Archive for February, 2008

Focus, Focus, Focus

Here is a well written article on “focus”… well, that’s the point of it, but it’s about Microsoft’s lack of it.
In many ways I agree with the point of the article, Microsoft is a bit fragmented. While I also think that some of the efforts he describes as tangental, actually work out quite well. [...]


Security vs. Lock-in

I love how Bruce Schneier can make complex security issues so clear and understandable to non-technical folks that don’t have a security background. Security, access to your personal data and privacy of it are VERY important topics currently, but they are very complex to understand.
Here he has a great article on the concept of platform [...]


MS Demos New Advertising “Labs” work

Some news about MS that doesn’t just focus on it’s proposed Yahoo acquisition… 8-)
An overview of some of the new advertising technologies coming out of adCenter labs, many are focused on search, but here are a few others.

Another used speech recognition to make a transcript of a video, then served [...]