It’s been a little quiet on the site as of late. A hectic week with SafehouseSAM.comÂ? followed by a weekend in Merritt, and now it’s back to business. There has been a lot of thigns going on in the background with the site in the last few weeks. We’re just about to roll out our makeover, there’s the Canadian Tech MobÂ? that has emerged that we will look at joining with the makeover, a partnership with nPost.com, and some new blogs to talk about.

The makeover is long overdue. The original design was never actually fully implemented, and rather than continuing down that path, Silent Rob strong-armed me into a new design by just doing it. When we roll out the new look, we will look at adding the site to the Canadian Tech Mob’s loop. The Canadian Tech Mob was created by Sean Wise and Reg Cheramy. Through this encounter, we’ve been asked to do a guest post on Reg’s website, Web2.0Central.com, and we also stumbled upon another Canadian Web2.0 guy, Mark Evans, and his blog MapleLeaf 2.0.

We first talked about nPost.com after we went to the RedFin/TechCrunch Seattle mixer. We went to an nPost.com networking event in June, talked to Nathan KaiserÂ? a little more about those types of events, and shortly thereafter, made arrangements to partner up to host the event. For more information about the event, please see the nPost list of events. We will be releasing full information about the event by the end ofÂ? this week.

With the release of Private Folder 1.0, Microsoft starts to make it easier to question whether or not they really do understand the Digital Era. Private Folder 1.0 is free software that lets a person store sensitive data on their home or work computers in a password-protected folder. This is just an example of the software giant ignoring the trend towards the Internet.

A lot of the news surrounding Microsoft has suggested that the company was making an aggressive move to solidify itself as an Internet company as much as it is a Software company. The release of Live.com and the related, Internet-based components is a perfect example of steps in the right direction. So why would the company take a step back with this downloadable, installed software to keep information private? This could have and should have been an initiative integrated into their Live platform and acted as one of next steps the company takes towards integrating the PC experience with the web.

With the obvious market share in OS software, Microsoft must start harnessing that potential userbase and building on their core software business with Internet-based services that work on top of Windows. There are already complaints about the release and its impact on IT Administrators, something that would have been avoided with an Internet-based product, and any time users need to install software there is the potential for headaches.

The general idea is useful, but the implementation is just too 1990’s.