J.D. Lewin

Duncan and I headed over to Seattle to chat with George Hageman, a local Seattle teenager who reaches more than 8,000 subscribers with his podcast on military history. Find out why he decided to do a podcast, why he chose this particular topic, and just how little equipment he needed to get…

Picture this: It's a sunny Friday a little after lunch, and you're dreading the hike back to your desk and the piles of work that scared you towards the solice of your burrito in the first place. Typically this is the most depressing moment in a day at Microsoft. Once in a while though there's…

Every so often we highlight the tools that have passed our seven day rule (thanks Jeff for turning the phrase). These are things that quickly become indispensible in our work and play online. Whether they be applications, services, or any collection of code that grows on us, if we’re still using it…

You're at the Where 2.0 conference! A gathering to discuss maps, global positioning, mobile devices, and anything else that relates to your location on the planet. We spoke with a handful of the presenters at Where 2.0, rode someone else's electric scooter, and wrapped up the evening with some…

The beta version of Windows Live Writer dropped this past Friday, and today we bring you a walkthrough with the man in charge, J.J. Alaire. This latest Microsoft tool for bloggers has lit a fire over at Techmeme, and we're certainly very excited to start using it at 10.Live Writer is being built to…

We've spent our share of time on social network sites over the years. Friendster, Orkut, Myspace, all of which essentially brought us the same level of entertainment; toying around with a gagel of geeks in a race to get every member of the Spice Girls on our friends list. Thankfully someone has…

One of the benefits of working on a small team is the low frequency of conference calls. Being on a 'call' as they're not-so-affectionately known typically means speaking once every fifteen minutes while sifting through email or catching up on that hilarious web comic.The Office RoundTable…

Picking up where yesterday's conversation left off, we have more Office RoundTable goodness. Ross fires up one of the prototype cameras and gives us more detail on how the massive camera resolution, combined with the RoundTable's intelligent software, take the remote conference experience to the…

Not many people enjoy their commute. It's probably the least enjoyable part of the daily experience, plus these days it's the least environmentally-friendly thing most of us do. Well the cats at King County Metro have taken a big step toward getting us out of our cars.Two of the more popular bus…

About a week after we aired our first twopieces about Office RoundTable, the phone rang here at the 10 HQ. Our new best friend Rajiv Kapoor from the Microsoft Unified Communications group called out of the clear blue to say he'd love to show off the finished RoundTable alongside LiveMeeting 2007.…