Anti-Microsofties get into Search Champs

Hey, Brady, what’s up with inviting anti-Microsoft folks into Search Champs? Folks like Ted Leung who is working on the open source Chandler calendaring application. Or Emily Chang?

Oh, I think Emily Chang covers it pretty well on her post (and she has a list of all the Search Champs, darn interesting blog reading there).

I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us (or who are trying to compete with us). There’s more post-search-champs-meeting talk on Memorandum.

Oh, I like Ted and his family a lot. He’s one of the nicest guys I’ve met. Damn smart, too. I wish I could hire him.

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Comments

  1. I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us

    Would that include Gobbels, John and me? :) Or are we just “trolls”? Heh.

  2. I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us

    Would that include Gobbels, John and me? :) Or are we just “trolls”? Heh.

  3. Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.

  4. Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.

  5. “I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us (or who are trying to compete with us).”

    So there’s this new trend of getting inspiration and ideas from the competition? Bwahaha, you mean that the creation of the XBox had nothing to do with the fact that the Playstation was so successful, that IE owes its existence to other things than Netscape, that you’d get into online music without Apple, that the Mac has nothing to do with the history of Windows, that Tim Patterson’s QDOS, which was a CP/M clone itself…, that Word and WordStar…?

    Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

  6. “I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us (or who are trying to compete with us).”

    So there’s this new trend of getting inspiration and ideas from the competition? Bwahaha, you mean that the creation of the XBox had nothing to do with the fact that the Playstation was so successful, that IE owes its existence to other things than Netscape, that you’d get into online music without Apple, that the Mac has nothing to do with the history of Windows, that Tim Patterson’s QDOS, which was a CP/M clone itself…, that Word and WordStar…?

    Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

  7. Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

    Well pointing out the obvious (sadly) does no good, but get into the blogger psychology and everything is easily understood. As, well, bloggers have extremely short-attention spans. When they see it, when it comes on their radar, and impacts them and their digitial lifestyles, only then is it a new thing. The sense of history is but lost.

  8. Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

    Well pointing out the obvious (sadly) does no good, but get into the blogger psychology and everything is easily understood. As, well, bloggers have extremely short-attention spans. When they see it, when it comes on their radar, and impacts them and their digitial lifestyles, only then is it a new thing. The sense of history is but lost.

  9. […] We had a ton of great people at searchchamps and in my opinion the more mac users, the more google users the better. Those are people who don’t use our products and they have great reasons. What are they? We want to learn them. We want them to let us know why and explain it to the other attendees. I want to hear two of our champs (and yes we are working on a better name explain to each other why they would and would not use something that we are showing them. We don’t want to waste our time getting pats on the back. We want the search champs to give us course corrections and tell us plainly what we are doing wrong or right. Thanks to Robert, Fred, Emily, Ted and everyone else for coming and letting us know what you think. […]

  10. Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.

  11. Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.