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Microsoft: Resposible Competition?

Sat 19 Nov 2005 2:08pm

I was browsing around some blogs a few days ago and came upon a Microsoft memo by Ray Ozzie. The memo discusses Microsoft’s new online strategy for the coming years, specifically their service-oriented strategy (a.k.a Windows Live and the Microsoft Office web interfaces). It was a fairly interesting read, but I found one section especially […]

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Facebook Source Code?

Thu 17 Nov 2005 9:49pm

File this one under “weird”. Apparently, some guy named Chris Nowak got his hands on some of the Facebook source code. I managed to get a look at it before it went offline. Pretty interesting stuff. It’s written in PHP and is awfully complicated. There was an especially interesting part near the bottom of the […]

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Flagr: Sharewhere

Wed 16 Nov 2005 3:06pm

A few of my friends from Olin have finally announced their Y Combinator funded Web 2.0 startup. Be one of the first people on the mailing list by visiting the Flagr site! Details are still a bit scarce right now, but it looks like Flagr will be providing mobile tagging of physical locations via cell […]

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Human Intelligence Validation

Tue 8 Nov 2005 12:16am

I just finished reading my good friend Brian’s post about “captchas”, or the annoying things where you type out the garbled letters in an image to prove that you are not a computer program when you sign up for things. Recently, I also read about a new service from Amazon called Mechanical Turk. Basically, MT […]

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Sean McBride
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