Xobni - is an organizer for Microsoft Outlook email. The beta is now available to the public. I have been using Xobni for 6 months and love it. Xobni is inbox spelled backwards. Xobni compiles a summary for each email sender, extracts phone numbers, photos,...
At 2.28 PM on 12th May 2008, I was at the Suzhou (Jiansu province in east China) train station buying a train ticket to Shanghai as my next stop of my business trip, at the same time a 7.8 Richter Scale earthquake attacked Wenchuan County in southwest...
Over the past decade, data driven techniques have been steadily gaining ground over more intuitive approaches. Marriott’s Courtyard brand was born from the results of a conjoint analysis, not a light bulb going off at an executive retreat. And the crisp...
Robosoft BIDARD, FRANCE http://www.interse.com Developing Service Robots—For Transport, Cleaning, Healthcare Markets A robot in every home—or a ‘robuter,’ as Robosoft calls them. Someday soon, this may become reality if Robosoft’s President and Founder...
Unleashing the power of the mobile internet, fring™ is a community and service that enables users to talk, chat and interact with other fring users and their favourite online communities & services, all from their mobile devices. Originating from...
We are in the process of defining a new version of the Microsoft Startup Zone -- and we would LOVE, value and appreciate your input and ideas! Please take less than 1 minute and take our super short survey -- tell us the one most valuable thing we can...
I met both Aras and MindTouch last year. They are interesting companies because their business model is open source but their platform is the Microsoft stack. Oxymoronic? Surprisingly, no. I met Mark Lind, VP Marketing of Aras, last May at Software 2007....
Last night I had a dream…or maybe a nightmare. I was attending some kind of startup camp for young companies, but when I say “camp,” I mean it: there were hundreds of entrepreneurs packed into some kind of rustic log cabin/ski lodge,...
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by Dan'l Lewin
After John Shinal and I talked in late November, we followed up with another short talk about “lessons learned” and advice for startups. This is short but contains three ideas I think are important for startups. I have run startups and I’ve worked with many of them here at Microsoft. John Shinal, Vator.tv... read more