Microsoft is Serious About Blogging

By leelefever on September 29, 2005 - 9:10am.

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Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with the folks at Microsoft, like Bill Reid, Korby Parnell and Jonathan Grudin, to learn more about blogging at Microsoft for a related project at the company. Here are some of my broad observations:

Microsoft Blog Project

By leelefever on September 1, 2005 - 8:41am.

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I’m just starting a new project that should be really interesting. I’m working with Bill Reid’s group at Microsoft, which does IT Solutions. Like so many other teams at the company, they are interested in using blogs as a way to support and connect more personally with customers.

Microsoft and Sun- Together at Last

By leelefever on April 2, 2004 - 11:33am.

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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems Enter Broad Cooperation Agreement; Settle Outstanding Litigation

Am I in some kind of time warp? Is it April Fools day again? This is a pretty amazing announcement.

Via: Scoble

NetScan's Graphical Analysis of Newsgroups

By leelefever on November 11, 2003 - 11:18am.

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A while back I wrote about Marc Smith, Sociologist at Microsoft Research who is studying Usenet Newsgroups. I met and saw a presentation by Marc recently and I've been keeping up with NetScan- the tool they use to analyze newsgroups. I've been impressed with some of the ways they are graphically representing the growth and activity of the newsgroups over time. The screenshot below came from this TreeMap.

Bill Gates Says Email Not Dead.

By leelefever on October 16, 2003 - 4:36pm.

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Informatics: Gates foretells death of spam

Ok, he didn't say those exact words, but he's a believer that technology will eventually beat spammers. He recently spoke at ITU Telecom World 2003 in Geneva.

He called on anonymity to be removed from internet protocols like SMTP, because it allows spammers to mimic other users, and suggested that passwords could be replaced by smart cards and biometric technologies.

"We have to know who is accessing the network. By being able to identify who the sender is we will be able to make the spam problem essentially go away," he said.

Let's hope he's right.

WebEx vs. Microsoft

By leelefever on September 18, 2003 - 8:51am.

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Tech Biz: Microsoft's next target: WebEx - Sep. 17, 2003

It will be really interesting to watch the competition between Microsoft- who has just release "Live Event" and WebEx. Live Event is basically a repackaged version of Placeware, which was WebEx's biggest competition. Both of these are Web Conferencing platforms.

about Web Conferencing: