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Tal Ater from Green Any Site, found a hidden (?) piece of code when he was writing an application for Facebook. It is a programmable object called ‘VideoChat’. The object has several properties, some of them are related to Skype.
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I have just read this on the The Microsoft Office Blog by Office VP Takeshi Numoto:
“Facebook‘s new messaging platform integrates the Office Web Apps to enable Facebook users to view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents with just one click. As you know, Office helps you create stunning documents that bring your ideas to life. Now you can easily share those ideas with your friends and family on Facebook. I’m really excited about being able to make it even easier for people to use Office to access and share information across different devices, networks and platforms. With the Office Web Apps on Facebook, you have even more ways to express yourself with Office and easily share your thoughts with people that are important to you.
When you receive a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document attachment in your Facebook message, click "View on Office.com" to view it in the browser in high fidelity via Office Web Apps or click "Download" to download the file to your computer (where you can open it in Office on your computer).”
In my post yesterday I suggested that Facebook may add email to their services. Today Mashable confirms “It is not email”.
Apparently this Facebook messaging system will be a more seamless, chat-like experience with a ‘social’ inbox. This would mean that the inbox will reflect the relationship you have with a sender or recipient of the email (I got that part right).
The system will run on multiple platforms, including phones.
I certainly hope it is not like Google Wave.
All is explained in this blog post from Facebook’s Joe Seligstein.
What I noticed:
There is a good video explanation on the blog entry by Joe.
Today I looked at this website. Looks cool and shows that Microsoft is ramping up quite nicely to the introduction of Phone 7. So I went along and clicked on the shop now button in the left below corner of the page:
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This brought me to a page listing all countries that have “Windows Phones” available. So I clicked “Netherlands”. The next page was Dutch, *but no reference at all to Windows Phone 7*. It still advertises Windows Mobile 6.5.
My next action was to go back to the page with the all the countries listed and clicked “United States”. This showed me again a nice page and I clicked on the link in the left below corner:
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A new page opened, showing me:
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Oh and by the way, if you click “Belgium and Luxemburg (Dutch)”, there is a reference to Windows Phone 7:
(this is a small clip of the page)
*Sigh* How hard is it to get these things right? Just show me a page explaining in which regions it will or will not be available after launch, together with a timeline. I am sure you can do that stunningly in Silverlight. This way of marketing and communicating is strange and shows no understanding of your (global) clients.
First video is an interview/walkthrough with “John from Microsoft” and published by IntoMobile.com and the second is a new (at least for me it is) promotional video on the product experiences.