In a roundabout way, you can thank Jeff Sandquist for a naked Pam Beasley on the cover of Wired Magazine. After a long discussion about corporate transparency at the Wired offices, they devoted an issue to it including an article on Channel 9 (and mention of Channel 10). So in the rush that was…

How often have you browsed through the pictures in your operating system only to wonder where they came from? Wonder no more, Hamad Darwish was just one man and his camera until he got a fateful Flickr message asking if he would like to make a little money. He continued to take 6000 photos across…

From deep inside E3 '07 I stole some time with Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson. We found a dark corner in the Library at the C3 at E3 party at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica and took the opportunity to wax poetic. Join us now as Major Nelson and I reflect on the good times, the bad times, the intimate…

DJ Scobot hosts: Half social, half showcase the VJ Night is both a regular meeting point for VJs, DJs, and everyone who is fascinated by this highly artistic medium as well as a showcase of some of the best work of local talents. Every month they invite local artists to share their work and…

The videos for Microsoft products are getting better every day. This morning I saw an email in my inbox from Barbora Zychova, who found this Office commercial with Amy Sedaris from Strangers with Candy, who is always hilarious. 

Robbie Bach and Kevin Johnson hosted an event for Microsoft employees showing us some of the products that will be available this season and let us sit in and talk to them afterwards. The presentation was over an hour long and it really didn't even scratch the surface of all the new products…

Your Windows Live homepage looking a bit drab? Sure your shiny new live.com inbox shows up and you've certainly got your 10 feeds plugged in as well, but it's still missing something isn't it? Well fear not, for Windows Live is getting a friend called Windows Live Gallery and we're giving you…

A few months back I recorded a video with Vertigo Software for their original 1.0 release.  And today, Microsoft is announcing an update to this release. This release adds a data grid (one of the common objections to WPF was the data grid functionality), multiple skins, new data…

Cesar from the Zune team stops by to give us some Zune love and a look at the new Halo 3 special edition Zune. Here are some of the stats you get with your new Zune: The Zune-Halo 3 edition plays music, pictures and videos on a bright, 3-inch screen and features built-in wireless to let you beam…

In celebration of Steve Job's announcement of MacBook Air...Microsoft just released Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 yesterday.  We're spreading the MAC love.  The Home and Student Edition includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage 2008. Open XML file compatibility allows Macs and…