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Tomorrow's World

By now you will probably have digested the initial information about Google Wave, strategically announced on the same day as Microsoft's Bing search engine last week. Two not quite ready for prime time products - one open source, the other arguably a partially walled garden -...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Yahoo Search Monkey, Channel Management, Wiki, Productivity, Marketing, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-31

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Schmidt resignation: Is Apple search on the way?

Schmidt resignation: Is Apple search on the way?Add to that the fact thatApple could "remotely" remove any competing search engine from the iPhone/iPod, and you have yet another "locked-in" money maker for the company.All highly speculative, with zero evidence...I don't even think mac rumors have surfaced with a search engine...

Tags: SEARCH, Apple Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

How will Microsoft fix Windows Mobile? The Softies still aren't saying

How will Microsoft fix Windows Mobile? The Softies still aren't sayingIt won't slip . . .there's absolutely too much at stake. The mobile marketplace will depend on WM7 being released in a timely fashion. I for one would like to see this pink device come to fruition. There are legions...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Mobile applications, laptop hunter, Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., mobile, WM7, phone, Microsoft Windows, Softies, advertisement, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Yahoo's SearchMonkey, BOSS efforts likely to die on the vine

Microsoft execs say that they may be open to Yahoo search technologies such as SearchMonkey and BOSS Build your Own Search Service. Yahoo acknowledges it has nothing concrete to say about the future of SearchMonkey and BOSS. What's a developer to do? Try walking away. ...

Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., SearchMonkey, BOSS, CNet News, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Ballmer: It's Bing

Ballmer: It's Bing40 years and three generations of ........Violence in a Capitalist society; we're all screwed in the USA. That is the Wikipedia view of this economic down turn. open suggestion!RE: Ballmer: It's BingWow, this is very impressive! I like what I see with Bing and will be using...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing, search engine, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Google and the "stupid name startup" rollercoaster

Google has no doubt revolutionised how we use the Internet. We don't bother typing anything into the address bar anymore, and many of us don't use their favourites/bookmarks as much as they should do. Nowadays, we load up our browser and search for everything we need. Because Google UK is...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Name, Googol, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-22

The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal

The time is now for a Microsoft-Yahoo search dealThe chattering class???"The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo's never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship" ...Why would companies like Microsoft and Yahoo let their business strategies be driven by "the...

Tags: Yahoo Search, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

Web 3.0: Notes from the future

At the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara October 16th and 17th we dived into some fascinating glimpses of the future. Web 3.0 isn’t just a suffix upgrade, rolling over from the increasingly fuzzy buzz around Web 2.0. This conference was an...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Web 3.0, IBM Lotus Notes, Conference, Advertising World, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-19

Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive'

Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive'It takes FIVE handlers for Ballmer?That's some load!:DVista SEMr. Ballmer ruminates on whether Windows 7 is Vista SE:Ballmer was asked why Windows 7 is considered a major release instead of just the second rev of Vista....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Google Apps

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Video: Ballmer's quest to compete with Google

Video: Ballmer's quest to compete with Googlewhat no monkey danceand still he look like a complete idiot .....So, 2 years in, what's the report card like?Their search is languishing and losing marketshare. D-Tried to purchase Yahoo for a distant second. D+Failed to buy Yahoo and saved from self. AFailure to...

Tags: Corporate communications, Steve Ballmer, Google Inc., video

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Gates rules out returning to Microsoft

Gates rules out returning to MicrosoftGet rid of BallmerGates should return, but they need to get rid of Ballmer first. That jumping monkey boy has done more damage than good for Microsoft. I'm not even a big MS fan, but I think Gates is forward-thinking enough to get the right...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters

In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service; Calais 2.0. Calais was originally launched in January of 2008, and there have been two interim releases in...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Web, Team, Drupal, Yahoo! Inc., Web Service, Tom Tague, Marmoset, Tom, Upshot, RDF, Semantic Web, Team Management, Channel Management, Web Services, Internet, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge

In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Poll: Post-Yahoo, what should Microsoft do?

Poll: Post-Yahoo, what should Microsoft do?What to do?It is time for MSFT to begin to produce products that actually satisfy customers, not OEMs.It is time for MSFT to give up the "Let's emulate the other guy" mode.This means no more me-too junk like Vista, Zune, Xnox, WinMobile, Spot or (the...

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

Why Yahoo's ad inventory is so important to Microsoft

Why Yahoo's ad inventory is so important to MicrosoftMoneyand to hell with progress ..... ????RE: Why Yahoo's ad inventory is so important to MicrosoftBecause Microsoft can't figure out how to build an inventory of ads?Or because they can't compete with Yahoo, so they want to either buy them out or...

Tags: Development tools, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Steve Ballmer's defining hour

Steve Ballmer's defining hourHalf hearted approach to world dominationOne real world picture of Bill writing an OS.and you forgot the enterprise CIOthe cash cow that MS has long milked is not happy about product quality, pricing compared to consumer markets, bunch of other areas. And sees little payback from the...

Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Yahoo rolls out the welcome mat to developers; Plots major profile integration

Yahoo took the wraps off of its Open Strategy (Y!OS) on Thursday at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. For Ari Balogh, Yahoo's CTO, the keynote was a coming out party. Dan Farber, on scene at the Web 2.0 Expo, quotes Balogh: "We are taking...

Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Integration, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-24

How would Microsoft Live Mesh mesh with Yahoo's Y! OS?

While it's still premature to be trying to map how Microsoft and Yahoo assets will align if and when Microsoft ends up taking over Yahoo, the Web-services development arena is likely to be one area where the two vendors' offerings look increasingly unlikely to mesh. At the...

Tags: Operating System, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Balogh, Search Monkey, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Asset Management, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Ballmer: It's all about Web developers

Plain old developers are so passe. Now it's all about "Web developers, Web developers, Web developers!" Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at the prodding of an audience member of Mix '08, updated his famous "developers, developers, developers" chant. (Istartedsomething's Long Zheng is hosting a clip...

Tags: Web Developer, Web, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Guy Kawasaki, Plain Old Developer, Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Fox Interactive and Google: Is breaking up hard to do?

Fox Interactive and Google: Is breaking up hard to do?Another possible set up?I think you failed to consider one more scenario. If News Corp. actually does plan to buy Yahoo, why would they want to continue using Google as a search client and ad service provider when they have just...

Tags: Micro$oft, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., News Corp., Fox Interactive Media

Discussion threads 2008-02-25