Steve Clayton
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker
State of the art is a temporary state
A great ad by Nokia from a few years back. Wow, things change quickly eh? This was only 3 years...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/31/2010
Windows Phone 7 is pulling in to the platform
[updated to resolve errors in my original post, thanks for comments] I’ve read a few interesting...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/31/2010
Error messages
Though I've stopped using MetroTwit for the moment due to memory issues, I do love the attention to...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/31/2010
Two geek stats that took me by surprise this weekend
First up was whilst I was reading the latest edition of Wired. Atari announced the 2600 at CES in...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/29/2010
Do I buy an Imation Link?
I’ve been relatively quiet on the tech buying from since I arrived in Seattle (okay, I did buy a new...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/29/2010
Repainting a 747
Brilliant video. I hate to think how much it costs to do this 4 day job tweetmeme_source =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/27/2010
Microsoft’s FUSE Labs releases teamcrossword beta
I got to spend some time with the FUSE Labs teams from around the world this morning, taking a look...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/27/2010
Bing Treasure Maps
I’m probably way late to the game with this one but who else knew about Bing Treasure Maps? They...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/26/2010
Designing rodents at Microsoft
Don’t worry, we’ve not got in to the genetic engineering business (yet)…I’m talking about design of...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/26/2010
Microsoft Research talent
Technology Review just published their annual list of young innovators – all under 35’s who are...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/26/2010
Connecting the dots at Microsoft
One thing we know we can do a better job of here at Microsoft is connect the dots a bit better...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/25/2010
Prototyping NUI on paper
Another good spot by Long who noticed a video of August de los Reyes posted on Facebook by our...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/25/2010
The only computer speakers you’ll ever need
To call these things computer speakers is really rather underselling them – work’s or art may be...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/25/2010
Xbox 360 gets an outing at Hot Chips
Pretty geeky this one but interesting nonetheless to see how the new Xbox has been put together and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/24/2010
You know you have a cult following when…
….when you can create a limited edition version of your product. And it’s a hoover. This is the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/24/2010
Is the writing on the wall for books?
As we moved in to our new apartment (I mean flat) last weekend, the moving company guys remarked...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/22/2010
King of Bing Maps App Contest Winners announced
I’m a huge fan of Bing Map Apps – I think it’s a great platform for people to innovate on and the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/20/2010
IKEA Unveils Kitchen of the Future
I’m doing a lot of future thinking at the moment and getting to spend time with the great and the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/19/2010
Visualizing your FourSquare movements
Even before Facebook announced Places yesterday, I was writing this post about the perils of...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/19/2010
Facebook Places using Bing Maps
| [image courtesy of Chris Pendleton] Big news on the web today (well, on Techmeme) is Facebook...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/18/2010
Windows Live Messenger + Facebook chat = 800m social
Chris Jones just did a post on the Inside Windows Live blog about todays beta refresh of...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/17/2010
The future of search
This is not a post lambasting Google – it’s a post lambasting search. When you need a cheat sheet...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/17/2010
Microsoft Biology Foundation
Microsoft Biology Foundation? I know, I did a double take too. Turns out it’s a “language-neutral...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/16/2010
Windows Phone 7 elegancy
Let’s hope all Windows Phone 7 apps have this attention to detail and elegance. Several I have seen...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/15/2010
Blaise in BusinessWeek
Good to see Blaise back in the news last week. I’m off to meet him this week…any questions you’d...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/15/2010
Mini speaker
As gadgets go, this is about one of the best I have – a present from a good friend of mine who knows...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/14/2010
pptPlex gets touch support
It’s been a while since I’ve played with pptPlex but it’s time for me to take another look as...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/12/2010
Microsoft Adaptive Keyboard prototype
I just noticed this Adaptive Keyboard prototype on our MS Hardware blog – it has a touch panel above...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/12/2010
PowerPoint, bullets and Bill
Ed Bott tweeted about the post titled Bullets are dead. Long live PowerPoint this morning which has...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/12/2010
Bing dynamic - fresh wallpaper, updated automatically
it’s actually surprising that this has taken so long and though there are 3rd party versions...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/10/2010
Your life in the future
Doogie Horner’s view of the future in infographic form – the present is depicted in black and the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/09/2010
Settlers of Catan gets the Surface treatment
This has already been reported in a number of places and my friends at Vectorform have been getting...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/06/2010
Crowdsourcing game development
[image via engadget] this made me smile – on the fly crowdsourcing from Peter Molyneux. get the full...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/05/2010
A shocking presentation on social media
A shockingly good presentation that is… tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla';
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/04/2010
Visualising the Apple App Store
The amount of data we are subjected to every day is phenomenal. I’ve blogged about it before but...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/04/2010
Microsoft’s Live Labs launches zoom.it
The Live Labs team launched zoom.it earlier today with the aim of making is simple to make and share...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/04/2010
Yahoo and Microsoft search alliance
Neat little video on the search alliance. hat tip to MelC tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla';
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/03/2010
The fastest cloud out there?
Foresight is a gift some folks have so when our executives decided to give the go ahead to plunder a...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/03/2010
Microsoft hardware teasing us
What do our hardware guys have up their sleeves? They’re teasing via their Twitter account and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/03/2010
iPhone fandom
thinking of ordering this for a few friends Kudos to Apple that a black shape is now symbolic...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/03/2010
Microsoft sticker fest
It’s been a good few weeks for my sticker collecting habit here on MS Campus, Redmond. This...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/02/2010
Gear– my new headset
It’s been a while since I wrote about any gear so thought I’d do a quick post on my latest Jawbone...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/02/2010
Kinect: the backstory
Network World covered Craig Mundie’s talk at our Financial Analyst Meeting last week and zoned in on...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/02/2010
Do you suffer from shaky hand photos?
We’ve all suffered from blurred images at times – whether nervously taking a photo of Lindsay...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 08/01/2010
Discovering Bing
I use Bing almost exclusively these days – there are moments when i drop back to Google but less and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/30/2010
Pivot your Twitter world
I’m a big fan of Pivot – it works the way my mind tends to work which is to look at things from...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/30/2010
Microsoft Street Slide takes street maps to a new level
Street side images on maps are terrific but they can be problematic at times as you get stuck in the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/28/2010
FourSquare on Windows Phone 7
A nice spot by Sarah Perez this one. If you’re one of the lucky few with a Windows Phone 7,...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 07/27/2010