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Over the last few months I’ve been asked, a lot, by some smart folks on how web 2.0 and cloud computing are defined, and what their impact will be on technology as a whole.  Since both terms are used very loosely, and often times by marketers who aren’t knowledgeable in either field, web [...]

Tagged as: Amazon, Cloud Computing, cloud+computing, Computing, Google, IBM, Larry Ellison, Microsoft, Oracle, Web 2.0, web2.0

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Since the rumor about Microsoft’s $100M acquisition broke last week (now no longer a rumor, but a fact), I’ve had several people ask me on my take of where Microsoft is headed with this new tool in its search toolbox. First let me frame my angle here. Over the last four years I’ve worked [...]

Tagged as: Don Dodge, Google, Intelligent Search, Knowledge Management, Knowledge+Management, Microsoft, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Powerset

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Unless you were living under a rock, you probably know by now that Microsoft decided to walk away from an acquisition of Yahoo! late yesterday afternoon. A great behind the scenes view of what happened was posted by Kara Swisher here. Earlier this week, a much smaller - almost insignificant - deal apparently [...]

Tagged as: Acquisition, All Things Digital, Google, Kara Swisher, Microsoft, Stevel Ballmer, Xobni, Yahoo!

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We all know Marc, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Netscape, right? Well, if you happen to follow his weblog, you’ll see that he also offers some very good analysis of ‘the events of the day’. Take, for example, his excellent post on the possibility of Microsoft going hostile on Yahoo. Here’s [...]

Tagged as: Acquisition, Andreessen, Hostile+Takeover, Microsoft, Yahoo!

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