0) State what your technology is and what problem it’s trying to solve on the product’s web page. Use plain, practical language. Hint: “professional-quality business applications” does not mean anything.
1) Don’t use a video. Use words first, then use a video to convey, you know, visual concepts, if necessary.
2) If you use video, the video [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'
Dear Microsoft: Here’s How To Communicate with Developers
April 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, That's Pretty Messed Up Right There
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We All Have Our Sacred Cows, Mr. Benioff
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Microsoft, Web/Tech
Link: Microsoft’s Future, Beyond Windows 7 and the PC – NYTimes.com
“[Microsoft is] trapped in their own psychosis that the world has to revolve around Windows on the PC,” says Marc Benioff, the C.E.O. of Salesforce.com, which competes against Microsoft in the business software market. “Until they stop doing that, they will drag their company into [...]
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Microllsoft
May 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Microsoft, Yahoo
People have been talking over the weekend about the failed Microsoft/Yahoo takeover talks. As a Yahoo shareholder and former employee I’m disappointed that it’s going to be quite some time before we get our money out of that stock (note to self: in the future, always sell ESPP shares the day you leave). I empathize [...]
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“Microsoft could keep XP if customers want it”
April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Microsoft
Link: Microsoft could keep XP if customers want it: CEO
Setting aside the absurdity of the headline (last time I checked pretty much every company is in business to sell customers stuff they actually want), this would seem to be the strongest indication yet that Vista is becoming an evolutionary dead end, and that Microsoft will [...]
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Death to Developer Contests
March 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · .NET, Microsoft, Platforms
Over on his blog Microsoft’s Dan Fernandez courageously decries the frequent use of developer contests to engage developers and increase momentum for platform adoption. He counted up the number of contests Microsoft is running at the moment: it’s 18. Eighteen different ways to win cash and prizes for doing stuff with various Microsoft products.
Dan thinks [...]
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Creating Facebook Apps Using ASP.NET at VSLive San Francisco
March 13th, 2008 · No Comments · .NET, Microsoft
The VSLive conference is an excellent place to become familiar with the latest and greatest technologies for Microsoft platform development. I started speaking at VSLive in 1996 which makes it one of the oldest things I do on a regular basis besides eating/breathing/excreting. VSLive takes place in San Francisco March 30 through April 3.
I am [...]
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Nonsensical NY Times Story on MSFT/YHOO Integration
February 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Yahoo
To hear the New York Times’ John Markoff and Matt Richtel describe it in their largely fact-free story on the technical integration that Yahoo! and Microsoft will need to do if the merger goes through, you’d think that a Yahoo-Microsoft integration will amount to a cleaning of the Aegean stables.
The writers did take the time [...]
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Make Windows Server’s Licencing Virtualizable
February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Microsoft, Virtualization
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on behalf of clients who are looking to deploy applications to virtual data centers. When I first started working as a technology consultant in the ’90s, it was a given that if you wanted to have a web application, you had to buy a bunch of servers [...]
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More Thoughts on YHOO/MSFT
February 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments · Microsoft, Yahoo
Zend and Microsoft have done a lot of work in the last year to make PHP run well on Windows. I never understood why Microsoft devoted resources to that, but now it is clear: it’s going to make technical integration between the two organizations go much more smoothly.
This will hopefully be the death knell of [...]
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Yahoo’s Last Chapter
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, Yahoo
My wife (who, like me, used to work for Yahoo!) rolled her eyes this morning when I told her about the Microsoft offer. We used to excitedly hear rumors of this kind of thing every three to six months but they were only rumors. Now it’s the real deal, and I have to say, I’m [...]
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