): ( Obligatory sappy marketing digital lifestyle post from LiveSide ) Prefer the original Ash version (given...