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Live Labs announced

Fred Oliveira on January 26, 2006

Live Labs This morning at Search Champs, Gary Flake announced Microsoft’s new Live Labs effort and released a manifesto that explains the new Microsoft vision for the web and (I quote), what they see as World 2.0. Their manifesto, available online (link) sheds some light on their goals for the near future.

Live Labs’ near-term charter is to bootstrap a positive and virtuous cycle in three parts: (1) empower Microsoft employees to more rapidly create great Internet technologies; (2) sponsor higher bandwidth exchanges of ideas and innovations between our internal partners, academia, and the Internet community; and (3) foster a community of people and projects which will inspire others to join us in this mission.

This means Microsoft is looking for partners with whom to work with building the next great technologies for the web - if this is you, why not get in touch with them.

Download Download Gary William Flake’s presentation - (Powerpoint, PDF) - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Imminent Internet Singularity

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know I have been sceptical about Microsoft’s view of the web and their capacity for innovation. However, this may help close the gap between Microsoft and the develpers out there that keep doing great innovative things for the web, and that is - in my opinion - the main key to creating great products.

Update: Richard MacManus is also talking about Live labs - link.


Comments on this post

Justin D-Z

It seems odd to launch a site like this with no lab results to show. Am I missing a link? It feels like a blog with no posts.

Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » On the StupidTrain

[...] This morning I attended the Search Champs meeting again where Gary Flake and Microsoft announced Live Labs. Richard MacManus has the details. He says “Microsoft is entering into a fascinating Internet-driven software era and - to my eyes - they are meeting the challenges head-on.” Gary Flake rocks, though. I wanna interview him about his speech. More from Frederico Oliveira (he has links to Gary’s slides). [...]

Lucian

The LiveLabs’s left menu is not rendering well in FF. They can start to work on that as the first lab…:))

Vinny Carpenter’s Link blog » links for 2006-01-27

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antonio queiroz

great information, but on the innovator dilemma its kind of a shame not to mention the source of it - professor C. Christensen and its books ” the innovator dilemma” - the title says it all :)

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Frank Mash

What kind of search champs? Just keep creating visions and never implementing them.
Frank

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Carolos

Nice

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