Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Taking a few days off
I’m heading to Scottsdale today with DeAnna to take a few days off. Probably just spend some time at the pool, go horseback riding and go out shopping and to some nice restaurants. Been traveling alot lately, so it will be good to have some slow time before the last big push of the quarter…
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I only have one question
When can I get one: Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation film It was a gadgetfest at the PSR today at Microsoft. At lunch they had the Surface out for everyone to play with. It was one of those demos that you just tell that the gadget is going to change everything, but have no idea how.…
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Maybe MS is on to Something by investing in Facebook
Making your competitor’s competitor stronger is always a good strategy Social Networking wars: Facebook v. Google – Oct. 16, 2007 What amazes me is the rapid cycle acceleration going on. MS was a leader for more than 20 years… Google has been in the spotlight for less than 8.
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Random thoughts from Microsoft PSR
.!. Daredevil dvd For a MS conference, there sure are lots of MacBooks here. And not all of them are running Parallels or BootCamp! PowerShell – I must not be enough of a geek to get excited about a new shell Software + Services is exactly the right message. And exchange is an example that fell into…
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Got my tablet back – now with Vista!
Well as you can probably tell, I got my tablet (TC 4400) working again. I forgot how much I like the inking experience. Went ahead and put Vista on it and so far ft’s great on the tablet.
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Scoble sticks up for older facebook users
My facebook experiment is about 6 weeks old. One of the first things did was join a few networks. Since my UGS email address was still active I was able to get into that network (which currently has about 120 members). I had also just received my siemens.com email address so I joined that network…
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Interesting analysis of Facebook application distribution
Found this on boing boing a few days ago and just forgot to blog about it then. This is an interesting analysis of what facebook apps get used the most. I’m not sure why the result (think long tail) are all that surprising. In the end this is just a validation that Facebook has…
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Top line growth no longer the top issue for CEOs
While it didn’t slip out of first place by much (a few percentage points), top line growth is no longer the top concern of global CEOs. What has replaced it? Execution Excellence. In my view this is just a maturing of understanding the issue and says that CEOs have a better understanding of what specific…
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It was only a matter of time – Google partners to get into virtual worlds
All I can say is..I told you so… Google tools to power virtual worlds | CNET News.com Buried Alive film Hopefully this will be one of the cases where the entry of an established net player like Google will validate the space and cause all boats to rise. The vast amount of data in google…