I talked to James at his office in Tampa, Florida about bringing Executive Caddie to Windows Phone 7 and about his companies use of Microsoft technologies in building out a set of products and services that can help golfers get the most they can out of the game.

Resources for this post:

• Executive Caddie
• Executive Caddie on Zune Marketplace
• Windows Phone 7 for Developers
• Microsoft Platform Ready
• Ignition Showcase

Links:

• Glo Bible
• Windows Client
• BizSpark Home Page
• Ignition Showcase
  

Abby Fichtner, Microsoft Evangelist for Startups, went to Dogpatch Labs Boston to meet with Localytics’ founders to talk about what Localytics does and to learn how developers can integrate Localytics into their own Windows Phone 7 applications.

Learn more in Localytics’ announcement.

This weekend, I talked to Kyle Gomboy of Reaction Grid about the new site and about how developers can use 3D worlds to learn a little more about Windows Phone 7.

• SocialGrow
• Microsoft BizSpark
• Boston BizSpark Meetup
• Abby's Blog (The Hacker Chick Blog)

Cubano and Miami native Perez Hilton (www.perezhilton.com), the "Queen of all Media", is the internet's most notorious gossip columnist. Perez was named the #1 Web Celeb for 2007 by Forbes Magazine and has recently been tapped as one of the 15 most influential Hispanics in the US by People in Espanol.

 

Partnering with Perez's Media Agency, BMF MEdia(www.bmfmedia.com), Microsoft, and Agency Partner, Vectorform (www.vectorform.com) have delivered an IE8 Web Slice for Perez Hilton.

 

The IE8 Web Slice can be downloaded at:

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/bloggings/Perez_Hilton_Celebrity_Gossip/

Show Links:

The Hacker Chick Blog
Visual Studio 2010 Launch Events
MSDN
@Home with Azure
MPN East Blog

This is our first podcast and we decided that rather than just doing this with audio, we would record our Microsoft Communicator Video as well. The show was recorded using Microsoft Expression 3 Encoder Screen Capture. We plan to tighten up the show going forward, but for now, this was our proof of concept. If you have any suggestions or comments about the show, please leave a note.

Wayne Beekman, co-founder of Information Concepts, made the decision early on that Cloud Computing was going to play an important role in the future of his company.  Today he is a recognized thought leader and subject matter expert and has been featured in several technical publications for his work in cloud computing.  In this session Wayne takes the opportunity to build on part 1 of our 2-part series, offering his perspective on cloud computing and Azure and his thoughts on how to engage in strategic discussions with your customers to uncover new opportunities to help grow your business.

Microsoft Partners, Have You Pondered the Business Opportunity behind Azure? 

We’ve all heard about the industry shift to the Cloud, but are you jumpstarting your Windows Azure business to be a part of it?

Chris Rolon, an Architectural Consultant with Neudesic has been working with Azure since it was first announced at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in 2008.   As a senior thought leader and recognized subject matter expert in this area, Chris spearheaded early adoption at his company as well as having lead and completed several customer engagements.  In this session Chris provides a soups-to-nuts overview of the platform, discusses the potential upside market opportunity for partners and presents his perspective on how to get-started identifying and developing Azure opportunities.

In this interview Microsoft Evangelists John McClelland and Brian Johnson talked to Hedgehog about the Microsoft Partner Program, developing a Facebook application with Azure, and about working with BizSpark startups.