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Podcast highlight: Microsoft to Google: Match this!
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Microsoft to Google: Match this!
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If you had billions to spend and wanted to knock Google back into the Stone Age, what would the strategy look like? Find out by listening to CNET News.com reporter Ina Fried, who is in Seattle this week to report on Microsoft's ambitious plans to regain the initiative from its Internet rival.
Also, reporter Tom Krazit has the scoop from the World Congress on Information Technology conference in Austin, Texas, where tech delegates from 80 different nations have assembled to vote on a tech agenda for '06 and beyond. And don't miss the cyber food fight royale between Michigan history professor Juan Cole and bad-boy essayist Christopher Hitchens, as well as the rest of the day's news, in the CNET News.com daily podcast.
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I think it is good for Microsoft that they are willing to use this kind of money on Web 2.0/Internet Applications, but i can't help thinking about this:
A) What does the customers want?
B) When google (offcourse) is going to match Microsoft - will any of them be innovative ? or just another "rip-of" of idears allready online - eg.
Look at these..
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.live.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.live.com</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.google.com/ig" target="_newWindow">http://www.google.com/ig</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.pageflakes.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.pageflakes.com</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.netvibes.com/" target="_newWindow">http://www.netvibes.com/</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.protopage.com/v2" target="_newWindow">http://www.protopage.com/v2</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.itsastart.com/" target="_newWindow">http://www.itsastart.com/</a>
.. and with less than 10 mins. of code search.. <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://appstorage.orcaa.com/vikiportal2" target="_newWindow">http://appstorage.orcaa.com/vikiportal2</a> can do the somewhat the same. - were is the "new" stuff everyone is looking for.
If you want to see innovation that kicks a.., maby somwthing like our Orca@desktop (www.orcaa.com) - and we are not alone - Maby Microsoft og Google should invest some money there, insted of reinventing everything.
Kind Regards
Leon Bollerup
CEO, 4th. Corner
Denmark
C) Will it be online "to late" ?
I think it is good for Microsoft that they are willing to use this kind of money on Web 2.0/Internet Applications, but i can't help thinking about this:
A) What does the customers want?
B) When google (offcourse) is going to match Microsoft - will any of them be innovative ? or just another "rip-of" of idears allready online - eg.
Look at these..
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.live.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.live.com</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.google.com/ig" target="_newWindow">http://www.google.com/ig</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.pageflakes.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.pageflakes.com</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.netvibes.com/" target="_newWindow">http://www.netvibes.com/</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.protopage.com/v2" target="_newWindow">http://www.protopage.com/v2</a>
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.itsastart.com/" target="_newWindow">http://www.itsastart.com/</a>
.. and with less than 10 mins. of code search.. <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://appstorage.orcaa.com/vikiportal2" target="_newWindow">http://appstorage.orcaa.com/vikiportal2</a> can do the somewhat the same. - were is the "new" stuff everyone is looking for.
If you want to see innovation that kicks a.., maby somwthing like our Orca@desktop (www.orcaa.com) - and we are not alone - Maby Microsoft og Google should invest some money there, insted of reinventing everything.
Kind Regards
Leon Bollerup
CEO, 4th. Corner
Denmark