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Microsoft’s Online Services presentation to @NEBytes

August 25, 2010

Introduction As per my recent post about Onyx & Cloud computing, I’m interested in business opportunities in the Cloud space, rather than the more technical stuff. I guess I’m interested from the business-technical angle. I’ve recently been investigating what Microsoft is up to, and below is my presentation to the NE Bytes massive on the [...]

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Cloud Computing – YouTube videos

September 4, 2009

Context I’m one of many who sees Cloud Computing as a major industry trend, which could be very disruptive [or then again it could all be hype ;-D]. This is the first of three planned posts to bring together some useful introductory material around Cloud – designed to give a balanced view, and cover the [...]

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Microsoft’s push into Web 2.0 via SharePoint

July 30, 2009

Ok, so I should admit that I have previous with Microsoft and SharePoint. An NT MCSE of 1999, I have been involved in a number of bids and delivery projects (e.g. here and here) involving SharePoint. The latest version, ‘Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007’ has a number of Social Media tools, but my experience has [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #8: ‘Round Up’ & Closing Comments

June 24, 2009

‘Round Up’ – Ian Livingstone Closing Comments – Carri Cunliffe GameHorizon #8: ‘Round Up’ & Closing Comments Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,metaverse,north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.

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GameHorizon live-blog #6: ‘Future of Digital Distribution’; ‘Future Technologies’; ‘PlayStation Home’

June 24, 2009

‘Separating Fact from Fiction: the Future of Digital Distribution’ Roger Walkden, CEO, AWOMO ‘Future Technologies’ Steve Clayton, Microsoft ‘Development Opportunities in PlayStation Home’ Peter Edward, Director, PlayStation Home Platform Group UPDATE – I’m publishing the first bit of this session as a bulleted list, as the CIL service was offline to begin with… ‘Separating Fact [...]

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Manifesto: UK Public Sector data should be set free

May 27, 2009

[UPDATE Jan 2010: Check out ‘Public Launch’ a post about the launch of data.gov.uk. Data sets & mashups ahoy – w00t!] This post is a synthesis of various ideas which have come together now that Data.gov is live. In turn, I would like to see data held by UK Public Sector organisations be freed up [...]

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Session Three: (Thinking Digital) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel The Sancho Plan Johnny Chung Lee, Microsoft Adrian Hon, Six to Start Dan Lyons, Newsweek Magazine Live blog Session Three: (Thinking Digital)

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Session Two: (Disturbing the Universe) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services Alex Hunter, Virgin Group Tara Shears, Large Hadron Collider & Liverpool University Curtis Wong, Microsoft Live blog Session Two: (Disturbing the Universe)

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Cloud Camp North East

March 25, 2009

A post re a discussion of Cloud Computing at which I presented earlier this week. I have typed up my notes from the Q&A session fyi. On Tuesday night I spent the evening in the Company of some Cloud Computing luminaries, at Cloud Camp North East England. There were presentations from FlexiScale, RightScale, CloudSoft, Sun [...]

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How Business and Enterprise North East plans to share information

December 15, 2008

I recently attended a Bridge Club event, where Caroline Theobald had one of her ‘conversations’ with Alastair MacColl, boss of Business & Enterprise North East Ltd (I’m going to foreshorten them to BE-NE here). BE-NE are best known for running Business Link in the North East of England, but have other strings to their corporate [...]

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