Microsoft on Monday briefly posted pricing for Windows Vista on its Canadian Web site, giving an eye into what the company will charge for the new operating system. The posting indicated that the Home Basic edition of Windows Vista will be priced the same as Windows XP Home, at $233 ($259 Canadian). The Home Premium version, which includes support for
Videobloggers Jay Dedman and Ryan Hodson have visited Behind the Scenes at Technorati with a video camera and have got a nice little report from the people who build that blog search engine. Via: Robert Scoble
Ever heard of Sonific’s SongSpots? Are you on the Sonific’s SongSpots Limited Private Beta? What do you think of Sonific’s SongSpots Service? What’s this, you havent heard of Sonific’s SongSpots Service yet, well let me explain, or better yet lets have Sonific the company explain to you first about their selves as a company: Sonific was founded in July 2005,
So according to the Askimet Blog, Askimet the wordpress spam stopper was down, guess that explains why I was receiving lots of spam comments on my blog, glad the problems fixed now though. The stats code introduced yesterday had a bug which only triggered about 24 hours after it had launched. It kicked in for different blogs at different times,
Last month Michael Arrington got together with a number of startup CEOs and executives to video a discussion about Web 2.0. Participating in the discussion were Aaron Cohen (Bolt), Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster), Keith Teare (edgeio), Steven Marder (Eurekster), Joe Kraus (JotSpot), Jeremy Verba (Piczo), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), Chris Alden (Rojo), Gautam Godhwani (Simply Hired), Jonathan Abrams (Socializr), David
Just noticed that the Windows Marketplace site has now updated it’s site design to a new Windows Vista Look and feel, is this the new look and feel already?, or are they just giving us a sneak preview while they test the new site live? Update: Site Design rolled back after less than 1 hour! Update 2: Try the Microsoft employees
Check out this video of a tour of a massive Equinix Data Warehouse for the Web. Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive. Via: Digg
So you’ve probably already heard by now (maybe not) about how the name Windows Live Agora is the codename for the replacement of Windows Marketplace, unoriginally expected to be Windows Live Marketplace. But had you heard/noticed how the current Windows Marketplace site features a countdown to the new version, indicating that the launch will be on Monday the 28th of August at 7pm GMT (8pm BST).
According to the new Windows Live WiFi team Blog, Windows Live Hotspot Locator is now live and can be found at: http://hotspot.live.com With 106,978 free and paid WiFi hotspots in 99 countries, our Hotspot Locator makes it easy to locate wireless Internet access around the globe. Use the View on Map feature to see your search results on a map
Just got word today that a Windows Live Essentials Beta is on the way, but what is Windows Live Essentials, well it’s an upcoming product which we can consider to be the Windows Live equivalent of the Google Pack, here’s a better description: Windows Live is a new wave of online services-including e-mail, instant messaging, and security- designed to work together