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  • Information Cards now working on Live.com (sort of!)

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    Interesting, I noticed today that you can now log into Windows Live sites (and all sites which accept Live ID credentials ) using an Information Card. This is in Beta currently. This could be a major step forward in federated identity. However, it only works on IE7 with .NET Framework 3.0 for now – hopefully…

  • Richard MacManus' predictions for 2007

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    Richard MacManus, over on Read/WriteWeb has an extremely comprehensive must read post on his forecast for what will be hot in 2007. His predictions for 2007: RSS will go mainstream Structured data will be a big trend Widgets will continue rising in 2007 Web Office will continue to ramp up The consumerization of the enterprise…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • Internet Explorer 7 has been released

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    Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been released according to Dean Hachamovitch on the the IE7 blog. It is now available for download here. IE7 will be rolled out via a critical Windows update in the coming weeks which, as I have mentioned previously, will become a support nightmare. For this version it would make a…

  • Are Microsoft at the Web 2.0 races?

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    I have been asked to give a presentation, on Microsoft’s relevance in the Web 2.0 arena. What do people think, are Microsoft a player in this sphere? They have Office Live, Windows Live Mail, MSN Spaces and they are a big supporter of RSS – it will be baked into the next versions of Internet…

  • Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 to be abandoned?

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    Microsoft has announced today that Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is available for download. In the Microsoft announcement, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer development at Microsoft, said the timeline for further releases is: Windows Vista Beta 2, and then Beta 3 of IE7, release candidates, and then a final release before end of…

  • RSS usability problems re-discovered!

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    Robert Scoble has written a post bemoaning the lack of standards in using RSS feeds and the consequent confusion which this causes : Some sites use RSS icons. Most that I visit use the orange XML icon. But other sites don’t have any icon and instead use words like “subscribeâ€? or “feedâ€? or “web feed.â€?…