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I suspect this video has done the rounds inside Microsoft (it's a year old, but I haven't seen it before). Background: this is the same conf call service Microsoft uses. In my five years I spent way too much listening to the very same track. Ah, memories. Thanks to Sean Alexander for the link.

Mike - there were a number of Flickr users who felt the same way when Yahoo! acquired Flickr. What Yahoo! did very well is to leave Flickr alone allowing the Flickr team to continue their innovation / great service. I speak as Flickr user / customer myself pre- and post- the Yahoo! acquisition and I didn't feel any negative effects throughout that ...

Holy testacular Friday. Microsoft has announced in an official press release its proposal to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, offering $31 a share - a 62% premium over the current trading price. Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft: ''Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively ...

Hi Josh - thanks for stopping by. a couple of things perhaps: 1. Bug - In the case of pulling down the del.icio.us links there seems to be some inconsistency in the way it pulls down the notes - sometimes is has the first couple of words, sometimes all the words. No discernable pattern here I can see. 2. Feature - as a config setting, allow user ...

Windows Live Writer is arguably one of the coolest apps that Microsoft has...

Joshua Porter is a usability consultant, web designer, researcher and blogger specializing in the art of social design for the web whose experience includes...

For those of you who listen to podcasts and are interested in social design, here’s an option: Alex Barnett and Ted Haeger (the Bungee Connect folks) recently interviewed me...

Last week I had the chance to some spend time with Joshua Porter (of Bokardo.com) to discuss his thoughts on "Social Design" for the web. We recorded the conversation and it's up now up as a podcast. Josh has a new book coming out soon, "Designing Social Applications (Voices That Matter)": "How do you create and ...

Yup, I've definitely been missing my feedreader (and now FeedDemon is free I really have no excuses to catch up). So much good stuff out there, so little time! Here's a sample of the good stuff I've been running into... MVC, I know what you're thinking... Haacked shares his MVC joke - ''So A Model, A View, and a Controller Walk Into a ...

2008 may see many trends in software as a service platforms, at least...