Social information processing

It’s December 5 – your holiday shopping is done, right? No? The Internet Explorer team is here to help.

Whenever I get a chance to show off Windows Phone to a friend, I usually start with speech recognition. It’s always a crowd pleaser, and it’s only gotten better in Windows Phone 7.5, which lets you compose, listen to, and send text messages with your voice.

The big day is finally here! As Eric noted this morning, we’re officially rolling out Windows Phone 7.5 (which many of you know better as Mango) worldwide through our mobile operator partners. While many of 7.5’s killer new features like Bing Vision, Threads, Groups and the new IE9 have been on display for a while, there are a few secrets we’ve kept under wraps. Today I’ll walk you through them.

I have to admit that I can be a bit of a thrill seeker but there is no way I’m letting my nieces and nephews take chances with their online safety. That’s one of the reasons we reached out to blogger and mom Monica Villa of The Online Mom to share her tips, tricks and suggestions for keeping kids safe online.

Are you headed to the beach this summer, on vacation or just working flat out to pay for college? If so, staying in touch with your friends probably seems complicated. While you can use Facebook for sharing information, there are lot of things you might not want your mom, your grandma or the girl you babysat for in sixth grade to know all the details about. If that’s the case, consider these 4 ways to stay in touch on summer break.

We received a fantastic round of entries for last week’s contest to win sponsorship to the Mom 2.0 Summit in New Orleans (original contest post here), April 14-16. Several great bloggers posted rich “how to” content on Windows 7 and Windows Live, which made judging this contest extremely difficult.

Calling all Mom Bloggers: this is your chance to win a conference pass, plus travel and expenses to one of the top female blog conferences of 2011! Windows is proud to be working with such a fine community of influential moms and to show our appreciation we’re providing sponsorship for one lucky winner to attend the Mom 2.0 Summit in New Orleans, April 14-16. If you’re a mom who blogs then you’re likely looking at ways to build your business and online profile. Mom 2.0 is a great opportunity to network, share best practices and develop a stronger social presence.

We’ve previously covered our philosophy of putting sites at the center. This starts with the point of view that users go to their browser to visit sites, not for the browser itself. The browser should give sites the tools to build more engaging user experiences without getting in the way.

We’re excited to announce today that Facebook chat is now available to over 75 million more Messenger customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available.

The Windows Experience Blog is your one-stop-shop to get the inside scoop on what’s new, what’s cool, and what you absolutely can’t miss at CES 2011. 

For the entire duration of the show I’ll be on the exhibit floor (or in our partner suites) filming videos with our hardware partners that will give you a behind the scenes look at the “how” and “why” on their products and lots of hands on time with new gear.  Videos will be fast and furious – I’m shooting, editing and posting more than 10 videos in 3 days!