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Horses, Roads and Online Video Infrastructure

During my first drive into Boston many years ago, it didn’t take me long to get hopelessly lost. I later learned that the labyrinthine road system was not in fact an elaborate trap for hapless outsiders, but owed its legacy to a time when horses were...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 1:13 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: video delivery, video distribution, p2p video, content distribution network

Where Are They Now—Skinkers Revisited

Skinkers NEW YORK, NY http://www.skinkers.com Company Pilots Interactive Live TV on Your PC, Enterprise Product Used on World’s Leading Brands, and Wins UK Technology Innovation and Growth 2008 Awards For communication you can’t miss...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2008 5:23 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Nuconomy Announces Integration with Kampyle

Yesterday, Kampyle announced that is has integrated its feedback management platform into both Google Analytics and Nuconomy . I’ve been working with Nuconomy for a while and want to congratulate them on their continued push to create a ton of value...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2008 1:18 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Update: A study of Exchange 2007 SP1 Hub throughput with different message sizes

Background This is a follow up to my recent post: A study of Exchange 2007 SP1 Hub throughput with different message sizes . Please refer to this post for full background information and test details . I promised in that post that I would add results...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 2:44 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Innovation Pace in Web 2.0 Monetization Seems Healthy to Me

SiliconAlley.com carries a story today by Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury News, complaining broadly about the “laziness” among web 2.0 startups toward innovating new forms of monetization for applications that the public seems...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 2:01 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

PHP on Windows Server 2008

I stumbled upon this article that I thought developers running PHP based web sites may be interested in. The authors write: A significant percentage of web sites utilize PHP as a platform for dynamic content. During the development of Windows 2008, Microsoft...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 1:29 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Startup, oss, php, website

Announcing support for the Apache Software Foundation

Today at OSCON , Sam Ramji announced that Microsoft will become an official sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF provides support for the Apache community of open source projects. There are over 60 top-level projects at the ASF that...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 11:50 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Open Source, asf

Partnering with Microsoft - What you need to know

Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference was held last week in Houston. If you didn't attend you can see videos of sessions here . There were over 10,000 people at the WPC this year. Microsoft loves partners, and over 90% of Microsoft's revenues...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2008 12:03 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Partnering, Why Microsoft?

Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group - 7/30

Please join us next Wednesday July 30th, 4-7PM PST for the next meeting of the UCDoers - Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group meeting ! The UCDoers will meet at the McKinstry Company located at: 5005 Third Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 7:29 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Community

Me.dium social browsing and social search

Me.dium is a web browser plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer that turns web browsing into a social experience. It gives you a personalized map of the Internet showing where you are, and what web sites your friends are visiting in real time....

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 5:13 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Why Microsoft?, Me.dium, MIX08, Technology Startups, David Mandell

Where does the time go? -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd

Enterprise Communications Support (formerly known as Exchange Messaging Support) has recently seen an increase in support incidents around the -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd issue. In this blog I will explain this issue in detail, why it may occur, how to...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 4:28 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Fishing on LinkedIn

Won’t it be neat to know which customers your competitors are calling on? Or perhaps the number of salespersons they have in a particular geography? How about the technical details of that “top secret” product they’re developing? You would think that...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 12:12 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Security, compliance, linkedin

Upcoming conferences with plenty of SharePoint oriented content

Hosted by MindSharp (one of the premier SharePoint training partners), sponsored by Microsoft Press (which recently published the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices book), and keynoted by Tom Rizzo (who needs no further introduction...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 4:49 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: Technical Readiness, Conferences

The Startup Meme - Phase 1, The Prototype

I’ve worked with several funded and non-funded startups during my time here at Microsoft. Having seen what works and doesn’t, I thought I’d throw together a series of posts on how to startup a software company. First and foremost, you need to have an...

Published Mon, Jul 21 2008 11:01 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Startup, development tools, startup lifecycle

The 7 deadly sins and 10 lessons of a failed startup

Failure is part of the maturing process in the startup world. If you haven't failed...you aren't trying hard enough, or you aren't "pushing the envelope" far enough. I have always said " Success is a terrible teacher....

Published Sat, Jul 19 2008 12:12 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

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