Chris Alexander

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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A few weeks ago I wrote about s2dent.mobi, the Microsoft mobile site for students on the go.

Today I’d like to introduce you to another Microsoft site for students, with yet more freebies, information, competitions and more for you!

The site is called /student, and you can find it at microsoft.com/student. Here’s some of the great stuff you can find there…

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Dropped by Tesco for some food today and spotted this on the way in under the mainline from Reading to London. Wasn’t in a position to stop so on the way out I risked my frozen food defrosting and parked up and trekked back to snap it quickly. Only had my Nexus One on me, but it performed pretty well for a phone and turned out what I think is a fairly decent snap.

27/02/10

There is always talk of where the web could go next.

Constantly seeking the next “big thing”, entrepreneurs and large companies alike are pouring time, money, and intelligence into figuring out the next cool thing that can be done with the network that has the ability to connect us all.

But where can the web go from here?

The best answer to that question can be taken from extrapolating where we’ve come from into the future. Here’s what I think will be big in the coming months and years.

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