Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

Microsoft blunders over Wikipedia editing

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Microsoft has landed itself in hot water, again, among the blogosphere and public in general after it offered to pay a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia articles in their favor.

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia – anyone can add or edit almost anything on the site. The chaos of such a method is maintained in [...]

Blog tag and five things you didn’t know about me

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Thanks to my colleague Peter Kim, I’ve been tagged so I have to respond with this post. What’s going on? There’s this viral thing going on called "Blog-Tag" where the blogger writes five things about themselves not widely known, and then "tags" five other people to continue the chain. This online tagging game was recently [...]

Microsoft’s New Blogging Technology

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

One of the features of Microsoft’s new blogging technology software is WYSIWYG, which allows bloggers to more easily handle layout on blogs. Additionally, the blogging software, called Windows Live Writer, comes with a kit to help blog developers to extend the application, connecting with services such as tagging and photo sites. Outside blogging services are [...]

Google and Adobe Co-Marketing Effort

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Adobe and Google are sticking the
annoying Google toolbar in the Adobe reader.  The Adobe Reader is part of an
estimated 55% of internet-enabled desktops.  Dell and Mozilla are other current
Google partners.
And, big business is happy to see
Google’s plans come to fruition:   
Google’s deal
with Abode was cheered by Merrill Lynch research analyst Justin Post, who wrote
in a research [...]