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This is a guest post by Ben Rudolph , a.k.a. Ben the PC Guy. Aside from the usual work-related stuff like email, texting and Twitter, the number one thing I do on my phone (today it’s a yellow Lumia 920 ) is take photos. Photos on the Lumia 920 look amazing – even the ones taken in less...

Just before the end of 2010, I wrote a post that was published on the Microsoft Corporate blog that I thought would be useful to recap here. The post talked about how “social” (either social computing or social networking) has taken hold in Microsoft. Facebook and Twitter and the...

As I’ve taken on this new role of exploring Microsoft I’ve been continually surprised with the range of roles within the company – in my opening post on this blog I mentioned ethnographers, cinematographers and of course developers. We have this variety of roles at Microsoft because...

What would your scrapbook of the web look like? Or your own curated magazine with content dynamically updated from YouTube, Twitter, RSS feeds, Bing images etc? Well now you can find out… At Web 2.0 a few weeks ago we showed Montage and until now you could only see what others had created with...

Wouldn’t it be great if instead of spending hours mining feeds and Twitter each day you could just go to a web page and have a personalized stream of news? A stream that learns about you over time and continues to get smarter about giving you just the right news for you. Yesterday at the...