This is an amazing piece of writing. Loved it.
He was coarse and obnoxious. A big, overbearing, profane, restless, ambitious Texan who pushed and prodded and wheeled and dealed his way from poverty in the Texas Hill Country to the most powerful office in the world.
She was soft-spoken and eloquent. A gentle, quiet, polite, and comforting…
So, let me see if I have this straight.
Google did the following:
- Installed IE
- Installed the Bing Bar
- Said, yes, Microsoft watch what I do and learn from it.
- Taught Bing about some new bogus websites
- Became shocked and outraged that Bing actually learned what they taught it.
Does that about sum it up or am I missing something here?
The World According to San Francisco.
I was distractedly editing this in a coffeeshop and a guy leaned over and said, “I’m going to Cocaine this week.”
I was so confused for a second.
This is a good article describing how Microsoft is bringing its pieces together. In the last 3 to 5 years they have been laying the groundwork to bring an end to end computing experience to fruition. They are almost there. By the end of the year Windows Live Wave 4 and Windows Phone 7 will join XBox and Windows 7 to create this end to end experience. Should be interesting to see if they can pull it off and get enough people to buy into it.
I like what NPR is doing these days, showing they can have some fun.
Too funny, someone had way too much time and money on their hands.
Jon Stewart has a big point under all the histrionics. This could turn into a big PR nightmare for Apple, or perhaps it already has.
