Microsoft talks about its new services strategy

I’m watching Ray Ozzie on stage in San Francisco. All Microsoft employees can watch it live. I LOVE our intranet!

Dave Winer is blogging.
So is Dan Farber of ZDNet.
So is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.
So is Todd Bishop of Seattle PI.
Michael Gartenberg gave his analysis.
Richard MacManus gives his analysis.
Niall Kennedy is blogging too.

They are showing off Windows Live. New URL is http://www.live.com . Updated: it doesn’t yet work completely on Firefox or other browsers. They promise more support is coming. Sorry.

http://ideas.live.com and http://microsoftgadgets.com are two other sites that were demoed. Sean Alexander has a brief note about those.

Too cool … NASA app lets you zoom in on moon in 3D

Gary Price continues his run of finding us cool stuff in the search world. Here he links to NASA’s new WorldWind version that lets you zoom around the moon in 3D. Yes, this is a .NET app. Freaking cool.

Trulia, real estate listing winning raves in Silicon Valley

The ScanR folks are raving about Trulia, which is a new Real Estate Search page. Very interesting. A couple of Stanford kids started it.

Speaking of which, in 10 minutes I’ll be in the office where Google, Logitech, and Paypal started their business lives. I’m meeting the current company: Picaboo (they do a peer-to-peer photo sharing application). Are they the next Google, or even Flickr? Well, we’re heading across University Ave. to get a look.

Zvents: interesting events and calendar site

I’m sitting here with the Zvents team. In a house on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley. I love the smell of startups!

They have an interesting site that lets you find things to do. Right now it only works for the San Francisco Bay Area. They also have an interesting Web-based calendar where you can even keep track of your family and friends.

There’s so much to say. Run a lot by tags. Good search engine. Found things like air shows, wine crushing. More later, I’m late for my next meeting. Can they solve that? Heheh.

Homepages combines maps and houses for sale

Gary Price has been finding some cool stuff lately. He links us to HomePages, which is a new service that takes local home sale listings and puts it on an Flash-based map/aerial photo.