Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
Yesterday's Mix Session 'Web 2.0 and Beyond: What Is the Business Reality?' would more accurately have been called 'how are we going to make money out of this stuff?: no new information here'. Panelists were Bryan Biniak of Jacked, Tim Kendall of Facebook, the ever charming Loic Le Meur, now of Seesmic, and brainiac… Continue reading In the money
If yesterday's Mix keynote was all about products and developers, today's was all about Ballmer himself, who was interviewed on stage by Guy Kawasaki. Kawasaki, an ex-apple evangalist, pulled no punches - poking Ballmer on Vista, Google, Yahoo and Apple, as well as some pretty suprising jokes about chair throwing, anti-trust hearings and Ballmer's infamous… Continue reading Monkeying around
I'm at the Microsoft Mix08 show in Las Vegas with Conchango this week. There were some interesting thoughts in the keynote presentations that kick off the conference. Apart from some pretty unveiled comments about Yahoo, Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie very explicitly talked about the challenges which he sees facing Microsoft in the next few… Continue reading Heads in the clouds
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