http://micromiel.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:02:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to the awesome guys of the Live Search team, we recently bought Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. The exciting part of this rather administrative announcement is that Powerset adds natural language technology that nicely complements other natural language processing technologies we have in Microsoft Research. As ... http://micromiel.com/2008/07/03/hello-powerset/ One of the funniest time-wasters I've seen in the latest year is the quite popular LineRider app. A very simple thing, but still oh so fun to try out. It's been turned into a real art form by some, who've taken the design of their own game to the extreme ... http://micromiel.com/2008/07/03/linerider/ The Release Candidate of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 for public testing is now available at this location. This is the time to install and upgrade, and to send feedback to the team so they can still tune the final version. Power Pack 1 provides a range of ... http://micromiel.com/2008/06/12/home-server-update/ I've been nagging before about Facebook and the utter overload on 'apps' which are in fact total time-wasters, but today when I logged in... I was kind of surprized to see how much activity there's been in my network the last couple of days. Quite ridiculous in fact, and here's ... http://micromiel.com/2008/06/12/hello-facebook/ Harrah’s Entertainment and Microsoft are unveiling a new interactive entertainment experience with the deployment of six Microsoft Surface units at the iBar in Las Vegas’ Rio Hotel and Casino. Guests in the iBar will be able to play games, order customized drinks for themselves (or that special someone across the room) ... http://micromiel.com/2008/06/12/fun-in-vegas/ This Saturday (the 24th of May), I'm organizing an event for amateur-photographers in downtown Amsterdam. The day starts around 12 noon with a welcome and introduction at 'De Rode Hoed', a pretty classy venue naar the waterside. Around 40 photographers will be divided into 4 groups of 10, and will ... http://micromiel.com/2008/05/19/photo-event-amsterdam/ Microsoft’s consumer and online division in Europe announced the official release of Messenger TV to 21 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). With Messenger TV, we are bringing two ... http://micromiel.com/2008/05/16/messenger-tv-launched/ National Geographic Magazine is partnering with Microsoft to bring Stonehenge to life using the super cool PhotoSynth tool. The idea was to take a series of photographs and jigsaw them together in a 3D environment. Photosynth combines hundreds of high quality digital images and lets you browse them in a ... http://micromiel.com/2008/05/16/stonehenge-synth/ There's an initiative here at Microsoft that's called 'Give'. I wasn't really aware of it until recently when disaster struck China and Myanmar. Here's how it works: Microsoft partners with a variety of international organizations that support relief efforts, including The American Red Cross, CARE, MercyCorps - US, Save the ... http://micromiel.com/2008/05/16/give/ Even though internally we use another version of this clip, this is the clip I show at events whenever I need to show something about 'digital lifestyle'. I was a bit surprized to find it on MSN Soapbox and YouTube, but since it's out there, I'll post it here as ... http://micromiel.com/2008/05/15/girl-from-mars/