Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

In London this October 2007 – Want to meetup?

Hey everyone I’m staying in London from the 2nd to the 4th of October, so if anyone wants to meet up for a drink/chat feel free to let me know! 😀 On the 2nd I’m not doing much at all (thought the extra day in London would be nice) though I’m most possibly attending mashup* demo in the evening and

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mashup* Demo – 2nd of October 2007

mashup* Demo is an event which has been put together to provide a simple and effective way for startups, growing businesses, enterprises and corporates to present themsevels to an audience of professionals who would include:- investors, media journalists and bloggers, potential partners and industry influencers. mashup* Demo has been created because we’ve been asked by many startups and growing businesses

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Real Live Moms from Windows Live

Microsoft’s Windows Live division has recently launched a website called Real Live Moms from Windows Live which allows all thoses caring moms/mums/mothers out there to create a personalized Windows Live Space from which they can network with other mums. Here’s a small list of stuff Real Live Moms from Windows Live can let moms/mums/mothers do: Create Windows Live Spaces Blogs Create scrapebook

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LiveStation and Silverlight showcase at IBC2007

IBC 2007 sees the start of the first large‑scale technical trial of the LiveStation platform, designed to distribute broadcast channels over the Internet to a freely downloadable player, based on a Microsoft Silverlight user experience. LiveStation is a revolutionary new global network that will enable broadcasters to deliver live audio and video to a potential audience of hundreds of millions

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Windows Live Translator Beta Now Live!

Following my recent post about Microsoft registering various Windows Live Translator Domain names and the even recent apperance of a Windows Live Translator Feedback page. Windows Live Translator Beta is now live at the following urls’s: http://translator.live.com http://translate.live.com http://windowslivetranslator.com I’ve been checking it out and from what I see so far it’s pretty good. I for one really like the look

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Weather Central implements Microsoft Virtual Earth

Weather Central a provider of state-of-the-art broadcast weather solutions, has today announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft. The alliance integrates worldwide aerial, satellite imagery and mapping technology provided by Microsoft Virtual Earth into Weather Central’s 3D interactive software applications on-air. “We are constantly investing, updating data and improving our offering to the consumer, which makes Microsoft Virtual Earth one of the

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Windows Live Suite Installer Released

Following my earlier post today about the Windows Live Suite. I can now tell you that The Windows Live Suite Installer has now been released for Download! 😀 You can grab it at: http://get.live.com/wl/all Windows Live Hotmail The next generation of Web-based e-mail Drag-and-drop organization Security features to help kill spam and viruses A preview pane to see messages from

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Windows Live Suite to be released very soon!

This morning the Windows Live Wire Blog published an entry from Chris Jones, Vice President of the Windows Live Team at Microsoft, announcing that starting today we woud all be able to test out the new Windows Live Suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all. In this announcement Chris Jones mentions the following to be included in the Windows Live Suite Download: Windows

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Sorry Richard but Akismet wins!

Got the following comment today: Anikrichard | anlikivanna.80@mail.ru | wwwwww.com | IP: 72.9.235.218 hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments , I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume

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Weshow brings the worlds best online videos to your blog and social networking sites

WeShow, the human-powered guide to the world’s online videos, is making it easier for Web users to enjoy an ever-changing collection of high-quality videos tailored to viewers’ specific interests with new products. Officially launching last month for consumers, WeShow onDesktop is a mini-application that resides on the user’s desktop and can be launched on demand—without opening a Web browser—to enjoy the