Jeff Sandquist was just in my office and he’s wiped cause he and Adam Kinney shipped the Microsoft Gadget site last night.
It’s interesting that there are a TON of blogs about the new Live stuff. Just visit Memeorandum for a good list. Hey, I noticed a lot of you haven’t figured out there are some cool options in Memeorandum (click that “preferences” link in top right!!!)
Tim O’Reilly’s blog about the event got noticed here at Redmond. Why? Cause he said this: “The big takeaway: Microsoft is fully engaged with thinking about what I’ve called “Web 2.0.”” and this: “Overall, leaves me with a lot of optimism that Microsoft is fully engaged with the right problems, and we’ll be hearing a lot more from them.”
Tim is one of the main guys who is pushing the concept of “Web 2.0” so this is interesting that he sees Microsoft as a major player now.
Me?
I keep going back to that list of things I posted this morning. We need to nail those. AND we need to make a killer advertising platform.
Here’s some principles I’m going to be pushing for as this advertising platform gets built out:
1) Share the attention data openly and transparently. Don’t be greedy, make that a key part of, and a differentiator of, our platform. Steve Gillmor’s Attention Trust is getting my attention. If that gets us to think about how to share our attention data, that’ll be huge. If we turn into greedy, evil, bahstahrds with your attention data, then we’ll lose a real opportunity to build something special here. I feel like I’m at Apple Computer back in 1988 or 89 and people were asking Apple to license the OS. In a few years it’ll be too late.
2) Give a clear, consistent, easy-to-understand, business model. I’m still struggling to understand what I’ll get by putting a new Windows Live service on my blog or business site, for instance. Will I get buzz? (That new Virtual Earth gadget looked pretty cool). Or, will I get money like Google’s AdSense pays? I’ll be pushing Gates to fund four “buzz components” for every “monetization component.” This is important to make the advertizing ecosystem work.
Anyway, I really like Niall Kennedy’s photos of the event. It’s going to be interesting to watch Microsoft change over the next few months.
“Share the attention data openly and transparently. Don’t be greedy, make that a key part of, and a differentiator of, our platform.”
Did you forget what company you work for? Not gonna happen. Pipe dream.
“Give a clear, consistent, easy-to-understand, business model.”
Step 2, do step 1 first… Step 2… Step 2? Does anyone at Microsoft get what they are doing or do they think marketing buzz words are enough?
“Share the attention data openly and transparently. Don’t be greedy, make that a key part of, and a differentiator of, our platform.”
Did you forget what company you work for? Not gonna happen. Pipe dream.
“Give a clear, consistent, easy-to-understand, business model.”
Step 2, do step 1 first… Step 2… Step 2? Does anyone at Microsoft get what they are doing or do they think marketing buzz words are enough?
Hahahhaha… the more I see of this “Live” stuff, the more I’m reminded of the “brand-everything” failure of the .NET megaplatform (Office.NET, this.NET, that.NET).
It looks like the MSN guys spun their wheels to produce Yahoo portal version 1.01. The whole thing looks like an amateur job (where’s the QA?) and it doesn’t give a great impression when you try using it in Firefox. SERIOUSLY - WHO SHIPS A WEBSITE WITHOUT FIREFOX SUPPORT THESE DAYS???
So what we’ve learned from the launch:
1. Microsoft *still* doesn’t want to play nicely with others (our browser or get the hell out of here).
2. Microsoft feels like they need to catch up to Google. Unfortunately, the web isn’t Microsoft’s native platform.
Hahahhaha… the more I see of this “Live” stuff, the more I’m reminded of the “brand-everything” failure of the .NET megaplatform (Office.NET, this.NET, that.NET).
It looks like the MSN guys spun their wheels to produce Yahoo portal version 1.01. The whole thing looks like an amateur job (where’s the QA?) and it doesn’t give a great impression when you try using it in Firefox. SERIOUSLY - WHO SHIPS A WEBSITE WITHOUT FIREFOX SUPPORT THESE DAYS???
So what we’ve learned from the launch:
1. Microsoft *still* doesn’t want to play nicely with others (our browser or get the hell out of here).
2. Microsoft feels like they need to catch up to Google. Unfortunately, the web isn’t Microsoft’s native platform.
Congrats Jeff and Adam on the new gadgets site!
It’s a new age of portable objects/containers.
Speaking of portability-
These days we’re surrounded by tiny mobile gadgets which enable us to access to expanded media experiences. Cell phones, iPods - even my memory card for my Xbox - wherever I go I can plug it in, and bring up my player profile, and access my personalized gaming environment.
If the gadgets team is engaged in creating custom user device-driven environments…then I’d encourage them to find ways to make those physically portable. Something that I can take wherever I go, so that I don’t ever have to be separated from my user desktop…
Congrats Jeff and Adam on the new gadgets site!
It’s a new age of portable objects/containers.
Speaking of portability-
These days we’re surrounded by tiny mobile gadgets which enable us to access to expanded media experiences. Cell phones, iPods - even my memory card for my Xbox - wherever I go I can plug it in, and bring up my player profile, and access my personalized gaming environment.
If the gadgets team is engaged in creating custom user device-driven environments…then I’d encourage them to find ways to make those physically portable. Something that I can take wherever I go, so that I don’t ever have to be separated from my user desktop…
BTW - the only reason Scoble is pushing “don’t be greedy with the attention” is that they’re jealous that Google has it all right now. I guess it’s not very transparent.
BTW - the only reason Scoble is pushing “don’t be greedy with the attention” is that they’re jealous that Google has it all right now. I guess it’s not very transparent.
Robert,
http://Www.live.com doesn’t look right on IE6 when you have your font size set to ‘larger’ or ‘largest’: the sidebar overlaps the Mail and Welcome sections. I can understand it not yet working on Firefox or Safari, but at least these kinds of corner cases should be vetted on IE! You should let the team know ASAP since this is not a great way to make a first impression. It just looks sloppy and unprofessional. It doesn’t inspire trust.
Robert,
http://Www.live.com doesn’t look right on IE6 when you have your font size set to ‘larger’ or ‘largest’: the sidebar overlaps the Mail and Welcome sections. I can understand it not yet working on Firefox or Safari, but at least these kinds of corner cases should be vetted on IE! You should let the team know ASAP since this is not a great way to make a first impression. It just looks sloppy and unprofessional. It doesn’t inspire trust.
Microsoft already has 10% of on-line advertising revenue, Hotmail makes money!
When is Microsoft Gadget going to link to my blog? I’ve linked to them a number of times.
Microsoft already has 10% of on-line advertising revenue, Hotmail makes money!
When is Microsoft Gadget going to link to my blog? I’ve linked to them a number of times.
Hahahahah, if it is something Tim likes (and understands)…it’s doomed. Will Tim give us a Live Meme flowharted map?
These bloggy and Web 2.0 creatures will turn out to be Microsoft’s worst enemy. Too many damn influential bloggers with big megaphones, with nose-level views, not getting the bigger CRM/ERP picture. Blogs perhaps make made them more open, but if all this blog and Web 2.0 rot gets in the bloodstream, it will be a vision deathknell. So with Live, anyone gonna apologize to Silverberg then? 😉
Hahahahah, if it is something Tim likes (and understands)…it’s doomed. Will Tim give us a Live Meme flowharted map?
These bloggy and Web 2.0 creatures will turn out to be Microsoft’s worst enemy. Too many damn influential bloggers with big megaphones, with nose-level views, not getting the bigger CRM/ERP picture. Blogs perhaps make made them more open, but if all this blog and Web 2.0 rot gets in the bloodstream, it will be a vision deathknell. So with Live, anyone gonna apologize to Silverberg then? 😉
Please, tell your friends at microsoftgadgets that I cannot create an account to login to their site. I keep receiving the message “Your password does not meet the minimum requirements for this site.”, but it is refering to a field that is an alias, not a password! Maybe they are already aware of this… Why don’t they use Passport?
Please, tell your friends at microsoftgadgets that I cannot create an account to login to their site. I keep receiving the message “Your password does not meet the minimum requirements for this site.”, but it is refering to a field that is an alias, not a password! Maybe they are already aware of this… Why don’t they use Passport?
hmmm, the gadgets site seems to be down already. unreachable right now.
hmmm, the gadgets site seems to be down already. unreachable right now.
“Microsoft Gadget site”
Roberto, OK they copied Apple’s Widgets. Now could you tell them to stop copying the black & gray Apple visual style! Geez!
“Microsoft Gadget site”
Roberto, OK they copied Apple’s Widgets. Now could you tell them to stop copying the black & gray Apple visual style! Geez!
Ditto. Down for me. Hahahha.
Gadgets and Siderbars for Vista, now “Live” somehow, getting up to the OS/2 Warp 4 era functionality. Heh. And another advertizing ecosystem for bloggers and web creatures, just with a Microsoft stamp, Microsoft AdSense. Whooooo. I am giddy. And Office Live, but no wait, not really, it’s NOT a live hosted version, just some web portal wrap around with gadgets, wheeeeeee.
Ditto. Down for me. Hahahha.
Gadgets and Siderbars for Vista, now “Live” somehow, getting up to the OS/2 Warp 4 era functionality. Heh. And another advertizing ecosystem for bloggers and web creatures, just with a Microsoft stamp, Microsoft AdSense. Whooooo. I am giddy. And Office Live, but no wait, not really, it’s NOT a live hosted version, just some web portal wrap around with gadgets, wheeeeeee.