This week I’m having a great time in Seattle meeting various Microsoft colleagues including Major Nelson (aka Larry Hryb) from Xbox fame and Steve Clayton who reports back on all things ‘New’ from Microsoft. Should be fun.
Meanwhile I’ve just discovered Bing Twitter Maps, so you can keep track of all my tweets (amongst other folk) below. This tool could really add to storytelling online so have a gander yourself.
More updates soon.
It looks like the launch of Kinect last year is sparking a new way of making music videos. It’ll be an interesting trend to follow as we’ve already seen how film makers are using the iPhone to create great lo-fi vids. I’m now Echo Lake’s official number one fan so good luck to them.
*And another one has already sprung up here – this time from Moullinex. Thanks to Steve Clayton for pointing this one out.
Moullinex – Catalina from Moullinex on Vimeo.
This week I’ve been testing out the new Windows Phone 7 HTV 7 Mozart handset – absolutely fantastic. It even makes an appearance with my ugly mug all over it when we filmed the launch event last week. Enjoy!
Here’s a great overview of MSN from Geoff Sutton, General Manager of MSN International Media and Scott Moore, Executive Producer MSN US.
I recently took the decision to transfer a load of posts from my Windows Live Spaces account to this blog and enjoyed the great pleasure of banging my head against a wall for at least two evenings trying to figure out how to do it. Now I have the answer.
Download Windows Live Writer
Set up your account details for your old/new blogs
Download the posts to your machine
Upload the posts to your new blog.
You might have to tweak the posts afterwards according to your blog environment but I found the process really slick and pretty easy to use. A bulk action process would make this even better as you can only import/export posts one at a time.
Good luck!
Here’s a neat trick. I’ve been trying to get my head around trying to seed out content to all my social network groups in the fastest and easiest way possible and I think I’ve cracked it. Rather than populating the top of my browser with loads of Digg or Twitter icons, I’m using IE 8′s new web accelerator function combined with the Shareaholic service. The rest is easy. Simply:
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If you click on the Shareaholic icon you will be taken to a page of options like this:
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Simply select the service you want, input your username and password for each account (you’ll only need to do this once) and BINGO your content will be ready to publish on that network.
As long as you have all your social network account details at hand, it’s pretty easy to set this all up. With the combined power of Accelerator and Shareaholic I would say that what would have normally taken me an hour, now takes me about 15 minutes. Brilliant stuff.
All I need to do now is read the new Trust Agents book so I can figure out how to do all of this without spamming anyone! More on that later.
Good luck.
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Just came back from our annual conference, narrowly avoiding having to go onstage to sing to a Lips track. Some really great speeches, the content of which you’ll probably read into tomorrow’s press as Steve Ballmer attended and ‘rocked’ the whole show. Really inspiring stuff and all delivered in the fantastic surroundings of Wembley Stadium – hence the image featured in today’s bing homepage. On me head son.
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Just watched the latest Microsoft tag video over at Steve Clayton’s blog. This type of technology is what every retailer will be after once they get their head round it. Not sure if teleportation comes as standard but I can find out for anyone out there who might be interested.
Microsoft Tag (MTag) Teen Spot – Canon 5D Mark II from Marty Martin. themartymartin.com on Vimeo.
More from Le Book here. Would be pretty cool to get this on MSN UK homepage I think:
English LeBook Tutorial from LE BOOK on Vimeo.
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