Category: Archimedes Labs

Scraping and Stealing?

Post author By Keith Teare
Post date March 26, 2006

I have posted an essay on my personal blog covering this weekends controversy about scraping and stealing content.

Google launches Dbase, circa 1985, but with less functionality

Post author By Keith Teare
Post date November 16, 2005

Google launched GoogleBase last night. What a disappointment. Whilst Google Reader clearly points to somebody at Google “getting” the importance of edge published content and real-time indexing, GoogleBase is a throw back. Basically a dumb flat-file database system for the world to throw content into. It’s actually embarrasing for the whole of Silicon Valley. I […]

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Microsoft’s Reorganization and Web 2.0

Post author By Keith Teare
Post date September 25, 2005
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Microsoft announced a major reorganization this week. the crux of the reorg seems to be that the MSN and Windows divisions are being unified, and as part of this Jim Allchin is retiring. A new “Platform Products and Services Division” is the result. It will be led by Kevin Johnson once Allchin retires. There will […]