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Monday, February 8, 2010
New Microsoft License ... Microsoft is contemplating a new user license type, to support its new Azure platform. " Heavy and regular users of a Microsoft app might require an on-premise server version, while light users can make do with a hosted version from Microsoft. SDTimes said the union license would either apply to Microsoft Office run locally and hosted on the just-launched Windows Azure, or to Exchange Co-Working ... Co-working provides an opportunity for people working remotely from work to still have time with others. "
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
The 'Book now rivals Yahoo's position as the third largest web entity in the world, which would rank it second only to Google and Microsoft. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams (@emodkate). In this update: Now Facebook Is Six; ITN's German Celeb-Channel; and YouTube's rental predicament. ON FACEBOOK ... ON TWITTER ... ON YOUTUBE ... BRANDS GET SOCIAL ... VIRTUAL AND GAMES ... THINKING ... ON FACEBOOK ... As we briefly noted on Friday, it was Facebook’s 6th Birthday
 
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Another surprise was the improved integration with Microsoft Outlook and Office. " More Microsoft and NSF on the Cloud ... NSF researchers can get free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud for the next 3 years. " Microsoft released Office 2010 as "Release Candidate" to members of the TAP program. - Write and Google Wave ... Wrike announced an integration with Google Wave, for better task tracking. "
 

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Microsoft design point is to co-mingle structured collaboration tools alongside social computing tools - it's unrealistic to think of social computing disconnected from collaborations strategies Microsoft also thinks of the IT Pro ... Microsoft believes SharePoint scales to meet as narrow or broad a view an organization has on social computing, you can use it in a very classic Notes from Christian Finn, Director, Social Computing 13 sessions in "social track"
I am at a Microsoft event in Christchurch (New Zealand), co-presented by Intergen New Zealand . The event is focused on how to use various Microsoft technologies for emergency response. You can learn more about the initiative at Microsoft Citizen Safety Architecture, at www.microsoft.com/csa . The architecture describes how to use various Microsoft technologies to support agencies and organizations focused on citizen safety. There's about 50 people here for the 2 hour session.
I thought I would offer some comments on some UC predictions offered by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who heads Microsoft's UC group: No Jitter | Microsoft: Gurdeep's UC Predictions single identity with presence at the core is spot on - but it makes you wonder why Microsoft does not openly share its rich presence information? 1. UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who slap a "unified" label on products that are anything but.
With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Interesting - but I remain quite skeptical - especially regarding "MOSS 2007 as your default option for enabling and managing social networks for business use". This situation can influence decision-making - people may prefer to evolve with Microsoft over the next couple of years as they figure this space out - especially for internal deployments. Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta
I really do enjoy seeing this type of innovation coming from Microsoft - the SharePoint team could learn a lot by working more closely with these folks - and consider leveraging their solutions for the next release of SharePoint. Brier Dudley's blog | Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter+Facebook on steroids | Seattle Times Newspaper It's been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine -- a service that's debuting today with a beta test in Seattle -- could be a contender. Vine is a hyperlocal, personalized
It combines the kind of money-management tools you get in Quicken or Microsoft Money but adds a social layer on top of this. Tags: social media Virtual community marketing Wesabe Online Community Examples Microsoft freshminds web2.0 online communities customer communities FreshNetworks Royal Bank of Canada word of mouth On the Web Web Marketing and Advertising qualitative market research Social Media Microsoft Money Social network service online For this week’s instalment in our series of online community examples we turn to the financial services industry. Online
Microsoft is trying to "have it's cake and eat it to". Cloud does not make it any easier for Microsoft to deliver business capabilities defacto any faster if (1) internally, the development cycle remains the same and (2) there are no specific architectural changes to allow different collections of components to be released at different pace rates.  While there is a level of irrational exuberance right now at the conference given all the changes in this release (there is a lot in SP2010 to like), business and IT Jeff Teper, Corporate VP; Kirk Koenigsbauer, GM Question:
Christen Anderson of Microsoft SMB shares two suggestions for SMB marketers to engage in Social Media. Tags: Microsoft Social Media MGX1 Recorded at MGX10 ...Tags:
Microsoft (103) Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media altimeter group Brand Business charline li co-creation customer communities EBay facebook freshminds FreshNetworks Google Microsoft online communities online consultation social media social networking starbucks Thomson Reuters Twitter Virtual community web2.0 Image by communista_unicorn via Flickr There are some great examples of brands using social media that we use a lot at FreshNetworks .
If there's good news - at least Microsoft realizes that the intersect between social media / social networking and CRM is important to address. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Announces New Solution Accelerators: CRM Accelerators have exceeded 50,000 downloads to drive customer and partner value. This is a smart enhancement to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.” I'm still catching up with my backlog of news, feeds, etc - but this caught my attention - but not in a good way - it seems to be a fairly feeble attempt to cover the brand monitoring / reputation space. Demo is simplistic