Category: Blogs and Blogging

Windows Live Writer lives again

There was a fair bit of coverage of Microsoft’s move to Windows Live Spaces from their service to WordPress, as part of the rationalisation of the Windows Live suite, but the good news (which has just been pointed out to me) is in a ZDNet update: For those worried about the future of Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer blogging tool/app, Microsoft officials say there is no plan to phase it out and it will remain part of the Windows Live family. Good, because for me it’s the perfect blogging client.

Introducing the Travelling Geeks…

Today is the first of two days when myself and the Travelling Geeks are bouncing round Paris talking to new start-ups. The collection of bloggers reads like a Dirty Dozen of the tech reporting world… and we have a movie trailer-esque introduction to us all. At some point I’ll complain I’m wearing the wrong tartan. You can follow the fun at www.travellinggeeks.com.

But I Came Here For An Argument! Le Web’s Greatest Success

If Christmas is coming up, that can mean a few things, but one of them is that Geraldine Le Meur’s conference, Le Web, is just round the corner. It’s managed to make itself one of the tent-pole conferences in the Web 2.0 year which is not bad going seeing as it is as far away from Silicon Valley as is possible. Why has it got that position? Because unlike other conferences it has built up a mystique around it that makes it attractive. Not just because of the speakers, or the company news that comes out of the conference. Not