Defending Microsoft’s Live.com
Joel Spolsky gives us hell for Live.com. Tags us with "Marimba effect." I don't think it was clear. This was the beginning…
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Joel Spolsky gives us hell for Live.com. Tags us with "Marimba effect." I don't think it was clear. This was the beginning…
It's not a pre-season NCAA basketball exhibition matchup, but a case where the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused an Estonian financial firm of spidering confidential Business Wire information and profiting on trades.
With a lot of multimedia content floating around in newsgroups, one company decided the best way to find it would be via a web browser.
Thankfully it's John Dvorak playing connect the dots with the Internet's past and Google's present and future, because the points are hard to argue. When Bill Gates recently said Google was most like Microsoft, more than any other competitor, he may have been making a more subtle statement than most people realized.
Oh, Dave, I couldn't say "clone the Google API" in public! But you did. So I'll riff on it. I agree with it. I'll even repeat it.
Buckling under the weight of chronic corporate restructuring, and frustrated by performers who don't respond to carefully crafted strategic plans, high level executive leaders are being confronted by a growing performance gap between what needs to get done and what gets done.