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May 2007 - Posts
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05:29 PM Thursday, May 31, 2007
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I have been a Red Herring reader since 1993 so it was a real treat to be invited to speak at the upcoming Red Herring conference on Innovation and Opportunity. Red Herring East 2007 will be held at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston, June 26 through Read More...
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10:59 AM Saturday, May 26, 2007
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ComScore released their April 2007 search market share numbers showing that Google increased its market share lead to about 50%. Yahoo has about 27%, Microsoft 10%, AOL 5%, and Ask.com has 5%. That got me thinking. Should AOL and Ask just give up...hopelessly Read More...
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09:53 AM Friday, May 25, 2007
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Microsoft has announced a formal partnership with Facebook . The partnership will enable integration of Facebook’s new platform using Popfly and Visual Studio and further extend the reach of Silverlight applications to Facebook which has 23 million users Read More...
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08:27 AM Friday, May 25, 2007
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The Angel Capital Association is holding its annual meeting in Chicago this week with over 330 angel investors from around the country (USA) representing more than 250 angel groups. Angel investing is big. In fact, angels have invested more dollars in Read More...
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07:12 PM Friday, May 18, 2007
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Microsoft announced Popfly beta release today. Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch loves it. Ryan Stewart , a Rich Internet Applications guru, and Adobe employee, also has nice things to say. Popfly is a free, easy to use tool, to build and share mashups, gadgets, Read More...
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09:43 AM Friday, May 18, 2007
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Jim Buckmaster , CEO of craigslist, did a “fireside chat” interview with BusinessWeek editor Jessi Hempel, at The Nantucket Conference . The conference, and especially this session, was thought provoking. I have interviewed Craig Newmark , founder of Read More...
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09:40 AM Friday, May 18, 2007
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Microsoft today announced the acquisition of aQuantive, an online advertising and marketing company, for approximately $6 Billion in cash. Founded in 1997, aQuantive, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQNT) is primarily known for its three brand names; Atlas and DRIVEpm Read More...
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03:30 PM Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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I am at DealMaker Forum today. We just finished the speed dating sessions with start-ups and I was struck by one common theme. The most common business model is Free Service with an up sell to paid subscriptions. I asked each of them what kind of conversion Read More...
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11:36 AM Thursday, May 10, 2007
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The Seattle Times covered Bill Gates speech at Microsoft's Strategic Account Summit 2007 , a gathering of Microsoft's top global advertising customers. Bill made the case for Microsoft's AdCenter, and predicted hard times ahead for traditional media advertising. Read More...
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02:53 PM Monday, May 07, 2007
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Dell has joined the Novell/Microsoft alliance and has agreed to distribute SUSE Linux on Dell servers. BusinessWeek reported " On Sunday, Microsoft and Novell said Dell has agreed to buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft and that Read More...
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10:45 AM Monday, May 07, 2007
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Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web reports " our poll suggests that most people are indeed impressed by Silverlight. 23% rated it "awesome" and 32% "promising". So over half give it the thumbs up. 25% of respondents rated it "meh", but only 9% said it's Read More...
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09:16 AM Monday, May 07, 2007
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Windows Live Hotmail launched today in 36 languages for its 280 million users. The new Windows Live Hotmail looks very similar to Microsoft Outlook, but it is web based. Windows Live Hotmail has all the expected functions; drag and drop, right click menus, Read More...
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11:56 AM Thursday, May 03, 2007
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Some of the biggest names in Open Source were at Mix07 and participated in a panel discussion " Open Source, the Web, Interoperability and Microsoft ". Pictured left to right: Sam Ramji - Microsoft, Rob Conery - SubSonic, Andi Gutmans - Zend Technologies, Read More...
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09:49 PM Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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Silverlight was announced yesterday at Mix 07. The reactions from press, analysts, and bloggers has been extremely positive. Scoble says "Microsoft rebooted the web". Dan Farber of ZDnet has a great collection of quotes from industry gurus and pundits...all Read More...
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12:33 PM Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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Silverlight was unveiled at Mix07 yesterday. It is truly amazing. Words can't do it justice, but Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch does a great job. You have to see it in action to understand just how good it is. Dan Farber at ZDnet has a great post on the Read More...
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