Webinar Series: TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning

TECH 101 – Mashups For Planning
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Taking Wolfram|Alpha on an Alpha Run

Wolfram|Alpha is an Answer Engine for the scientifically-minded, as opposed to a Search Engine: It takes your query, implied or otherwise, that critical step further by selecting from its list of matches, the one objective description, image etc, and lays them out in context. Not that Google never attempts definitive answers [chord], but when it does, . . . → Read More: Taking Wolfram|Alpha on an Alpha Run

A Touch of Play

First impressions after testing Microsoft’s Surface Table:

It is a coffee-table sized hardware running Windows Vista and allowing collaborative interaction from up to 4-6 participants. The number of hand-gestures it can recognize is obviously higher than that of a standard touch-screen which can typically handle only a single tap and drag, and maybe multi-touch. On the other . . . → Read More: A Touch of Play

Follow Up [1]: Never the Twain Shall Meet

• What if Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
• If Microsoft packaged the iPod…

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• Never the Twain . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Never the Twain Shall Meet

Follow Up [1]: Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged

“Building a Better Boom

… The Internet is exciting again, and once again folks are rushing in. In some categories – like search or social networking, for example – there are scores of start-ups vying for pretty much the same market, and it’s certain that, just like last time, most of them will fail.

But regardless of all . . . → Read More: Follow Up [1]: Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged

Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged: Internet Software Services

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 9:56 PM
To: Executive Staff and Direct Reports; Distinguished Engineers
Subject: Internet Software Services

“… Ten years ago this December, I wrote a memo entitled The Internet Tidal Wave which described how the internet was going to forever change the landscape of computing… Five years ago we focused our strategy on .NET . . . → Read More: Memorandum Excerpt, Alleged: Internet Software Services

Never the Twain Shall Meet

On the eve of the launch of Virtual Earth, as Microsoft plays catch-up with Google‘s high-rate of innovation, here’s a transcript of some tete-a-tete:

[Sometime before 2000]
Bill Gates: Now that we are in the email business with Hotmail, we need to think of ways to fatten the bottom-line.
Steve Ballmer: Online marketing is the way to go Bill! . . . → Read More: Never the Twain Shall Meet