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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Live Software  —  I'm at a Microsoft press event in San Francisco to introduce the concept of "Live Software."  The big takeaway: Microsoft is fully engaged with thinking about what I've called "Web 2.0." They are focused on the internet as the platform, on software as a service …
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Previews New Windows Live and Office Live Services  —  Company outlines software-based services strategy.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Nov. 1, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today previewed two new Internet-based software services — Windows Live™ and Microsoft® Office Live …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Windows Live - More than an AJAX Desktop  —  I blogged my raw, unedited notes from the Microsoft press meeting today real time on CrunchNotes.  One of the two major announcements was Windows Live (best viewed on IE of course).  Office Live was also announced, which I will be writing about later tonight.
Steve Hamm / TechBeat:
Microsoft: 1995 redux?  —  Today's San Francisco briefing by Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie bears an eerie resemblance to a fateful day almost exactly a decade ago: Dec. 7, 1995.  That was the day that Microsoft invited an army of analysts and reporters to Seattle to roll out its plans for mastering the World Wide Web and browsing.
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
It's A-Live!  —  First of all, I'm not writing to slam Windows Live and Office Live - I don't spend 100% of my time here channeling H. L. Mencken for the modern age.  I have hope and interest in the new live offerings, and I hope time will help bring focus on to what new markets (and money!) these offerings will produce.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Introduces Web Services, Competing With Google and Yahoo  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 - Microsoft introduced on Tuesday two new advertising-supported Web services, Windows Live and Office Live, as a direct response to the formidable challenges posed by its major competitors, Google and Yahoo.
Discussion: Bink.nu and Andre
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Microsoft: I speak Web 2.0  —  If you lived in Manhattan, then you are all too familiar with the comical sight of a 40-year-old man squiring a 20 something "IT" girl.  —  The latest in footwear from Italy, a shiny new car (possibly paid for by an advance on the 401K plan) …
Discussion: The Stalwart and BASEMENT.ORG
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
WHAT "LIVE" IS  —  Microsoft rightly launched the Office and Windows Live services with stuff that is available, at least as betas, today.  I should say that availability applies to Windows Live.  The Office Live services won't enter beta until 2006.  It seems pretty clear …
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Microsoft 'Live': 'Hailstorm' Take 2
Discussion: TechBlog
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Live IM Makes Click To Call VoIP Real
Better Living Through Software:
Microsoft and 'Live'  —  Dave Winer is blogging the 'Live' announce …
Discussion: Techdirt
AdamKinney / microsoftgadgets.com:
Getting Started with Live.com Gadgets
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Scott is confused by "Live"
Discussion: ComputerZen.com
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Microsoft Live Event - My Real Time Notes
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google Results  —  Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google Results  —  Yahoo is testing a clever marketing tactic in its search results outside of the United States.  If you search for "google" on Yahoo Australia & NZ, then Yahoo will serve a …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
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Matt Cutts:
Hand-coded shortcuts on Yahoo  —  We talked earlier about some of the issues with Yahoo hand-coding shortcuts for queries, and the difficulty of knowing if money was involved.  Now Loren points out Yahoo has hard-coded some special behavior for the query [google].
Garett Rogers / ZDNet:
Google: Thinking about the future of TV ads  —  The New York Times published an interesting article yesterday that gives some insight into how Google operates and what may be coming in the advertising arena.  I was particularly intrigued by the mention of television ads …
Wendy Davis / MediaPost Publications:
Consumer Spending For Web Content Nears $1 Billion  —  LED BY A SURGE IN entertainment spending, U.S. consumers shelled out $987 million for online content during the first half of this year, marking a 16 percent increase from the first half of 2004, according to a report issued Monday by the Online Publishers Association.
AC/OS:
CIOs actually care about open source  —  I just heard the most shocking thing.  I'm in the first day's closing keynote session at the Open Source Business Conference Boston, and asked the CIO panel a simple question: … I expected them to say that they took a pragmatic approach …
Discussion: tecosystems
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Following the Search Engine Referral Money Trail  —  Now that the month of October is over and my AdSense numbers are complete, I figured it was time for a slightly more detailed follow-up to my October Web Search Referral Statistics post from a couple weeks ago.

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