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Live Labs announced
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 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.
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.
Comment by Justin D-Z — January 26, 2006 @ 9:46 pm