Steve Clayton
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker
Lenovo’s Device Stage in Windows 7
I just ran the system update on my Lenovo T61p and was pleased to see a miniature icon of the T61...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/21/2009
Love cricket, hate Marmite
We all know about the love/hate relationship with Marmite and I’m in the hate camp…but I love this...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/21/2009
Microsoft Store: now hiring
Microsoft is now hiring staff for the first two retail stores in Scottsdale, Arizona and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/21/2009
Microsoft’s LifeCam Cinema
LifeCam Cinema was announced today – apparently the first consumer web cam with a native 720p...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/20/2009
SharePoint in plain English
SharePoint in Plain English It looks like my pal Lee over at CommonCraft has been doing some more...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/20/2009
Art & Copy
ART & COPY looks like my kind of movie. The guy at the end is a bit OTT with his view that...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/20/2009
New version of TweetMeMe Plugin
The plugin God that is Scott Lovegrove has updated his TweetMeMe Plugin for Windows Live...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/20/2009
How does the Internet see you? Get your online persona calculated
I’m having a lot of fun with Aaron Zinman's Personas. Zinman is a PhD student in MIT's...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/19/2009
The lessons of Microsoft Bob
Monica Harrington’s guest post on Techflash on The lessons of Bob is a great read. Bob has...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/19/2009
Windows Live Movie Maker now available
[update] check out the download site now with sample content [update] Kip now has his review up at...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/19/2009
Kaka plays for Microsoft
A.C. Milan WINS more games with Microsoft I was trawling through a few videos today during a slow...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/19/2009
Working Around The World
Click the image for the big version. South Korea…wow, you're busy! tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla';
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/18/2009
Great Ads #22
Very smart ad from Lego. hat tip to Visual Attitudes tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla';
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/18/2009
10 Tips on how to think like a designer…and tell stories
[image credit: Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/18/2009
Google as a roommate
Too funny not to share hat tip to SwissMiss
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/17/2009
Trust Agents
I just bought this great new book called Trust Agents from Chris Brogan*. Why did I buy it? Because...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/17/2009
Geek Marketing
3 years on this is still a great post by John Dodds on geek technical marketing. It’s no surprise...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/17/2009
Echo music player
Following on from the TED player I posted about last week, I was checking out a few other apps from...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/16/2009
Gapingvoid Cube Grenade
One of my favourite images from Hugh arrived this week at Chez Clayton in the form of a Cube...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/16/2009
A Sunday video
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/16/2009
The Man Who Walked Around the World
A fabulous video and story about Johnnie Walker starring Robert Caryle. Evidently it was shot in a...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/15/2009
What’s your social media mojo?
To mark the arrival of the new Yahoo! homepage they launched a new tool that helps you analyze your...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/14/2009
I just had Gordon Brown in my living room
Wow…I never thought I’d be blogging here about Gordon Brown but having just watched his talk from...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/14/2009
TED player
I’ve been a fan of the work of Thirteen23.com for a long time and recently went back to try their...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/14/2009
The future is closer than you think
The team at Thinking Digital has begun releasing videos of some of this years talks and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/14/2009
Microsoft NERD gets a logo
Nope, Microsoft NERD is not the latest version of Microsoft Bob…it the acronym for our...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/13/2009
Zune HD pre-order
The Zune HD website got an update last night and it’s now available for pre-order. The 32gb...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/13/2009
Nokia & Microsoft announce mobile alliance
I just tuned in to the Microsoft and Nokia joint conference call with Stephen Elop and Kai Öistämö....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/12/2009
The Private Cloud hoopla
Another fine post from Tom Bittman If You Build a Private Cloud, Will Anyone Come?. He helps cut...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/12/2009
The shallow war of wallpapers
I don’t get all this kerfuffle around wallpapers in Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard. Both have great...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/12/2009
2 new Software plus Services videos
Together Anywhere A new Software plus Services video crossed by my browser today and it sits...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/11/2009
Olympus Pen
Everyone is doing stop motion right now….this is one of my favourites. Olympus PEN which harks back...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/10/2009
Can you MakeOfficeBetter.com ?
I had a look at MakeOfficeBetter.com over the weekend and was actually a little surprised to see it...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/10/2009
Behind the scenes of TED
A great little video of what it makes to put on probably the best conference in the world. It’s...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/09/2009
Geek etiquette
Just a fun photo more than anything. From Wired’s New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans. Specifically,...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/07/2009
Artists
Good ones copy, great ones steal….I stole this from Thinking aloud Ironically I have a Daniel Dens...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/07/2009
Black Mac
Maybe this is what my Mac Classic is destined for? https://www.thomaswilliams.com.au tweetmeme_source...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/06/2009
Get Windows 7 today
if you’re an ISV or IHV the Windows 7 RTM code is coming your way today via MSDN or Connect – same...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/05/2009
Zune HD hands-on
(Credit: Donald Bell/CNET Networks) The Zune HD must be getting close now with such a...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/05/2009
Poor use of images in slides
Hot on the heels of my Bing slide deck last week, I thought this post by Garr Reynolds was worth...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/04/2009
Video: Microsoft’s Visitors Centre
very nice video from Wallpaper showing our visitor centre in Seattle. Designed by SkB architects...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/03/2009
The web browser ballot
This is the proposed ballot screen that European users of Windows 7 will see and it looks like...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/02/2009
Microsoft launches Seadragon.com
e Our Live Labs team has launched Seadragon.com which allows you to share images of pretty much any...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/31/2009