Chris Alexander

Over the past few months I’ve been playing on and off with Skimlinks, a UK-based service providing easy monetisation of outbound links for websites. You may have also seen my post about how excellent their customer service is.

My desktop Huddle client, Clustr, wasn’t the only Adobe AIR application to launch last week. Skimlinks also announced the release of Skimkit, their tool for publishers to find relevant products for their website.

From the Skimkit website:

Filled with a live database of millions of products from Skimlinks merchants, SkimKit changes the way you research content; saving you time, and providing you with more targeted and relevant results, right to your desktop.

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Team Foundation Server is a product that Microsoft have been selling to work with Visual Studio for many years now. Over time it has evolved, and with the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010, I thought now would be a great time to check out Team Foundation Server in more detail; specifically how it can help students get their projects done faster and better.

Team Foundation Server used to be the companion to Visual Studio Team System (which acted as the client). With VS 2010, Team System has been integrated into the core of Visual Studio. This provides two benefits – better support as it’s baked right in, and more students can get access to it for free!

There are 3 main targets of Team System:

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Today I logged on to Google.com for the first time in several days. I immediately noticed that the design of the homepage has had a bit of an overhaul.

I had a look, and it seems that very few accounts are getting the new design – I couldn’t find mention of it on Twitter or Google (even results within the past few days).

There seem to be more than a few changes in the homepage this time round. Here’s a quick run-down.

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Today I am extremely happy to announce the public availability of Clustr Desktop.

Clustr Desktop has been over a year in the making, and 18 months since its first release under the guise of Huddle Desktop, it has now been rewritten, upgraded, polished and rebranded enough for you all to start making some serious use out of it. More...

Recently I read an interesting post on Marc My Words entitled “11 Characteristics of Highly Successful Blog(ger)s”.

Being a leading evangelist at Microsoft UK, you’d expect him to know a thing or two about blogging, but he does seem overly critical of himself in his evaluation.

In an attempt to see how well I am getting on with this blogging lark – especially since I have been putting considerably more effort into my site – I have filled in my thoughts on my progress.

From one post every few months to almost daily now, I think the site has had a bit of a revolution – and a huge increase in traffic – to show for my effort.

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