Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft’s mystery insider

Just game across this article, it’s a very interesting read even if it doesn’t tell us the man behind Minimsft (Mini-Microsoft) The voice on the line, which had been easy and confident with a staccato laugh, suddenly lowers with concern. It’s because I mention his first name. “Please don’t put that in the paper, Danny,” the voice says. “I don’t

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Microsoft in talks to buy EBay and merge it with MSN

According to the New York Post, Microsoft has been in discussions for several weeks about a possible acquisition of the online auctioneer eBay so they can merge it with its MSN Portal. If this MSN/EBay acquisition was to go ahead it would surely give both MSN and EBay a great advantage over Google, but as the New York Post pointed,

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Announcing Internet Explorer 7+

With the release of Windows Vista Beta 2, The IE Team has now announced that they will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista “Internet Explorer 7+”. While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code base, there are some important differences in IE7+, most significantly the addition of Windows Vista-only features like Protected Mode, Parental Controls,

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The MSN Conspiracy game

I’m guesing most of you remember the Msn game titled “Can you solve the Kitty Caper mystery?” which was a detective game were you could win prizes by solving the mystery of the Kitty Caper, well if you liked that one and would like to have the chance to win some prizes, then you might just like to try The MSN Conspiracy

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Birthday Calculator gives you interesting facts!

Check out this Birthday Calculator, it certainly does give you some interesting facts about your birthday, not all useful though. 😉 Here’s some information I got when I entered my birth date, if you’re brave enough why don’t you post yours here as well in the comments. You entered: 6/11/1985 Your date of conception was on or about 18 September 1984

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iBloks Beta Now available

In connection with the Windows Vista Beta 2 release, the free yet great iBloks Mix.Share.Play beta software is ready for you to download and start enjoying with your friends. What’s an iBlok? An iBlok is a new and simple way to personalize, share and play with digital photos, music, videos and games in a 3D environment. This makes your content

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Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

Just the other day I finished reading “Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the way Businesses Talk with Customers” by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. And I would like to compliment them both for writing such a great book. I haven’t been properly blogging for very long now and this blog will only be a year old on the 11th of

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MSN Spaces Now Largest Blogging Service Worldwide

According to data released by comScore Networks, MSN Spaces is the most widely used blogging service worldwide with more than 100 million unique users.  The total number of unique users of MSN Spaces has more than doubled from April of 2005 to April of 2006 from 41.65 to 101 million. comScore figures show that during April 2006, nearly one in

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World66: the travel guide YOU write

World66 is an open content travel guide, where people from all over the planet can write about the places they love, the hotels they stayed in and the restaurants that have eaten. And it’s not just this you can do, World66 also has some fancy tools that they have provided which they hope will make world66 the best travel guide on the planet.