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April 2006 - Posts
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12:42 PM Saturday, April 29, 2006
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Ranking of search results is an art and a science. It is the most closely guarded secret of the major search engine companies. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have teams of people, sworn to secrecy, who focus on this every day. The algorithms typically evaluate Read More...
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04:29 PM Thursday, April 27, 2006
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Facebook is moving into the corporate world with a limited beta of 10 companies . Techcrunch estimates Facebook revenue at $1M per week, or about $50M. MySpace is believed to be in the $200M range for this year. InsideFacebook believes the 10 companies Read More...
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06:45 AM Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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Wallop is a social networking service similar to MySpace and Friendster, originally developed by the Microsoft Research Labs. Om Malik and CNet have stories today about the project and Karl Jacob, the entrepreneur who is bringing Wallop to market. From Read More...
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06:46 AM Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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Microsoft has announced the Windows Live @ edu program http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/apr06/04-21WindowsLiveEDU.mspx for colleges and universities. Hosted email has been around for a long time. Windows Live @edu is different because Read More...
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12:22 PM Sunday, April 23, 2006
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The New York Times has a story today " For MySpace Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit is Tougher " and CNET has a story " YouTube: Too Rough For Advertisers ". Both stories profile the amazing growth and popularity of user generated content sites. MySpace Read More...
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02:25 PM Thursday, April 20, 2006
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Ray Ozzie is in the headlines again with the MicrosoftWatch story , and a long feature story in Fortune / CNN Microsoft's New Brain . I have written about Ray before and many of you know I worked for Ray at Groove Networks, so I am a little biased. Ray Read More...
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08:27 AM Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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News.com reports " Click fraud rate lower than expected " based on a study by Click Forensics. The Click Fraud Index shows that the overall, industry-wide average click fraud rate is 13.7 percent. The click fraud rate at top-tier search engines such as Read More...
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08:25 AM Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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BusinessWeek has a story today " Software as a Service Myths " written by Jeffrey Kaplan of THINKstrategies . The story is very positive on the future of SaaS and debunks some of the myths or knocks against SaaS. I wrote a story on the strategic issues Read More...
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07:41 AM Monday, April 17, 2006
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Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, published a report today State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 . The number of blogs has been consistently doubling every 6 months for the past 3 1/2 years. Today there are 35M blogs compared to 16M just 6 months ago. Given Read More...
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09:53 AM Friday, April 14, 2006
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The BBC reported on a new survey by Jupiter Research which says search users will look at three pages of results (or less) before trying a new query or another search engine. Loyalty is fleeting. The survey found that 41% of users would change search Read More...
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10:40 AM Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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Software as a Service ( SaaS ), Software on Demand, Hosted Solutions...it goes by many names and is a new emerging software business model. The benefits to the buying customer are obvious...rent the software and hosting infrastructure rather than buy Read More...
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10:39 AM Monday, April 10, 2006
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CNet reported today that Red Hat has acquired JBoss for approximately $350M. Open Source software is attracting lots of attention from the big players and VCs. There have been several acquisitions recently and probably a few more to come. There was speculation Read More...
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12:01 PM Friday, April 07, 2006
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Earlier this week I attended the Mass Tech Leadership Annual Investment Conference and the Keiretsu Forum monthly screening meeting. During the course of the day I reviewed the business plans of 27 companies looking for funding. They were looking for Read More...
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08:52 AM Wednesday, April 05, 2006
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The Mass Technology Leadership Council held its Annual Investment Conference yesterday. There were 19 companies presenting, all looking for funding. Later that day the Keiretsu Forum Boston , an angel investor group, held its screening meeting where 8 Read More...
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02:05 PM Monday, April 03, 2006
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I get lots of questions about what is new in the next version of Office, Outlook, Sharepoint, Exchange, and other products. Another frequent question is "how can I get an early beta version?". There is also some confusion about the difference between Read More...
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