mike | Shared With: Everyone - 5 days ago | news, microsoft, competition, seattle, startups
When and how did Microsoft loose is competitive mojo?
Dick Brass, who tried to develop the Tablet PC, has his take (publishing the in New York Times).
His main culprit - unbridled internal competition. I don't agree with that. I think it has more to do with a lack of investment in small teams.
Micorsoft should model startups and invest in 10-20 person teams and give them 2 years to succeed. Ruthlessly kill the ones that don't - but reward those that do with much more autonomy and local control.
All too often, successful internal entrepreneurs are just made puppet fiefdoms to Windows or Office. These successful leaders need to be given the freedom and opportunity to run their own show.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 20 2009 | news, magazine
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 03 2009 | google, search, news, subscription, pay wall
Google made a *policy* change to their First Click Free program. This is all about Google anti-"cloaking" policy. A web site may not show one thing to Google, and another thing to users. If you do - Google will remove you from their index.
But they have exceptions for subscription/registration sites. They are allowed to put up a pay-wall (subscription/registration requirement) as long as clicks coming from Google referred pages (News and Search) are exempted. As long as your landing page on your site is visible to users with it's full content, you can put up a pay wall on subsequent clicks in your site.
This weeks announcement allows publishers to be a bit more restrictive in their policy. They can now block the 6th and later link from a Google site each day. Google is doing nothing new here - but just changing their allowed policy for publishers implementing First Click Free.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 22 2009 | news
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 17 2009 | google, news, twitter
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 23 2009 | blue dot, faves, blookmarks, newsWow - someone using the "dots" terminology just as we did for Blue Dot in 2005!
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2009 | news, rescuetime, seattle, startups
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 13 2009 | news, google, labs, museum of flight, mof
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 13 2009 | museum of flight, news, google
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 09 2009 | news
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