In the latest Wired magazine, there was a fantastic article written by Evan Ratliff where he describes the process that he underwent to try to disappear for one month and hide from a series of electronic cyber-detectives. Besides the gripping details of the manhunt, I was amazed by how much information people can find out about…
I just read an article written by Caroline McCarthy from Cnet analyzing the number of videos watched by people in the US in February. The number comes out to 10 billion and is a 66% growth year over year. That is just remarkable. In typical Comscore style, there are some nice juicy data tidbits tidbits…
I arrived in Las Vegas this afternoon for the Blogworld Expo. It is the blogging conference of the year and has some seriously high profile bloggers presenting as well as exhibiting. Blogworld was a conference that I asked the Windows Live team to participate in because I knew that it was THE OPPORTUNITY to showcase…
So my father went out the other day and bought an iPhone and he loves it. He even switched from Verizon to AT&T to do it. It isnt surprising since the iPhone is definitely targeted at him. Great UI, synchs with Mac and iTunes (both of which he has), and it is pretty damn cool….
After denying the need for a bluetooth headset for over three years, I finally succumbed (Live Writer is telling me it is spelled correctly but I am not sure) to the need to buy one for driving, so I bought the Jawbone. It is the only one that the people in the Cingular store recommended because it supposedly…
Although I have had a bunch of people texting me about how great the iPhone is, I wont pass any judgement until I actually get one that a friend bought in my hands. However, you have to see this video from the today show hosts trying to hype the iPhone up even more….unfortunately for them…
I just tried to call a business this morning to rent a bicycle for this weekend since mine got stolen while I was in school. When I called they were obviously closed since it was 7:30am and no one picked up the phone. However, the amazing thing was that they didnt even have an answering…
After a few months of serious planning, development, and testing, we released the latest version of Spaces last night. What a joy to write the blog entry and be able to list off more than 10 great features that our users have requested for a long time. Two examples that you can test out immediately: …
Hey everyone, I know that there are a bunch of lurkers reading my Windows Live Space. By lurker, I mean reading it but not leaving a comment and saying hello. For those of you that dont want to have to remember to come to my website to read my latest post (I know…
While I was travelling the other week, I read a great article in Wired called: "Be More Than You Can Be". It is an article about the trypes of training that some of our soldiers go through and the technology that they use to increase performance. Below is the first two paragraphs which highlight one of the techniques…