trying out the new Xbox Zune video-marketplace, which is only available within the Xbox Live Update Preview-program for now. there are only few select movies available for the preview, even fewer in 1080p HD & 5.1 audio (Matrix Revolutions, Watchmen). HD-movies come both as on-demand streaming & download for 490 microsoft points or EUR 5,70 [...]
just a few screenshots from the pending Xbox LIVE Update, which will include access to Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm & Zune marketplace. I couldn’t find Last.fm in the preview, but Facebook & Twitter really works well… if you want to be considered for upcoming Xbox preview-programs (this one seems to be closed down), sign up here!
so I got an invitation to Microsoft Mesh last night (it pays to stay up late and follow @stevegillmor). in some way Mesh is Microsoft’s answer to offline webapps (think Google Gears, AIR), weaving the fabric that is supposed to connect multiple devices, and applications. in its current rendition (don’t forget, this is labeled ‘Tech [...]
when will Microsoft release a free, ad-supported online version of their office-suite? will it be called Office Live? and will it happen before Google’s lightweight office-apps finally include a featureset that will be a sufficient replacement for mainstream-users? a – though quickly altered – blog-post from within Microsoft leads to new speculation at TechCrunch.
Freebase – [...]
fowa2007, day #2 – wifi is still sluggish & expensive.
nothing too breathtaking from Microsoft (Chris Wilson) and Adobe (Mark Anders), though the Flex-demo was kinda intriguing – flash is finally making sense for developers. the CEO (?) of Scrybe gave a short performance-comparison of actionscript 2 vs. 3, which also seemed kinda impressing. He [...]
if you’re bored of the ever same, sterile user-interfaces of common search engines, you might wanna try out Ms. Dewey, a Microsoft-owned experimental search-frontend to Windows Live Search. being distracted by hi-quality flash-video of librarian Ms. Dewey (played by Janina Gavankar, who – according to Valleywag – has been featuring soft-porn movies in her past [...]
in what can be described as a precautious concession to the music industry, Microsoft decided to cripple the most interesting feature that might have put their recently released Zune media-player atop of Apples predominant iPod series: the ability to share tracks with other Zune-users over WiFi is restricted to DRMed songs purchased/rented from zune.net. transmitted [...]
years after the big search-players agreed on nofollow-directives and robots.txt-controlled exclusions, Danny Sullivan reports that Microsoft & Yahoo have announced to join Google’s sitemap-effort, an XML-protocol allowing webmasters to optimize the crawling of dynamic web-content:
Overall, I’m thrilled. It took nearly a decade for the search engines to go from unifying around standards for blocking [...]
Photosynth – a Microsoft Labs technology prototype first seen in july – has been released into public preview on the last day of this years web 2.0 summit. the active-x-based software analyzes & arranges numerous pictures of one location in a 3D-space, making pictures browseable in a unique and gorgeous way. the preview is limited [...]
with the current hailstorm of news on upcoming web-office initiatives by Google and others, one might easily be tempted to forget about what that particular company in Redmond is going to do about all that. tonight, Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch (down-to-earth) and Steve Gillmor (way-beyond) both give us an appropriate reality-check about what to expect [...]
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