Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Quick Summary: Participate in Microsoft’s Makeover My Office contest and get a free makeover for your home office.
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Microsoft India is running a really cool web 2.0 (-ish) contest called Makeover My Office, where the first prize is a free home office makeover package. The makeover package will include one Office 2007 Professional Edition, one Tablet PC with Vista Ultimate, one All-in-One Printer and (depending upon the winning entry) design services, flooring, paint, furniture, fixtures, and minor remodeling. There are also attractive prizes for the other entries.
But the prizes are not the only interesting thing about the contest. The contest’s web plus mobile plus television multi-media reality show format is also unique.
The contest runs in four stages –
Stage 1: Contestants upload an image of their cluttered home office and submit a 50-200 word essay describing how a makeover will improve their personal productivity and help their business. The last day of submitting entries is March 7th.
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John Battelle, search guru and writer of Search, in conversation with Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, at Web 2.0 Expo (YouTube video).
They talk about why Google Apps is a threat to Microsoft and Apple, why Google’s DoubleClick deal is scary for advertisers, why YouTube is integral to Google’s plans, why net neutrality is essential for web entrepreneurship, how mobile and local search are the future of Google and how Google is committed to user data privacy and portability.
What stayed with me after watching the video, however, was the contrast between John’s in-your-face flamboyance and Eric’s cautious diplomacy.
Also See: John Battelle and Robert Scoble on why Doubleclick went with Google and not Microsoft.
Q. What killed Microsoft?
A. Google, Ajax, Broadband Internet and Apple (from Paul Graham via Hugh Macleod).
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
800GOOG411 - Google’s free voice-based local business search 411 service (FAQs) - is only available in the US now, but who knows about tomorrow? It looks as if Microsoft’sTellMe acquisition won’t be enough.
Aditya - Local search will be the cause of Google’s downfall, heh? 
Update 1 - TechCrunch points out that Jingle and AT&T are the other players in the free 411 market.
Update 2 - Read/Write Web extends the discussion to other talking search services.
As Google becomes to the Internet what IBM was to mainframe computing and Microsoft to personal computing, the Googlezon (Google + Amazon) dominated future as depicted in EPIC 2014, a faux 2004 documentary, already looks real.
BusinessWeek wonders if Google has become too powerful.
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
At the Internet Marketing Monitor War Room, Google is still kicking ass, but Yahoo is fast catching up.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
I picked up “The Search” by John Battelle because I was intrigued by the very philosophical idea idea of ’search’ being the ‘database of our intentions’. Now that I have read the book, I’m even more intrigued. Especially when I find that if you search for “search” on Google, Microsoft’s Live Search is displayed as the first result, ahead of Google itself! Such generosity warms my heart!
