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Goldman Sachs Internet Conference, Part 2 – Is the Internet really this Boring?

Interleaved between the company presentations which comprised 90% of the Goldman Sachs Internet Conference were several panels and data presentations, including a presentation of Goldman’s latest survey among a broad sample weighted to reflect...

Published 05-30-2008 11:16 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: Edward Tufte

Writing the post on acquisitions in the softwae/Web industry -- and how several Web sites and blogs display that information - make me think about the power of the visual display of information. I remember discovering Edward Tufte's book, The Visual...

Published 05-30-2008 2:47 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Tracking Web & Technology Acquisitions

I recently found a neat blog on the technology acquisitions for 2007 . Steve Nielsen of Partner Up combed many sources to compile this comprehensive list, complete with blog, media and press coverage. Steve's Q1 2008 list is here. This list includes...

Published 05-30-2008 1:58 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Acquisitions

Google I/O and the Luxury of the Black Swan

In yesterday’s post on “The Great Inventory Split,” I talked about the very real and growing bifurcation between vast amounts of low-quality, low value content and focused pools of high-quality, high-value content available to online...

Published 05-29-2008 12:49 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

First Day of Google I/O -- Does anyone know what I/O stands for?

The Google I/O two-day conference started Wednesay May 28th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (I was going to say today but realized it's 2AM PST now). This developer focused conference was first branded Google Developer Day last year in San...

Published 05-29-2008 3:59 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Android, AppEngine, Steve Horowitz, Vic Gundotra, Google I/O, Cloud Services

Jajah makes it easy to phone home

Jajah, a Microsoft Startup Accelerator company has been super busy lately with some really cool deals that place it where the users are. First off, last month, Jajah announced that it will provide voice services for Yahoo Messenger users (a total of 97million...

Published 05-29-2008 2:14 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: VoIP, Jajah, Skype, yahoo

Goldman Sachs Internet Conference, Part 1 – The Great Inventory Split

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Ninth Annual Goldman Sachs Global Internet Conference in Las Vegas. Part road-show, part long-view, the conference offered a different perspective on the Internet space than that usually provided at Silicon...

Published 05-28-2008 3:51 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Troubleshooting top Exchange 2007 SP1 SCR issues

This blog post discusses several top issues seen to date by the Microsoft Exchange Product Support Team regarding the Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. We wanted to share this information as it can...

Published 05-28-2008 12:12 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Clustering

In Search of an Online Eraser

It’s been nearly 10 years since Scott McNealy famously admonished a bunch of reporters: “You have zero privacy. Get over it!” Nowhere has this statement been driven home harder for me than the few minutes I spent on pipl and ZabaSearch , free websites...

Published 05-28-2008 1:58 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Security, Windows Live, online identity, privacy, pipl, zabasearch

How We Did It - Australia National Native Title Tribunal website - advanced web content management

Overview The National Native Title Tribunal of Australia assists people to resolve native title issues over land and waters. Set up under the Native Title Act 1993, the Tribunal is an Australian Commonwealth Government agency and is part of the Attorney...

Published 05-27-2008 12:53 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: WCM, Customer Evidence, Content types, Integration

Web 2.0 = Bubble 2.0?

At TiECON East , Friday, May 30th Fred Wilson and I will be debating " Web 2.0: Viable Business Model or Bursting Bubble?". David Cancel (Lookery) will be moderating, and we will be joined by Brian Balfour (Viximo) and Nabeel Hyatt (Conduit...

Published 05-27-2008 12:15 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

How Startups Fail: Part Four

Part Four of a Four Part Series: The Four Syndromes of Startup Failure. In his keynote to several budding entrepreneurs, Eric Benhamou, Chairman of 3Com, former Chairman and CEO of Palm, made some observations about how startups fail. Numero Quatre: The...

Published 05-23-2008 1:14 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: startup board, startup failure, startup failure syndrome, market vs. marketing

Version Store issues revisited - Event ID 623 at Information Store service startup

Recently we've seen some cases in Exchange Support where the error event 623 gets generated immediately at the start of the Information Store service . So far we've only witnessed this on some Exchange 2003 Servers. Please note that this...

Published 05-23-2008 1:05 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks

How Startups Fail - Part Three

Part Three of a Four Part Series: The Four Syndromes of Startup Failure. In his keynote to several budding entrepreneurs, Eric Benhamou, Chairman of 3Com, former Chairman and CEO of Palm, made some observations about how startups fail. Numero Trois: Poor...

Published 05-23-2008 12:56 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: startup board, startup failure, CEO support group, operational execution, advisory board

How Startups Fail - Part Two

Part Two of a Four Part Series: The Four Syndromes of Startup Failure. In his keynote to several budding entrepreneurs, Eric Benhamou, Chairman of 3Com, former Chairman and CEO of Palm, made some observations about how startups fail. Numero Deux: Rising...

Published 05-22-2008 5:18 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: startup failure, startup recruiting challenge, startup recruiting, virtual bench

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