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August 2006 - Posts

• 04:24 PM Wednesday, August 30, 2006
  Aug 30 Wed

  Microsoft adCenter is gearing up for full launch

  Microsoft adCenter has been live in the UK for a few weeks. Today the beta for Microsoft ContentAds has opened to selected Microsoft advertisers. I first saw the story on Jennifer Slegg's blog JenSense . TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick followed Read More...
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• 11:51 AM Monday, August 28, 2006
  Aug 28 Mon

  Microsoft's Zune much more than just a music player

  Microsoft's Zune is MUCH more than just an I-Pod like music player...it is a Wi-Fi enabled multi-media player / broadcaster. Toshiba is manufacturing the Zune device. This will be big! Zune owners can act as their own DJ, sending streaming music content Read More...
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• 12:21 AM Monday, August 28, 2006
  Aug 28 Mon

  Microsoft Office and Office Live take on the Web 2.0 competitors

  Om Malik writes " Web Office vs. Microsoft Office ", the market is very crowded with at least 17 web office up-starts, citing a Red Herring article. The Office Alternatives The Old The New Microsoft Word Thinkfree Zoho Writer Writeboard Writely Rallypoint Read More...
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• 09:53 AM Friday, August 25, 2006
  Aug 25 Fri

  Windows Live Search - new beta looks great!

  Microsoft Windows Live Search has announced a new beta site for Image and Video Search . MSN Search has provided Image and Video search for a long time. This new beta site has an improved User Interface, more AJAX sizzle, and new services like a Scratchpad Read More...
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• 10:52 AM Wednesday, August 23, 2006
  Aug 23 Wed

  Microsoft AdCenter wins FaceBook ad deal

  Microsoft's AdCenter beat out Google to be the exclusive provider of ads on FaceBook , the top site for college age people. Recently Google paid $900M to MySpace for the privilege of serving ads to MySpace's teenager audience. Financial details were not Read More...
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• 01:41 PM Monday, August 21, 2006
  Aug 21 Mon

  Small acquisitions have more synergy than larger ones?

  Many times analysts talk about " synergy " and " leverage " that is sure to result from acquisitions. My experience is that small acquisitions (5 to 200 people) do in fact often result in synergy. I can only observe that large acquisitions, $1 billion Read More...
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• 12:19 PM Monday, August 21, 2006
  Aug 21 Mon

  Windows Live - new gadget features, and more coming

  Windows Live is expanding and releasing new products and features every week. A-List blogger Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web has an excellent post on the new Windows Live Contact Gadget. Last week Microsoft Live Writer was released to critical acclaim. Read More...
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• 01:02 PM Thursday, August 17, 2006
  Aug 17 Thu

  Hindsight 2.0, Lessons from a Failed Web 2.0 Startup

  Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan wrote a very interesting blog entitled " Hindsight 2.0. Lessons from a Failed Web 2.0 Startup ". The post is about Kiko, a once highly touted startup building a web 2.0 on line calendar. They had lots of buzz, VC money Read More...
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• 11:04 PM Monday, August 14, 2006
  Aug 14 Mon

  Windows Live Writer for blogs and more

  Windows Live Writer is a new web authoring tool from Microsoft developed by JJ Allaire and his team from Onfolio . You might remember that Microsoft acquired Onfolio in March of this year. I am a Microsoft employee so I get early versions of software Read More...
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• 10:44 PM Monday, August 07, 2006
  Aug 07 Mon

  Software development, delivery, licensing, and business models

  Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post entitled " Open Source: Architecture or Goodwill ". It got me thinking about software development models, delivery models, licensing models, and business models . They are four different things. Open Source can be Read More...
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