Blogging

At Microsoft, there are a lot of product and support teams blogging – so many, in fact, that it can be hard to keep up with them all. If you tried to subscribe to all the sites on your own, you could be overwhelmed by the sheer number of posts. Well, now there’s a better way to keep up with…

Zemanta is a technology used by bloggers that inserts automatic links, adds relevant photos, adds links to related articles, and automatically tags your posts. The technology is available either as a browser plugin or a server-side plugin that supports either WordPress, Movable Type, or Drupal.…

Windows Live Writer has got to be, hands down, one of the most popular tools out of the whole Windows Live lineup. I know many a blogger (myself included) who can't live without it. That's why the recent release of the Windows Live Writer Tech Preview has everyone talking. The Windows Live Writer…

Publishing an API (Application Programming Interface) is an essential part to becoming part of Web 2.0.  Recently at the Web 2.0 expo, Michael Scherotter caught up with the Photobucket.com team who has just released a new API for their site. In this interview Michael talks…

Every once in a while you come across a video blogger that really catches your attention.  A collegue of mine Loke Uei Tan invited wine video blogger Gary Vaynerchuk to Redmond to attend an MS Mobile event.  Gary runs a daily wine blog and even if you don't care…

I just keep finding great plugins for Windows Live Writer! I recently moved my blog to WordPress and wanted to find out if WLW could support tags instead of just categories. As it turned out, the support to post tags is not enabled by default, so there are some things that have to be done in order…

I'm sitting in my living room watching the results to the New Hampshire primary and earlier this evening it was projected pretty early on that John McCain would take the top spot among the Republicans.  And Hillary Clinton just finished giving her speech as the winning Democrat. …

It seems that nowadays everybody has a blog. Some of us even have video blogs- well, I guess that's a vlog. (Bit of trivia: Blog is actually short for "web log") Anyway, for those of you out there who may be considering starting a blog, or even if you just want tips from some seasoned…

Mark Cuban is the man. Charismatic, intelligent and every little kid’s dream – the basketball fan who grew up to own the team. At BlogWorld Expo, however, Cuban addressed attendees not as the Mav’s owner, nor as the Dancing with the Stars participant; instead, Cuban’s intro slide read “Mark Cuban:…

Ever since its first beta release in August 2006, I've been a big fan of Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is a fully featured Windows blogging client with support for spell checking, WYSIWYG editing, picture uploading and custom plug-ins (with a full SDK). In addition to the expected…