Archive for July, 2006
Where Google and Microsoft are actually competing
This blog is written by two people (usually). Those two people are myself (a Microsoft employee) and Chris (a Google employee). That being said, there seems to be some sort of inherent conflict of interest, since Microsoft and Google are competing companies. But do Microsoft and Google really compete? Everyone seems to see Microsoft and [...]
Think Backwards
Consider the following: If you imagine the standard monopoly practice being to undersell the competition in a price war until they go out of business, consider: what happens when you and your competition already offer products for free? The answer in this case: have less ads. It’s simple when you think in terms of economic [...]
What I’m Reading 14 (and Liu’s Reviews)
The Lonely American Just Got a Bit Lonlier AOL Said, ‘If You Leave Me I’ll Do Something Crazy’ [NYTimes article (needs subscription)] Mother duck makes annual traffic-stopping trip Google’s Secret Weapon Foreign Accent Syndrome Word. Columbine YouOS (still in beta) Reviews Sanitarium (4/5) Google Earth (4/5): Good at what it does, needs to do more [...]
Net Neutrality: What’s that?
There’s been a lot of interest lately in the technology community about an issue known as net neutrality. Technically, the idea behind net neutrality is simple: a network provider (e.g. AT&T, a telephone network provider) must provide access to the internet without discriminating. Discriminating based on what? One possibility is by consumer: the network provider [...]