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“We’d therefore like to clear a few misunderstandings that emerged in yesterday’s reactions to our explanation of what transpired last week.”
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“Intel Corporation., Texas Instruments Inc., AudioCodes Ltd., Dialogic Corp., LG-Nortel Co. Ltd. and Polycom Inc. will license Microsoft’s voice codec software, RT Audio Codec, which has been shown to deliver superior sound quality, according to Psytech
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links for 2007-08-22
August 22, 2007
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New from Microsoft: Tafiti
August 21, 2007
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Today Microsoft launched Tafiti, a new demo/experiment showing in a cool way what you can do combining Live Search with Silverlight. I hear you thinking: not another search, or Microsoft, huh!, … but I think you should take a look at it.
Tafiti, which means ‘do research’ in Swahili apparently, allows you to search the web like any other engine when it comes to the results themselves. But the way these results get presented and the way you can drag into ‘shelves’ where you can collect them is quite interesting.
I did a search on ‘silverlight’ and the view on top is where you see the news results of it, nicely presented in ‘newspaper’ style. In the carrousel on the left you can choose other verticals (web, images, …) and on the right you have the ‘shelves’ I mentioned earlier with some results stored on the first ‘shelve’. You can actually open up the results on a ‘shelve’ which shows all of them in one view and which has a blog it & email it buttons so you can send them through right away.
I’m going to play around with this a bit more myself, but make sure you do as well. I think it’s an interesting exercise. You can see a video of Tafiti in action at On10.
Technorati Tags: tafiti, microsoft, silverlight, live search, windows live, api, demo, experiment, web, on10, search, beta
Pecha Kucha Night Brussels
August 21, 2007
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I got my first Pecha Kucha invite in June last year, when Wunderman organized one in Cannes at the Advertising Festival. It coincided with the Cyber Lions unfortunately and I made the choice to go see those as we (MSN) were the main sponsor. As I said in my post about it back then, that might have been the wrong choice.
Last week I received an email saying that Alok Nandi (Architempo) is setting up the Pecha Kucha Nights in Brussels, starting with the first event on November 20th so that’s some very good news and you can be sure I’ll be present. If you don’t know what a Pecha Kucha is, here’s some background. In short, think presentation of 20 slides, at 20 seconds per slide. No control.
Too bad that Alok decided to take the same WordPress template as me though :)
Technorati Tags: pecha kucha, brussels, event, architempo, cannes, cyber lions, festival, presentation
Brussels Girl Geek Dinner
August 21, 2007
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When two of your favorite girl geeks set something up, what do you do? You talk about it of course, like if they needed more visibility :) A couple of months ago Hugh introduced me via email to Sarah Blow, the founder of the (London) Girl Geek Dinners. Unfortunately we haven’t met yet but had a few chats over IM and I’m pretty sure we’ll get together for drinks or some one of the following occasions I’m in London.
This way I knew for a while hat the Girl Geek Dinners were coming to Belgium as well, but last week that idea really came to live with the launch of the Brussels Girl Geek Dinner blog (design by Ine). So for all you Belgian girl geeks out there – subscribe to the blog while I’ll find a way to dress up for the occasion so I can attend that dinner as well ;)
Blogger Social ’08
August 21, 2007
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When I wrote my ‘Global marketing community‘ post a couple of months ago I wrote about the growing number of initiatives that we see happening today in the marketing blogger community and that are all pretty exciting. At the bottom of that post I made this comment:
I’m looking forward to more of this and wouldn’t it be fantastic if eventually we find a time and a place we could all meet up face to face and have a sort of Marketing Mashup? Sounds good to me ;)
I had no idea back then that CK and Drew were already cooking something of that kind and this week the news on what, where and when is finally out: Blogger Social ’08. From April 4th to April 6th next year we get a very good reason to fly out to NY and get together. Not for a marketing event, nor a conference but more for a meeting of minds, a social gathering. As I said before… sounds good to me :)
Interested? Then do 2 things: (1) go visit the Blogger Social blog and subscribe so you don’t miss out on any news and (2) register!
Big thank you to CK, Drew McLellan, Cam Beck, Mike Sansone, Matt Dickman and Luc Debaisieux for setting it all up. Like I needed another reason to go back to NY ;)
Bebo and Windows Live link up
August 21, 2007
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Tonight Microsoft (who I work for) made an exciting announcement in the social networking space. Bebo is going to integrate Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Contacts into it’s service and is the first social network that is doing so (with hopefully more to follow). Bebo which is present in the UK (biggest social network there) and in the US will allow it’s 36 million users to enter their Live Messenger account in their profile page. This way you can see a user’s presence and start and instant conversation with or without having a LiveID yourself (‘IM me’ function). With 280 million active Live Messenger users there’s probably going to be a big overlap, especially in the UK so I’m curious to see how many Bebo users will start using this.
Technorati Tags: bebo, microsoft, windows live, messenger, liveid, partnership, uk, us, integration, announcement, pr
links for 2007-08-21
August 21, 2007
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I hadn’t realised that US telcos itemised every text message on their bills. Indeed, I don’t know if it’s just a new development with the IPhone or specific to AT&T as reported here but in a world where people send tens if not hundreds of texts a day and
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First of all: I love this website. It’s a Temptation Island spoof on the political crisis our Belgian government is facing. You can create your own coalition negotiations in true Temptation Island style, featuring our top politicians.
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In preparation for our first beta in the coming months, we now have a fancy online form that you can fill out to request access to the Gatineau beta program.
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We are delighted to make Content Ads Beta available to all U.S. customers! On Wednesday, August 29, we will upgrade adCenter to include Microsoft Content Ads.
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links for 2007-08-20
August 20, 2007
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List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations
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Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, announced today on the Technorati blog that he’s stepping down from his post.
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There are tons of sites that let you save your favorite videos from the likes of YouTube and Google Video, but then you have a Flash video you can’t do much with. You can download converters that will let you transcode, but then you have to hope you can
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fav.or.it is a new type of RSS Reader currently in private beta, which aims to solve the long-standing issue of feed content being separated from commenting.
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IMified is an instant messenger buddy that works across all major IM networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications, as well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo’s. Imified helps you get things done faster.
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For a better presentation
August 19, 2007
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Powerpoint, Keynote, … as I said before I don’t think of these at the reason for a good or bad presentation. This was also the reason why I didn’t see the purpose of Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest. This week I found something that is valuable information for creating better presentations.
“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” – Jerry Seinfeld
Brett Tabke at the PubCon conference blog posts a long list of tips on giving better presentations and it’s quite a long but good list. How to start the presentation, how to work around one theme, how to be prepared, … definitely something you should check out. Whether you think about internal 5 people presentations, a presentation for your board or clients, a conference presentation, … these are all good tips.
At the last line they say everyone should take all speaking opportunities they can and that’s exactly what I do. Here’s my next ‘gig’ by the way: The Social Media Forum for Communicators Europe. Don’t judge me too hard ok ;)
Technorati Tags: presentation, powerpoint, keynote, tips, hints, pubcon, presenter
Talking ’bout the conversation
August 16, 2007
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If for anyone it still wouldn’t be clear that we’ve entered the Age of Conversation, then I suggest you take a look at these logos below. I guess it’s fair to say that looking at these logo’s we have to acknowledge the conversation is part of this generation. Or is it just a sign up the web2.0 bubble economy?
[Via Brand Autopsy]
- Last day at Microsoft
- Not enough drama?
- Internet to overtake TV in June 2010
- Where is agency 2.0?
- Moving on…
- Blue Monster in Paris
- Is ‘good enough’ the new black?
- You get a long way with common sense
- What’s on an advertiser’s mind?
- What I got out of Twitter so far
- The #ASS of Kris Hoet
- Want something new? Ask a talent without experience.
- Is technology slowing us down?
- Social Media Forum: Social Currency
- Creativity World Forum 2011: Making ideas happen
- Stratégies Gagnantes: Agile Planning
- Who are you?
- Stepping out of the App economy
- Watch out Instagram?
- Another week, another tablet
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