Dinner and a PowerPoint? 'Working Dates' Catch On
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Many singles are so busy with careers that they don't have time for a social life. To cope, they're blending work and romance.
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We've passed the midway point here of this week-long affair, and we're noticing the effect that the more practical, toned down, brass-tacks Microsoft - without a glistening new operating system hovering twelve months into the future - is having on attendees.  We look at our five "flashpoint" topics we introduced on Friday, to see how well we were able to pre-gauge the mood of the conference.
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In a statement issued Thanksgiving Day -â perhaps timed appropriately, since the holiday is celebrated mainly in the US -â Microsoft said it had released all 8,500 pages of its technical documentation for interoperability, as requested by the European Commission, back in July.
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ON THE SCENE - Product managers at TechEd 2007 here gave BetaNews an early glimpse of Microsoft's next videoconferencing application, which will tie into both Office Communications Server (which we saw in detail at WinHEC three weeks ago) and Microsoft's own subscription-based conferencing services.
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Chris Shiflett has posted his own recap of the (just passed) php|works conference up in Toronto over on his blog.   I've been traveling non-stop since php|works, so I haven't had a chance to reflect on the conference, what I learned, who I met, and things like that. (Zak has been doing a good job of this lately, and I'd like to follow his lead.) I've probably forgotten more than I remember, but this is my recap.   Included in the things he mentions are:  The people he was able to meet (like Joshua Eichorn and Sebastian Bergmann) The talks he gave ("Truth about XSS" and "Agile PHP Testing") His interview with Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone The PHP 5 Certification and Wez Furlong's "Not PDO" talk
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Food, friends, and elf figurines add up. Here's some advice on how to handle the holiday tab.
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With more of his slides from the php|works conference, John Coggeshall has posted this listing of his major talks in the past year (or so).
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The new Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium has unveiled plans to create standards to make it easier for computer users to share calendars and related information with people outside their companies.
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By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 10--As the clock ticks toward 2 a.m. Sunday, when timekeeping in most of the country shifts to daylight-saving time, computer experts hope for a non-glitch switch.
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This week is the wrapup for this series. We're going to have a look at recording, editing and producing PowerPoint recordings, and additional tips. By Nathan Segal. 0117
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Think you can make it through the week ahead? Here is some financial news to look out for, plus crafty tips to make the leftovers go down smoothly.
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A few notes on the NY Times outline... 1. I switched it back to the frequency sort, having tried it as an alphabetized list for about 18 hours. Now I want to see what happens with it flipped around so the most frequent keyword bins appear first. 2. Not sure, but I think it will empty out later this afternoon, as yesterday's stories expire, and before tomorrow's stories ship.  3. It seems that at least some people have bookmarked the site and are refreshing it. If so, I'm glad -- because that's the way these pages are most useful, they tell you something about what changed. Remember this is "news" not olds. 4. The outline view is something like TechMeme for the Times news flow. Not exactly because the keywords are assigned by people. Unseen news mavens. Where do they reside? Are they on the upper floors or in the basement of the NY Times skyscraper on 8th Ave, or somewhere inbetween? Maybe they work out of their homes. My mind wants to visualize these people, but I have nothing to cling to. It's not an algorithm that's determining where things sort out, it's people. Otherwise known as editors? Or are they librarians? 5. Do you bookmark the outline or the river? I'm a river guy for sure. I wonder about other people. 6. Francine Hardway twitted at me: "Times River is awesome on my iPhone! Was reading it while waiting for eye surgery and it was very distracting." Amen. That's the big secret. I wish there were a way to get everyone to look at the river on their cell phone. Eyes would open. 7. Thinking about integrating the two views, cross-relating them. Not sure exactly what I'll try first. That's why I wanted to let it settle in for a bit before moving in a other directions. 8. Of course, I know that if this ever becomes a "real" product, the user is going to control the view he or she wants to be the default. But for right now I'm experimenting. I want to see what people think. Enough people were asking for an alpha view that I wanted to see what would happen when I gave it to them, and if anyone would scream. Screaming isn't a bad thing, it's data.
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At first, the innovation sounds simple enough: Representative- elect Kirsten Gillibrand has decided to post details of her work calendar on the Internet at the end of each day so constituents can tell what she is actually doing for their money.  In fact, it is a quiet touch of revolution.
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In a move to draw small business users away from services such as Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, Google today announced the TimeBridge collaborative calendar tool will be made compatible with Google Enterprise Professional.
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At pecha-kucha events, designers, architects and dilettantes each showcase 20 PowerPoint slides in 20 seconds. They say what they need to say in those six minutes and 40 seconds and then take their seat. The result? Compelling beat-the-clock performance art.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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Blog: The software maker is showing the tabletop computer to its partners on Thursday, but it will be until April before they can do much more than look at the device.