It’s going to be a long weekend… With the help of my good friend Keith Crawford, I plan on reformatting my primary development machine today and doing a clean install of Windows 7. This project is long overdue, I can’t remember the last time I reformatted my drive, in fact this SATA drive that I […]
How Bing Will Rank Your Tweets
I blogged a few days ago about Microsoft Bing and Google’s announcement that they were both going to start incorporating our Tweets into their search results. There has been a lot of speculation as to how these Tweets are gong to show up in their search results. I have been following all of this pretty […]
Microsoft Social Bookmarks
Looks like Microsoft is going to launch a social bookmark service that is very similar to delicious in the next few weeks. From what I have gathered it is going to operate very similarly to delicious but will have some features and similarities to other popular social bookmarking services as well. I am an avid […]
AOL to Yahoo? Microsoft?
In a move that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Time Warner is poised to sell off AOL in separate pieces and will reportedly separate its advertising and content platforms with its dial-up business to get the most out of the poor sucker that acquires it. According […]
Microsoft makes $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo
I have been kind of expecting this one to play out for a while now and I’m not real surprised. (Microsoft stock should be rock bottom by now but it’s not, and I am shocked by that.) The search engines wars have all but been over for years now, with Yahoo being a distant second […]
Microsoft Cuts Another Open Source Deal
Another story where Microsoft is embracing Commercial Open Source software. This is related to XANDROS an open sourced desktop OS that is becoming more and more popular, my business partner is currently running it and has had nothing but good things to say about it so far. I have researched it as an option for my development […]