So many of you who know me well probably know that I tend to "call 'em as I see 'em". You also probably know that I spent some time in 2002-2003 on an internet marketing business where I helped small businesses learn how to use Google Adwords to more...

As those of you who know me well know, I am a *huge* fan of social networking software. In business school, I floated a business plan to forcibly create a social network by mining users' Outlook contacts pretty much by force. Didn't work so much...something...

So I'm here with the junket of folks from Redmond who flew down to participate in what is perhaps the biggest Web 2.0 show of the year, the Web 2.0 Summit. For me it is somewhat of a factfinding mission -- I haven't done the event circuit for Microsoft...