Steve Clayton
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker
ISV’s and Azure
Why should an independent software vendor (ISV) care about cloud computing? The answer is simple:...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/14/2009
BingTweets.com is back
I missed this first time out….more cool work from the Bing team to fuse together Bing and Twitter to...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/14/2009
I’m Speaking at TEDx Liverpool…and bringing Microsoft Surface
I’m always a sucker for speaking gigs in Liverpool as I get to go home and see the family but there...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/14/2009
Windows Azure Platform: Business Model Announced
Today at our Worldwide Partner Conference we announced the business plan and pricing for the Windows...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/14/2009
Windows 7 RTM – Not Yet
Straight from the horses mouth - Windows 7 has not hit RTM…yet. Despite all of the hoopla and some...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/14/2009
Office 2010 brings Office to the browser
See What's New in Microsoft Web Applications 2010 Okay so this is hardly news now as it was all over...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/13/2009
Traffic in the Cloud with Azure, Bing Maps, DeepZoom
A very nice mashup of Bing Maps, DeepZoom and traffic cameras that uses Azure to do the background...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/12/2009
Bristol vs. Banksy: Worth the wait
I popped down to Bristol yesterday to check out the Banksy exhibition at Bristol City Museum – aptly...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/12/2009
Microsoft back at the top of UK Superbrands
I noticed the 2009/10 Superbrands results today. They’re as much a surprise to me as they probably...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/12/2009
Sobees bDule – Silverlight 3 Twitter client
This new Twitter client from Sobees (it’s called bDule) almost passed me by until I saw a Tweet from...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/11/2009
Chalkbot at the Tour de France
Chalkbot is a project from Nike and Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong foundation. The Tour De France is...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/10/2009
Thank Bing It’s Friday
The image from the UK version of Bing today….I wish I was heading there this Friday. Note to Bing –...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/10/2009
Every job is now temporary
My friend Katie Ledger has finished up her book and it’s coming soon – available for pre-order from...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/10/2009
Office 2010: The Movie (RIP Clippy)
What’s going on in Redmond….we’re having an advertising frenzy right now with Bing ads, IE8 ads...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/10/2009
Imagine Cup moves on to Poland
I haven’t quite figured out how yet but I’m going to find a way to be at the Imagine Cup next year...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/09/2009
Trek Bike by Damien Hirst
Regular readers will know I’ve been following the Trek bike designs of Lance Armstrong and have been...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/09/2009
Microsoft’s interoperable cloud
A busy week for Azure and more to come next week at Worldwide Partner Conference. Meantime, Mary-Jo...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/09/2009
Field Notes Goodness
Whilst National Express gets customer service woefully wrong, Field Notes gets it just right. Not...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/09/2009
National Express #fail
National Express seem perfectly capable of sending me email about their problems but not replying to...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/09/2009
SQL Services is now SQL Azure
Renaming SQL Services to SQL Azure makes total sense to me – it starts to make it very...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/09/2009
New Laptop Hunters Ad from Microsoft
Everyone has been concentrating on the IE and Bing ads but I’ve been keeping a beady eye on...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/08/2009
Tweetmeme Plugin Updated
My buddy Scott Lovegrove has updated his excellent Tweetmeme plugin for Windows Live Writer....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/08/2009
Twitter Infoporn
An interesting view of the impact of Twitter on the creation and circulation of news. From the blog...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/07/2009
TREK Art Bike
Marc Newson + Lance Armstrong + Trek = cool via SLAMXHYPE tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/07/2009
IE8 Accelerators and Tesco by Microsoft UK
My evangelist chums here in the UK have been busy for a little while producing some great...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/07/2009
Under the (Microsoft) Surface
A new cartoon from Hugh…I’m sure the folks in the Microsoft Surface team will like this...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/07/2009
Microsoft’s Subscription Enrollment for Schools
Microsoft’s education offerings are not something I spend that much time thinking about – largely as...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/06/2009
New, Large Format iPod
Modelled by Sir Paul Smith – a birthday present to him from Jonathan Ive. tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/06/2009
Remixing Hardware = Radiohead
Big Ideas (don't get any) This may not appeal to everyone and to be honest I’m still not a...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/06/2009
Spooky
Weird…I was reading a piece in The Sunday Times this morning about the return of Lance Armstrong to...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/05/2009
Feedly To Replace My Google Reader?
Sadly for my employer it’s stuff like Feedly that will keep Firefox installed on my machine (albeit...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/03/2009
Citroen GT leaps from Playstation to the road
I noticed my pal Jason just blogged this too the Citroën GT has made an impressive move off...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/03/2009
Microsoft Maren – On The Fly Arabic Translation Utility
I love stuff like this….smart, innovative use of technology to make people’s lives easier. The...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/02/2009
TweetCraft – A Twitter Client for WoW
Very cool - TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft :)...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/02/2009
Get Your Photography in front of millions with Bing.com
Larry Larsen just posted about a Facebook contest from the Bing team that gives you the opportunity...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/02/2009
Bing Getting Realtime With Twitter
Nice move by the Bing team – they’ve started to index Twitter, albeit a small corner of the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/02/2009
The Coolest Resume/CV
How’s this for a CV/resume? Brilliant….hat tip to @IA tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/01/2009
COBOL Reaches 50
COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language was the only programming I was ever any good at…even then...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/01/2009
Steve McQueen vs. Lewis Hamilton
Courtesy of LimitedHype….absolutely brilliant…apart from the missing finger of Steve of course :)...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 06/30/2009
Kutcher Loves Bing
The dude who was first to hit a million followers on Twitter is a Bing fan. Ashton Kutcher….gracias....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 06/30/2009
Windows.com gets 7’ed
Now that pretty much all the news is out there in terms of Windows 7 availability and pricing it’s...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 06/30/2009
Le Tour Du Clayton Video
Final evidence in video format of my recent 250 mile ride from St Malo to Ile De Re. Back on the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 06/30/2009
Two More Microsoft Mega Datacenters next month
Our Global Foundation Services team posted on their blog yesterday about two more mega data centers...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 06/30/2009
User Experience Infographic
Cool graphic from the team at IA – with a blog post to soon follow I’m sure. Click the image for the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 06/30/2009