Dare Obasanjo, who works on the backend team at MSN, says I just rediscovered Hailstorm (which was Microsoft’s doomed effort to host your data on its servers). Hmmm, I didn’t remember Hailstorm being aimed at end users. I also didn’t remember that Microsoft tried to take people slowly into that world. They wanted them to jump [...]
Hey, .NET’ers VistaDB is giving bloggers a copy of VistaDB for free ($229 value). That’s smart.
I like how Steve calls me the “attention bunny” in response to my post last night. Here’s just a small tease of his lengthy reply: “Could it be that Microsoft is paying attention? On Tuesday, Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie will likely shake up the industry with details of their rapid move toward the attention [...]
Hmmm, WordPress.com only lets me display a certain number of items on the home page. Well, tonight I’ve been a bit prolific. So, a bit of stuff (including a lengthy essay on attention that I hope Microsofties are reading) is on the second page. I know from usability studies that most people won’t go to a [...]
Congrats to these teams. This is several years in the making. Thousands of people are working on these products/tools/platforms. Ayman Shoukry has the links.
Publish Magazine has an interesting interview with Naked Conversations co-author, Shel Israel.
