Live from Redmond
In Martha Stewart Living the domestic divas flagship magazine became the object of a delicious parody entitled Is Martha Stewart Living The 64page sendup included a look at Marthas glue gun rack and instructions for stenciling highway signs
That parody came to mind as I watched Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie unveil Microsofts new Live platform at a Nov 1 press event in San Francisco The idea behind Live is to get Microsoft back into competition with Google and Yahoo in the area of Web services software that lives on the Internet rather than your computer and runs inside a Web browser...
The Basics of SEO - Some FAQs
Posted Friday November 4
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Search engine optimization is a foreign field to a lot of people Rarely does a day go by when I dont get asked a few questions on the subject So Ive decided to post this article in the hopes that it will help people understand the basics and make them a little more comfortable with the whole domain
Q Why are search engines important to me
A 85 of all website traffic is driven by search engines The only online activity more popular than search is email 792 of users dont go to page 2 of search results 42 of users click on the no1 result...
Bill Gates Memo Aims To Rally Microsoft Around Web Services
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must reshape its businesses to respond to the growing threat from Internetbased software and services Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates warned senior executives in a recent memo
The trend toward Internet services represents a massive and disruptive sea change for the information technology industry and Microsoft must respond quickly Gates wrote in the Oct 30 memo which leaked to the media Tuesday
Analysts say the memo was meant to rally employees around a strategy to take on new competitors such as Google and Salesforcecom...
Microsoft Acquires VOIP Developer
While the eyes of most of the industry were focused on Microsoft Corps belated entry into the softwareasaservice world the company quietly made another move that could prove to be just as important in coming years
Microsoft last week acquired MediaStreamscom a small company based in Zurich Switzerland that develops business applications based on voice over technology Microsoft plans to incorporate MediaStreams technologies into its corporate instant messaging platform Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and its Office productivity tools giving the Redmond Wash...
Yahoo's China operation announces new strategy for search engine
The entrepreneur who runs Yahoo Incs Web portal for China plans a new strategy to promote the site as a search engine saying hes ready to spend heavily in a battle with Chineselanguage search leader Baiducom
Wednesdays announcement by Jack Ma chief executive officer of Alibabacom highlighted the intense rivalry in Chinas market of more than 100 million Internet users
Alibaba took control of Yahoos China sites in a deal in August in which Sunnyvale Califbased Yahoo bought 40 percent of the Chinese company...