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  • Microsoft Vista finished

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    With the two simple words “It’s time“, posted on the Windows Vista blog, Jim Allchin announced to the world yesterday that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing. Via Rob (well done Rob, you beat Scoble to the post by 48 minutes!). Vista is Microsoft’s new operating system, replacing Windows XP The official Microsoft press…

  • 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…

  • Oh no! Scoble Show launched

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    Robert Scoble’s video show was launched this morning. The delay in the launch was due to the PodTech.net site’s re-design apparantly. There are some fascinating interviews there. One of the videos is of a photo walk with Thomas Hawk. Thomas is a photographer in San Francisco and works with photo sharing site Zooomr. I did…

  • Geo tagging blog posts

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    Via Scoble comes a simple way to Geo tag your blog posts Now, if only there were a simple WordPress plug-in to do same! geo:tool=blockrocker.com geotagged geo:lat=51.8541774 geo:lon=-8.3266068

  • Shel Israel podcast

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    The Shel Israel interview went ahead last night, as planned. Shel was great, full of warm humour, interesting insights and relevant anecdotes. below are the questions I asked him and the times in the podcast they were asked: Shel, what is it about Ireland that appeals to you? – 1:15 You guys wrote Naked Conversations…

  • Developments in search

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    Two search announcements overnight: Chris Pirillo announces a new search engine – Gada.be and Yahoo! builds blog search into its News Search service The Yahoo! blog search engine is disappointing – from a user interface point of view – the blog search results are hidden away in a sidebar of the main results on the…

  • Google to release Google Office?

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    Susan Kuchinskas of internetnews.com, eWeek, Scoble and a bunch of others are all reporting that a Google-Sun alliance is set to announce a Google version of Microsoft’s Office suite of applications. Sun bring their much vaunted StarOffice codebase to this partnership while Google bring their experience of running massively trafficked web apps. Google Office is…