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Is Investing in Facebook Worth it to Microsoft Just to Get International Remnant Inventory?
"So if you're Microsoft, and your search business isn't generating much European inventory or European advertiser interest for AdCenter, a deal like this gives you a much better story to tell."
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"Microsoft owning a shell called Bungie with all the talent gone isn't a recipe for success (looked what happened when the Palm leadership asked to be spun off from 3Com and the events that followed)."
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Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
"Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it could be if it ever becomes widely popular."
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Industry Note: Fading to Irrelevance - Joost vs and Microsoft
"Joost can't build a radically more efficient, productive, or useful value chain - because it's too busy simply rebuilding the same old lame mass media value chain, just made a tiny bit more efficient via p2p distribution."
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Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
"Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays."
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"The future is here and it's not an iPhone . . . it's a big ass table."
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel
"A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference."
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not funny haha, just like, funny on the inside. LOTI.
A fairly amusing video from Microsoft that features a restaurant conversation between 'advertiser' and 'consumer.' Like Amber said, not funny on the outside, but rather disturbing you're laughing on the inside.
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"Ozzie has made it clear that Microsoft is thinking extensively about 1) the value and utility of attention data, 2) the fundamental role it will play in a web services world, and 3) the importance of user control."
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Robert Scoble answers readers questions on lots of topics.
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Apple Deja Vue: will they pull it off this time?
"Apple's “closed architectureâ€?â€â€or integrated software/hardware/service appliance approachâ€â€may have been premature when Apple launched the Mac in 1984, but makes perfect sense today."
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"The new browser includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically set up to send users to Microsoft's MSN search service. Google contends that this puts Microsoft in a position to unfairly grab Web traffic and advertising dollars . . . "
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"Boot Camp gives switchers a comfortable out if they wind up not liking or in any way regretting their switch to Mac OS X: they can use their Mac as a bona fide first-class Windows box."
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Microsoft iPod packaging parody
What if microsoft redesigned the ipod packaging?
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Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo
Leaked copies of both emails detailing the changes Microsoft must make to keep up with the "OO"ses
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How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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Read/Write Web: "My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world"
"And what about previously unsupported CSS2 properties? Have we got :hover support on any element other than a yet? Sorry. What about selectors? Same as ever. Could we at least ask for a bit of position: fixed? Keep wishing."
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Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer
"By careful structure planning, I managed to stripe down all hackery to a much less additional rules."
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Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
"Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out."
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Gates: Tech must tackle information overload
Mercury News: "Nobody's paid to do search or just find information. At the end of the day you're paid for designing a new product, having a satisfied customer and doing that with the minimum amount of time, the minimum amount of people.''
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The assault on software giant Microsoft
The next two years will be crucial for software giant Microsoft. Under attack on numerous fronts, it could falter - or fight back to become even more dominant.
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Operating Systems and Recent History
Dan Gillmor: "With Tiger, Apple is plainly in the lead today. The built-in search function is getting rave reviews, among other performance boosts that keep the Mac ahead on ease of use."
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Will the Next Version of Windows Be Worth the Wait?
NYTimes: "Michael Cherry, a senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a consulting firm based in Kirkland, Wash., observes that many PC users now treat their computers like TV sets. "Unless the TV doesn't turn on," he says, "they won't replace them.""
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My new stance on linking technologies, six guidelines to judge
Scoble steps back from his anti-AutoLink stance and gives some guidelines to tell whether an automatic linking technology is really pro-user
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An Open Conversation with Robert Scoble Microsoft Geek Blogger
WebProNews: "In a 38-minute conversation, we discussed a wide range of topics, including evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book proje
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Microsoft's new RSS aggregator
A parent's primer to computer slang
Lots of great tips on understand what your children mean when they write "1337"
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From the Economist: Does Robert Scoble, a celebrity blogger on Microsoft's payroll, herald the death of traditional public relations?
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Phishers can now display a fake web address in IE
Add this to the list of reasons to switch to Firefox
The Most Important Man in Advertising?
Robert Scoble is doing amazing things for Microsoft
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'Halo 2' clears record $125 million in first day
Microsoft beat even its own heady expectations for the hotly anticipated Xbox game "Halo 2," selling more than $125 million of the product its first day in stores.
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In search of a browser that banishes clutter
People are moving away from internet explorer
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Early adopters are not using IE