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Full story: Windows Live Writer from Microsoft
Another new entrant into the blog editing software market comes from Microsoft with their beta launch of Windows Live Writer. I’m trying it out in writing this post and so far so good. A very polished program for a first beta [but see my post-publish edit note at the end]. Although this free editor for Windows is clearly aimed at enabling you to write and post entries to a Windows Live Spaces blog, Microsoft says it will work with any…
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Full story: Share your memories at the BBC
An intriguing social experiment from the BBC – The Time When: […] The site is a place to record and share memories of the important days in your life. It also gives information about events which have taken place on any day since 1st January 1900, and on many dates before that. Using The Time When, you can add your memories of events that happened on any day, read other people’s memories, search for memories by date and see what…
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Full story: A PC nostalgia trip
Reading David Tebbutt’s 1981 review of the first IBM PC is quite a trip down memory lane. More so for David, I expect, as he was at the launch on 12 August 1981. Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of that launch, an event that has had a profound impact on how we live, let alone do business, as plenty of people have said. Even my wife blogged it (in Spanish). It brings back memories for me of the first ‘real’…
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Full story: TypePad Mobile first look
If you have a TypePad blog and a cameraphone, moblogging just got a lot easier with Six Apart’s launch of TypePad Mobile. This free program enables you to post photos from your phone to your blog via high-speed data connection (if your phone or service plan supports that) rather than by slower MMS or email. There are versions for smartphones that run the Palm operating system, Windows Mobile 5 and Symbian Series 60. I’ve installed it on my Nokia N70,…
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Full story: Pay attention to Gartner’s hype cycle
IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2006 hype cycle for emerging technologies this week – their predictions on what they think will be hot technologies in the near future, and what won’t be. These predictions form part of the hype cycles Gartner uses to characterize the over-enthusiasm or “hype” and subsequent disappointment that typically happens with the introduction of new technologies. Hype cycles also show how and when technologies move beyond the hype, offer practical benefits and so become widely…
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