December 2005 - Posts
Oh this is sooo cheesy - and fun.... A Bob Keller recommendation ofcourse - this facerecoginition software takes in one of your fotos and then compares it to it database of 2400 celebrities and tells you who you resemble and how close. I tried mine and
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Business 2.0 talked about Lazy Sunday - the SNL Video that I linked to last week and New York Times was quoted as saying that since launch in a week- the video has already had 1.2 million downloads! Phenomenal when you think thats all driven by Word of
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For a team of 60+ to have barely 10 offices inhabited means: its that week between Xmas and New Year when everyone is out partying while I am heads-down on my powerpoint deck. ( I know this aint exactly powerpoint right here - but then - I will jus ignore
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This tool was sooo cool when I tried it a few weeks ago - thanx to Business2Blog . Especially great in collecting data for opinion-debates based on the blogosphere, Opinmind gets a return on the positive and negative opinions across the blogosphere. For
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Another update from Xeni at BoingBoing :: Last night, the French parliament voted to affirm the legality of filesharing free music and movies on the Internet. If the amendment survives, France would be the first country to legalize so called peer-to-peer
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Our own Katie Holmes (no this one has nothing to do with TomCruise) saw this video called "Lazy Sunday" live at SNL this Saturday - and the internal mail finally got hold of the Chronic Narnya Rap. Its the rap by Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell about the
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Remember Pacman - sure you do... But 2 students at UofM dressed up as PacMan and the Ghost ran through the "FishBowl" at UofM during the finals week. This video is sweet ! BoingBoing says - Pac-Man screams in horror as the Ghost chases him yelling "Waka
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When Xeni Jardin wrote about this new "derriere media placement" strategy by Kodak in Ukraine.... my marketing mind went "wow" and "you gotta be kidding" at the same time. But then I find there is a whole company running this campaign! Whoa.... Enough
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Ryan Naraine at ZiffDavis writes about how we have uncovered a large-scale, typo-squatting scheme that uses multi-layer URL redirection to game Google's AdSense for domains program in this article by eWeek . This was part of Microsoft Research labs' HoneyMonkey
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Long airport lines, crowded malls, distant Sleigh-bell sounds in bars (I know! it is crazy) arent the only "scroogey" part of the holiday seasons - but lately - it has been the viruses too. This holiday season - its the new Santa IM Worm - bah thats old
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Eve "The QueenBee" Psalti followed up on our MBTI offsite adventure with her own recommendation of "Rediscovering ourselves in a medieval way" with this online personality test. I was quite consistent with my ENTP rating that MBTI gave me and was called
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One of my new yet loyal readers - Bob "The Maniac" Keller has recently been raising some noise about his inability to brand himself successfully as Bob "More Cowbell" Keller and instead being called "the Maniac." So to make the rest of the readers aware
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As blogged earlier - we had an onsite-offsite yesterday and the offsite "fun event" was to participate in Donna's MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) exercise. Over 70 of us in the teams were subject to the lab-testing environment where at the end of it
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We are the largest team in Microsoft under a GM (do not quote me on it - but we are close to it). So when we have an onsite-offsite, it is quite the production, and a nightmare for our admin folk. Spoiled by a few of my managers - let me get to the "Crystallize
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Early this week Microsoft Enterprise Services had our Monte Carlo Night where the Social Committee (this time led by Scott Armstrong along with Jessica Zulfiqar) organized the Poker Tournament for our team here at MS. Oh by the way - What is He-Man doing
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In our series of "TeamMember Profiling" sponsored by the Recruiting Committee here at WorldWide Enterprise Support & Services (I had a special memo from our business manager Ken Durham that I was putting the ampersand on WWESS one word too early)
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Michelle Heng - a post-graduate student in Information Studies at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) [ Yes - it the same University that I got my undergrad degree at] - mailed me yesterday talking about her work which involves studying about
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Aaron Dunlap has built a 9V USB Charger from an Altoid box (minus altoids and plus some basic electronics ofcourse) that can give you upto 10hrs of Ipod Play or more importantly cellphone juice on the go. There have been some previous versions from Chris
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BoingBoing had a good post today about this gadget from Neuros that could take your existing DVD/Video/TV recording and transform it into IPOD Video content. Cory Doctorow writes - It's seems ridiculous that you can record a TV show to play back on your
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Jenna Adorno from Microsoft JobsBlog quoted one of my comments on her post yesterday titled Transparency and agreed on my call for Transparency in Recruiting. That was a comment I wrote in response to her post asking candidates how long do they want to
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Yesterday - Glenn Pereira, my boss started our team meeting - with a cliched question - "So why do you come to work everyday..." This brought forth very cliched responses of "challenges" etc etc.... and some funnies like "My car is not yet paid off...."
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After a hyper-successful ping pong tournament last month for Halloween - guess what it's in store this monday? Its the MonteCarlo Nite. Oh what fun! The Initial Idea (No I do not smoke anything) was to have the following: (Yes we do talk in bulletpoints
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Thanx to a really terrible work fortnight - I missed Microsoft on the Apprentice yesterday. My fellow colleague Stephen Bowie told about how Seattle PI wrote a lot about how we approached the show - from a classic marketing aspect for making the most
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Jeff Reep my fellow Program Manager who now fills the role of our unofficial team-sharepoint developer is a major XBOX360 Gamer and is pitching to the Social committee at WWESS to have weekly XBOX360 Gaming-Socials. His kids are not old enough to fit
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