http://selberg.org Erik Selberg's Homepage & Blog Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:40:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Been forever since I blogged, just haven't been in the mood I suppose. So hopefully this will be a good one. As nearly everyone who has read The Innovator's Dilemma knows, every so often a new disruptive technology comes along and wipes out companies who are based on ... http://selberg.org/2010/01/17/boldly-failing-where-microsoft-has-failed-before/ Bing is live! Live is dead! Although I gotta say, who thought it was a good idea to use as the first background image a montage of things that rise, powered by hot air, and then just travel slowly wherever the environment happens to take them? Still, ... http://selberg.org/2009/06/01/launching-is-hard/ I've been meaning to write this for some time, but the recent Microsoft Search announcement is forcing me to write this faster than my schedule would normally allow. Probably a good thing. We interrupt this blog to shamelessly hock... The Kindle! I got one for my wife for Christmas, although it arrived just ... http://selberg.org/2009/05/27/moving-the-ball/ Looks like Microsoft has gone with Bing! as their new search engine name. I guess they think it's different enough from SouthWest's Ding that they won't get sued (or already worked something out with them... not like www.ding.com isn't clearly for sale), and enough time has passed from ... http://selberg.org/2009/05/26/bing/ I haven't been very consistent in blogging, especially about search, largely as it's been rather tedious. I left the group over a year ago, and for the most part the search offering is pretty much the same as when I left. The market share has eroded. And while there ... http://selberg.org/2009/03/24/where-the-puck-ought-to-be/ Well, that didn't last long.... Jan has decided to go work for Qi over at Microsoft. Win some, lose some. http://selberg.org/2009/03/24/jan-now-at-microsoft/ Well, looks like Microsoft is readying it's latest search update. The internal site is Kumo (as in www.kumo.com), but the latest speculation is that Microsoft isn't going to go with that branding. Whatever. Ina Fried over at CNet even picked up a screenshot, which I'll copy here: A couple of things ... http://selberg.org/2009/03/03/first-impressions/ Well, the cat is finally out of the bag - InfoWorld is reporting that Microsoft has registered kumo.com, and will be using Kumo for it's new search engine as well as other search-related services. Heard that before? Well, it's essentially the same thing as Live, except that the ... http://selberg.org/2009/01/10/bing-microsoft-rumored-to-use-kumo-to-hook-customers-on-new-search-rebrand/ I haven't been blogging as much lately for a variety of reasons... but the biggest is that the Search Wars seem to be, well, over. Certainly Microsoft is still very much agitating about them, and the Yahoo! death watch continues, but... there isn't anything there that I can see. ... http://selberg.org/2009/01/02/the-tedium-of-the-search-wars/ OK... since I demonstrated how uncannily uh, inaccurate I am, here are MORE predictions for 2009. Remember, I'm under 50%, so best bet is to bet against me! Politics Senator Al Franken Ms. Caroline Kennedy Universal Health ... http://selberg.org/2009/01/02/2009-predictions/