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  • Cool or not cool? If not, what is cooler and why?

    It is just Adobe Flash. 

  • XMPP and Microsoft

    I just googled to find market share in the IM market and fonud this:

  • AOL: 53 million
  • MSN: 27 million
  • Yahoo: 22 million
  • Google: 866,000

    I don't know how accurate those numbers are, but that is what I have.  Now, why would Microsoft want to use the protocol that is used by the player that has like 1% market share?  Where is the incentive to using an open protocol when they only add 866,000 potential customers.  If anything, MS did the right thing makeing Messenger interoperable with Yahoo.  Isn't IM about the users, not what communication protocol that powers it?

  • Scoble is right; Windows Live is done.

    and a search on the word "underwear" comes back with 0 results

  • Hillary Hit Ad-Vote Different

    raymond wrote:
    For balance, let us not forget John Edwards:

    John Edwards - I Am Woman


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-8csu7-bk&mode=related&search

    That was great..Presidentess.  I like the Beryl cube transitions too Smiley

  • Scoble, Please Read This

    I don't know how you can lump channel9 and on10 together..?!??  I think on10 is marketing, it is in the same leauge as scoble-like blogs.  Channel9 is nothing like 10 other than they both have videos.

  • Hillary Hit Ad-Vote Different

    W3bbo wrote:
    Amusing, and a good piece of work (no doubt done by a professional media company), but I don't get the totalitarian metaphor.

    How exactly is the Democratic party more Orwellian than the Republican? I honestly thought it was the other way around.
    This video isn't Republican VS Democrat, it is Hillary vs Obama or Democrat vs Democrat.

  • Scoble, Please Read This

    I was thinking the same thing as I was reading scobles comments.  I read channel9 almost every day, and I don't see it as a marketing site, anymore than MSDN, developer.yahoo.com, or code.google.com. 

    I don't know much about scoble, other than his laugh I really don't miss from the videos.  Is he a developer?  I really don't know, but I don't think so. 

    I am a developer and I think of channel9 as an interactive MSDN.  I have already committed myself to be a Windows developer, I don't need sold.  What I do need is a group of people showing me things that Microsoft software can do that I didn't know and couldn't have found easily by searching MSDN. (using google seach because we all know that MS search is bad...thanks for the update scoble).

  • IE HTML controls hard to see in Vista

    Sven Groot wrote:
    The IE team didn't do anything. They just use whatever style Windows is using.

    I see what you are saying, if I create a blank WinForm with controls on it, they are hard to see too.

  • IE HTML controls hard to see in Vista

    I worry about people like my parents when they switch to vista.  There is no way they can see these controls.  The worst is a single textbox hidden among text, it just looks like whitespace.

    I wonder why the IE team made such drastic changes to HTML controls with little apprent benefit.

  • IE HTML controls hard to see in Vista

    This is on my laptop, so I don't have many external options for adjusting the display.  Aside from brightness.