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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...

A friend in the UK tipped me off to a new app in the Windows Store this week. GetAbout.Me is a UK Bizspark partner who have taken their popular web app for social media sentiment analysis and turned it in to a beautiful and powerful Windows 8 application . It provides near real time sentiment analysis...

I’ve decided it’s time to bring some new voices to the blog and over the next few months will be inviting guest bloggers from across Microsoft to contribute here. I’m aiming to mix it up with some familiar faces and some new faces, from parts of the company you may be familiar with...

I’ve been looking for a great newsreader for Windows Phone for a while now and have tried several but until now, I’ve not found one that met my needs. Those needs include easy integration (and bi-directional sync) with Google Reader, strong social integration (ability to tweet, instapaper...

I see the team at FUSE Labs has been busy this week – they popped down to Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles to talk about the future of social and used the opportunity to announce a new project - CompanyCrowd . It’s easy enough to find information about a company online, but...

I’ve been presenting this slide a lot lately to explain some of the key areas Microsoft is focused on from a technology trends point of view. The slide doesn’t pretend to be all encompassing and focuses on tech trends (not social or macroeconomic). After a few iterations, a few trends such...

The daily twittersphere continues to remind us of the changing landscape of media and how we consume information. There's an inordinate amount of raw, unorganized information and insight that captures the analogy of drinking from a fire hose. To remedy the situation, the folks at FUSE Labs built a set...

My friends at FUSE Labs had plenty to show today at TechFest – Emporia and Montage are two projects that are great examples of re-using data from social networks. I’ve covered them both here before so thought I’d focus on the new application I saw today from FUSE. Social News Search...

Okay, Spindex is way more use to limit it just to monitoring your trending topics but that’s only very neat feature of the product I like. Spindex comes from our FUSE Labs team with the aim of bringing you your entire social world in one page. That’s a pretty ambitious goal but by bringing...

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...

I sat in a restaurant in today and watched two people ignore each other for 20 minutes over their lunch. They were engrossed in their phones, tapping away and chuckling to themselves while sat no more than 2 feet from presumably their significant other. What’s worse is I’ve been guilty of...

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...