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Skype Store and Forward IM: The Worst of Both Worlds

December 11, 2005

Andy Abramson mentioned a phenomenon I’ve noticed many times with Skype: IM sometimes shows up much later than sent. Specifically, if you IM someone who isn’t online, Skype somehow stores that up, and sends it later. At first, this looked like a great feature to me – a hybrid between IM and email. It seemed be exactly [...]

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SNARF: Lots of Promise

December 5, 2005

Late last week there was quite a bit of commentary on a new utility from Microsoft Research called SNARF, or Social Network and Relationship Finder. SNARF uses relationships to help you sort and categorize email — the same thing iotum does for incoming voice calls. The promise of SNARF is that you will get to [...]

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Katrina Relief: Microsoft Employees Chip In

September 14, 2005

One of the things I’ve always admired about Microsoft, both during my time as an employee there, and after, is the incredible sense of civic duty the company has. Annually the employees give 10′s of millions of dollars to their favorite causes and charities. Corporately, the annual United Way campaign used to raise in excess [...]

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