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March 2007 - Posts
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11:44 AM Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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Wired Magazine's March 2007 cover story " Get Naked and Rule the World " is an in depth story about blogging at Microsoft and the evolution of Channel 9 , Microsoft's blog site for developers. The headline is a riff on Robert Scoble's book " Naked Conversations Read More...
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06:03 PM Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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Warren Buffett is the most successful investor of all time and the second richest man in the world. Buffett is the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and each year he publishes a letter to shareholders . Thanks to Brad Feld for the pointer to the letter. Read More...
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11:12 AM Monday, March 26, 2007
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Zimbra is extending its on-line email collaboration suite to enable offline use...something Microsoft's Outlook has been able to do for 10 - 15 years. Here is the conundrum; Will the user experience be better for Microsoft Office trying to go on-line, Read More...
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11:52 AM Sunday, March 25, 2007
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Robert Scoble declares newspapers are dead . PaidContent says InfoWorld Magazine is dead . TechMeme has collected lots of blogger stories on the subject. Disrupted maybe...but not dead. Napster disrupted the music business and YouTube is disrupting video. Read More...
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03:54 PM Thursday, March 22, 2007
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The LA Times announced that NBC and News Corp are teaming up to launch a new video service to compete with YouTube. Mark Cuban thinks it is a great idea. Paul Kedrosky is unimpressed. At first I thought this was a dumb idea ...just like when the record Read More...
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08:14 AM Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Microsoft held its 8th annual VC Summit last week. Over 250 VCs from around the world were invited to attend. Steve Ballmer's keynote speech was the highlight of the day as usual. Steve talked about the 21 acquisitions made last year, and the desire to Read More...
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05:33 PM Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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MIX is Microsoft’s conference for Web designers, developers and decision-makers of consumer web applications. MIX is for cutting-edge Web professionals designing and building next-generation experiences. Ray Ozzie , Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Read More...
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09:35 AM Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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Corporate acquisitions make fascinating business case studies. Cisco recently announced an acquisition offer of $3.2 Billion for Web-Ex , a NASDAQ traded company ( WEBX ). For most of the past 12 months Web-Ex has been trading between $35 and $40 per Read More...
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12:05 PM Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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Microsoft announced today the acquisition of TellMe, a hosted speech applications company. Tellme uses voice recognition to radically simplify how people use the phone to get the information they need every day. Founded in 1999, the company powers billions Read More...
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10:21 AM Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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About 75% of the traffic to my blog comes from search engines where users type in random queries. They aren't looking for blogs, they are looking for information. But why do blogs consistently rank very high in any search? Words and Links. The simple Read More...
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11:24 PM Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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The MicroISV Show on Channel 9 team interviewed me earlier this week. The interview covered what we do at Microsoft's Emerging Business Team , how we work with VCs and startups, how Microsoft does acquisitions, the kinds of companies we look for, and Read More...
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08:00 PM Monday, March 05, 2007
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The US Patent Office will make patent applications public on the web and invite anyone to comment on prior art, probably on a wiki or blog. Users will also be able to vote on the best comments, much like Digg works today. This according to The Washington Read More...
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09:59 PM Sunday, March 04, 2007
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USA Today introduced a completely new website complete with lots of social network features like comments, reader rankings, blogs, photos, and better search. Reader reaction? 92% don't like it. I read all 130 comments from readers and they were brutal; Read More...
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07:48 PM Friday, March 02, 2007
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The Guardian reported that Reuters will launch a "Financial MySpace" for its 70,000 subscribers. By coincidence, yesterday I spoke with the Executive VP at Reuters responsible for this project. He is an old friend and he wanted my opinion on some possible Read More...
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11:40 AM Friday, March 02, 2007
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I read lots of blogs and news sites, and am subscribed to many more that I read when I get a chance. I don't have the speed reading talent that Scoble has, so I have found myself focusing on fewer blogs and sites. My new favorite bloggers Scott Maxwell Read More...
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11:42 AM Thursday, March 01, 2007
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Google reports today that click fraud is less than .02% of all ad clicks. Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand has a detailed analysis of the Google claims. I have long suggested that click fraud is lower than most estimates , but these numbers from Google Read More...
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