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SBTUG: This Wed with Social Networks, and Silverlight. Plus a great Prize

Another (!) big night this Wed 28 November 2007 with Laurel Papworth and Michael Kordahi presenting. Both sessions will focus on the business value of their respective topics – eg is social networking of use to businesses? Is Silverlight really of interest to companies at this stage? The answer to both is Yes. Come along and find out why. A bit about the speakers: Laurel is a Social Media...

CLARITY: Microsoft is a marketing company

Not wanting to be too much of 'well duh' post, but I thought it was worth reminding ourselves that in software we need to be focusing extensively on marketing and sales. It all too easy to get caught up in the development, to the detriment of the marketing. I've (finally) finished 'Partnering with Microsoft' by Ted Dinsmore and Edward O'Connor. It's a little dry, and...

CLARITY: SaaS versus S+S

If, like me, you'd just assumed that Software + Services (S+S) was Microsoft's way of trying to take over and re-brand an existing concept – namely Software as a Service (SaaS) – then the following diagram is a helpful corrective. It's taken from page 18 of Issue 13 of the Architecture Journal (download here), and is a nice overview of how S+S and SaaS relate to each other...

Benefits of registering Microsoft Express versions

I didn't realise there was a whole bunch of free stuff that you got when registering an Express product. Telerik, DevComponents, etc. Almost makes me want to ditch the full version :-)
(Thanks to Dan Fernandez for pointing this out at point 10).
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Wiki-hacking

A great post by Rand (from SEOmoz) on the how Wikipedia is manipulated (and how it is protected). Interesting reading.
Note: Wiki-hacking is his term.
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Windows GMail

From Google Blogoscoped comes this gem on what GMail would look like if Microsoft had designed it. It's too close to reality to be funny… :-)
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Amazon Kindle

Amazon has announced their new electronic reader, named Kindle.
What can I say? I want one.
Newsweek talks about it, as does Guy Kawasaki.
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