Microsoft are eyeing a stake in Facebook; that’s the story, according to the Wall Street Journal. (Well, not so much the WSJ; more like”people familiar with the matter”) Hot on the heels of the news that Google is about to expand on their efforts in the social networking services space, with the goal of out-Facebooking [...]

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I’m wondering whether it’s time to change the tool I use for drafting my blog posts offline. I’ve been using Microsoft Live Writer beta since it was released in mid-2006, which when it was released, generated a lot of surprisingly positive buzz in the usually anti-Microsoft blogosphere. Being a beta version, it’s not without its quirks – [...]

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I didn’t use Live Messenger for a long time, and actually went so far as to uninstall it from my machines; but, you know how it is; lots of my friends still prefer to use Live Messenger rather than Skype or Google Talk, so I installed it again. I was going through my news feeds [...]

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