things I read yesterday … 05/19/2008
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Microsoft on Yahoo: Internal Memo From Kevin Johnson | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
I read this internal email from Microsoft, and it reads as lunacy. These three statements are simple to write, yet so far from reality.
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- Innovate and disrupt in search – We will disclose some elements of our plans with this week’s release of search and sharpen our focus on user experience and business model innovation. The work we have done over the last 4 years on search has established a solid foundation to build upon.
- Win targeted distribution – With this release of search, we are now ready to throttle up broader distribution initiatives.
- Reinvent portal and deliver new experiences across PC, phone and web
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Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
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4. Their UI sucks and is brilliant at the same time. In the old post you read how it sucks. In this post look at what’s brilliant about it. First, it’s always fast. You gotta watch this video with Kevin Fox, interaction designer at FriendFeed, to get his philosophy behind building UIs. Think he doesn’t know crap about design? Go read his resume (PDF), he designed Gmail 1.0, Google Calendar 1.0, and Google Reader 2.0.
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Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Why FriendFeed will go mainstream (Part II) «
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So, why is FriendFeed going to go mainstream:
1. The team. Among the seven people who are currently working on FriendFeed is the guy who gave Google it’s “don’t be evil” tag and who wrote Gmail. Another guy on the team did Google Maps. Yet other people on the team did impressive things. This team will be unhappy with themselves if they just get me and Thomas Hawk and Louis Gray to use it. They are building something from the bottom up to be used by millions of people.
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Harvard Business Online’s Umair Haque
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Now, there’s a big problem with Facebook’s move. The endgame of competitive dynamics in this space is straightforward: the least evil, most open platform – by necessity – wins. Walled gardens lose – hard, fast, and decisively. That’s a simple, inevitable outcome of network economics – and no amount of artificial competition, a la blocking tactics, can change it.
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