Archive for January, 2006

Windows Live Session UK 1

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Some quick thoughts on the Windows Live Session I attended in London last Thursday. I haven’t been keeping up that much with Live since the announcement, but found the presentation by Phil Holden, director Windows Live, informative and interesting. (Hey, I need to get some beta invites to the Live services. Mail me!)
First, the web […]

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Good framework posts

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

Burnham’s Beat: The Walled Garden “Hit List”. The threat from search engines to web services with “walled garden” data can be analysed by looking at 1) Content Availability, 2) Index Affinity and 3) Process Simplicity, according to Bill Burnham. Really, really good post. Appropriate framework to use when trying to understand why traditional media […]

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Games industry reached all time high U.S. sales in 2005

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

MSNBC: “Overall, sales of console and portable hardware, software and accessories reached $10.5bn, 6 per cent higher than the $9.9bn generated in 2004 and beating the record of $10.3bn achieved in 2002.”
Games are probably the form of entertainment most suitable for the connected and interactive world we are living in. It is especially notable to […]

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