Mark Johnston's Blog
Joe Wilson's Pre-Kick Off: Imagine Cup 2008 Paris I'll be there from 3 - 6 July with the 3 teams...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/24/2008
A week ago, the best students competing in the UK and our Microsoft Student Partners descended upon...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/13/2008
Thanks to the Imagine Cup this year, I've spent quite a lot of time talking to government agencies,...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/13/2008
We had this really slick video created to explain the Imagine Cup. It is now up on Channel 8 and I...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/10/2008
My pal Chris (doesn't blog) has just launched the Microsoft Store. It offers a load of our consumer...
Author: markjohnston Date: 06/02/2008
I've been mad busy planning the UK Imagine Cup finals on the 5th June and haven't had a chance to...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/13/2008
Ed has the detail on us trying something new with our UK StudentZine Facebook page. The Facebook...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/09/2008
Andy has posted about XNA CC codes going into MSDN AA - great news if you are teaching games...
Author: markjohnston Date: 05/07/2008
This stuff is just too cool! Can't wait to see what the UK finalists come up with and how many get...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/29/2008
Pitching Your Idea Some great advice from Philip (MS) and Perry, a marketing professor in the US,...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/26/2008
The UK Microsoft Student Partner program is an award program for technical students at university...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/13/2008
I blogged about this before here and now it has been released (in the US it seems). In depth video...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/09/2008
There is only a little while left to get your copy of Office Ultimate for £38.95 if you are a...
Author: markjohnston Date: 04/07/2008
Looking forward to attending Future of Web Design in London in mid-April. The Academic team will be...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/31/2008
My first two videos on Channel 8 are now online. Yes, I do sound that weird (that's Northern Irish...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/25/2008
...is so strong that I had umbrellas made for a recent event: (The pantone matches the nebula logo...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/25/2008
I'm a big fan of Last.fm and will be giving this a go on my home machine for listening to music....
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/25/2008
It's been a busy couple of months for the Imagine Cup and we have a good 200-odd students fighting...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/20/2008
I work for the United Nations apparently. I work in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group at...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/18/2008
Not wanting to steal Steve's thunder on great ads :-) but this was too cool not to share.... (From...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/18/2008
It has all the usual gubbins you would expect from a community site with news, blogs, forums,...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/18/2008
Mel Carson just posted that the Microsoft had launched a new community around its adCenter platform....
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/17/2008
https://www.microsoft.com/express Features include: Animated landing pages Interactive menus to...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/16/2008
I kept hearing the soundtrack to this and thinking why is everyone in the office watching...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/14/2008
My mate Rob has started a blog on all things Silverlight. Not the dev or even the designer stuff but...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/12/2008
This is what greeted 60 academics from around the UK today at our Silverlight for Academics event at...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/12/2008
New site/community launches for Windows Vista Ultimate users to showcase the amazing things that...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/05/2008
Bit slow off the mark on this one as I was travelling north yesterday (wish I was travelling west to...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/05/2008
Following on from my post last week about the new UK site built using Silverlight here is another...
Author: markjohnston Date: 03/03/2008
(Credit for photo to svonog <- IC winner) The Windows Live team are running a promotion called...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/29/2008
There was a nice article on the digital Bedouin workers rocking up with laptops and enjoying coffee...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/29/2008
We are holding an event for UK academics (students supplying a .ac.uk email will be allowed to...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/28/2008
My good friend Chris has been working on this for a while and I wanted to be the first to blog about...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/26/2008
Scott Guthrie, a Corp VP has put up a first look at Silverlight 2 and has included 8 part tutorial...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/22/2008
I love this product! I tend not to back stuff up there much but do use it a lot to send files to...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/22/2008
HP's UMPC 2133 to cost $630 when shipping in April- If this is true then I'm so getting one of...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/21/2008
The Bill Gates Stanford Speech Covers DreamSpark, Imagine Cup, Innovation, power of software and...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/21/2008
The skinny: Where? https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com What? Loads of dev and design products Visual...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/19/2008
This is a great contest, very similar to this year's theme in the Imagine Cup and the Interface...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/09/2008
I got asked a great question by an Imagine Cup finalist who is doing a Software Engineering project...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/04/2008
Fun game built using Silverlight has just launched on Miniclip.com (a big casual gaming...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/04/2008
It's been a manic few weeks recently trying to get the Imagine Cup Workshops going for the finalists...
Author: markjohnston Date: 02/01/2008
Software Design finalists please upload your entries as a single file (bundle into a ZIP if...
Author: markjohnston Date: 01/30/2008
We ran our first student Live Meeting and had 30 of our student partners from around the UK on, and...
Author: markjohnston Date: 01/24/2008
Mary Jo Foley has blogged about the release today (22nd Jan) of Silverlight 1.0 through Windows...
Author: markjohnston Date: 01/22/2008
Or "my apartment in the middle of Virtual Earth..." Reading now has Bird's eye imagery -...
Author: markjohnston Date: 01/15/2008
It is fantastic what can be done with a video camera and a PC/Mac these days in the...
Author: markjohnston Date: 01/14/2008
I caught this one via JohnMont's blog where the Popfly team demonstrate how to build a Facebook...
Author: markjohnston Date: 01/13/2008