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Bing is the Natural Successor to Bob

By Gary Burge | Published: May 28, 2009
Microsoft today announced its new search platform, called “Bing“. It was greeted by a mock (or perhaps not?) protest by long-time Fortune magazine columnist Stanley Bing, who in a press release “expressed ‘moderate outrage’” at what he termed “brand encroachment” by Microsoft. “For nearly 25 years, I have jealously guarded the value of my brand,” [...]
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Full read/write access to Google Calendar

By Gary Burge | Published: September 20, 2007
With the Social Network Bill of Rights movement championing full access to personal data stored on social networking sites, it is heartening to see major players like Google opening up the data silos. Jun Yang at the Google Data APIs Blog and Dion Almaer at the Google Code Blog have announced GData JavaScript Client Library [...]
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JotSpot to be unveiled next week as Google App

By Gary Burge | Published: September 3, 2007
Several of the techblogs are reporting or speculating that Google will announce at the Office 2.0 Conference next week the re-wrapping of JotSpot, acquired in 2006, as a Google Apps wiki. No surprise here. Back in July, Dan Farber covered the announcement by Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise, that JotSpot [...]
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am an experieced web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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