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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:26 PM

GlaxoSmithKline and Microsoft Online Services

Filed under “stuff that happened while I was away” is this fairly important announcement that GSK is to deploy 100,000 seats of hosted services from Microsoft (they’d previously been on Notes). As ZDNet reports , it makes Google’s 15,000 seats at Genetech
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:34 PM

Gee, Software + Services Makes Sense

OK, so obviously I’m going to have a bit of a dig at Google suffering from a few problems on the email front (and apparently some weird stuff on the Groups front ). Of course this is because the typical news coverage they get is ‘ Ooh, they have a new
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:15 PM

Search Twitter from Windows 7

Awesome pointer from @simongdavies to integrating Twitter into Windows 7 search:
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:35 PM

Ultimate Steal

While we’re on the subject of good value, I was reminded of The Ultimate Steal : Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate at the price of £38.95 for students and staff at academic institutions. That's a pretty good deal: I’m a OneNote junkie so IMHO this is worth
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Friday, January 30, 2009 3:52 PM

Wigadoo, BizSpark, Seth Godin and 1st Birthday Parties

If you could see my office, then you’d know I sit in the same cluster as Lars . But you don’t so I’m mentioning it here. One of the handy things about sitting next to Lars (apart from the tidiness and general hospitality) is that he keeps me up to date
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Monday, January 26, 2009 10:36 AM

Twit T-w00t

I like Twitter , really I do, but I don’t go for all this commentary on its future as a platform. But when my good mate @voleshafter begins using it, and then (let’s leave @stephenfry and @wossy aside for a moment) Tim Lovejoy (sorry Tim, I couldn’t be
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:31 AM

SlideShare Office 2007 Addin

So no sooner have we really started to use SlideShare , then they publish an addin for Office 2007 – very handy indeed. More at TechCrunch .
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:34 PM

OreDev Presentation: Software + Services

Today, myself and Blooders presented on Software + Services on the Architecture track at OreDev (as previously mentioned). Our intention was to provoke some thought on the pressures on architects, and the drivers for Software + Services, and help architects
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:45 PM

WPF Twitter Search Kiosk Thing

Talking of great examples, MikeT had a crack at the Twistori thing that MikeO looked at but took a slightly different tack and employed WPF. He’s written the whole thing up as a 7-part (count ‘em) series. You can start here. Much as I love Silverlight,
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:49 AM

Creating a Silverlight Mesh-Enabled Application

I’m hoping that Katrien was inspired by the PDC BBC iPlayer demo that we worked on here, as she created this great step-by-step guide to building a Silverlight Mesh-Enabled Application . I’d like to tell you that it was a smooth for us when we were building
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:05 PM

New Live Betas!

I've been eagerly pressing F5 on the site for a couple of hours now , and they're finally up! Go, go, go!
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:07 AM

StackOverflow

I love StackOverflow.com . I’ll never be able to contribute of course as I’m knowledge-impaired but it’s a simple and hopefully effective idea – and a twist on the micro-blogging meme. As a gamer, I like the XBOX Achievement-style badge system . I hope
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:22 AM

iTunes Annoyances

I saw this article about the pain that iTunes can become on the Geekdad blog . All interesting points. What’s more interesting of course is that Russ is still a fan of the iPod despite these issues. As I am, and I imagine huge numbers of us are. So: Successful
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Friday, August 22, 2008 1:43 PM

That Photosynth Release

My feed reader seemed to have a lot of posts this morning. That’ll be the release of Photosynth then . Eileen has a great write-up of all of the useful keyboard shortcuts . Generally the reviews seem to focus on the cool factor of it. And of course it
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