Comments on: Ozzie FUSEs social media teams in Microsoft reorg

By: George Eberstadt

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:47:42 +0000

Good luck in your next project, Reed!

By: People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Oct 15, 2009 » A Day in the Life of Jonathan “Jon” Gillardi… aka “Johnny Montana”

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:57:31 +0000

[...] gets serious about Social Computing and launches the Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, a new group led by general manager Lili Cheng that will focus on software and services that are [...]

By: People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Oct 15, 2009 « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:14:25 +0000

[...] gets serious about Social Computing and launches the Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, a new group led by general manager Lili Cheng that will focus on software and services that are [...]

By: Smilk

Smilk — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:48:01 +0000

Your comment is unimpressive. It is obvious why you are commenting on a blog rather than making important business decisions.

By: Jeff Garlin

Jeff Garlin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:43:43 +0000

I forgot to mention, I am not really qualified to make these judgments, but it is common for me to talk out of my ass. I am bitter because throughout my career I have been passed over constantly in favor of youger more qualified people, many of whom were women. I am a lonely, hate filled loser.

By: Your Mom

Your Mom — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:37:28 +0000

Your comment only serves to prove that Jeff Garlin is an idiot. Is it that she is more accomplished than you? Or, is it simply that she is a woman? BTW, Vista kicks ass.

By: Microsoft creates social media lab | nextATOM

Microsoft creates social media lab | nextATOM — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:59:27 +0000

[...] Microsoft’s product groups aggressively trying to position the tech giant as a leader in the “Enterprise 2.0″ (basically taking the fundamental elements of social media to the enterprise). This is a nice [...]

By: Axel Magard

Axel Magard — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:18:04 +0000

- “Click SHUTUP! to tweet…”

By: mattmac

mattmac — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:23:09 +0000

lili and her team have delivered:
- the first social network at MS (wallop, spun out in 2006 because nobody knew what to do with it)
- chunks of the search experience in Windows today, plus more coming
- social features in outlook 2010
- social features in sharepoint 2010
- the first large-scale wiki inside Microsoft
- kodu, cutting-edge kids programming
- many key patents in social computing, many in product development today
- new social features shipping in bing tomorrow
…while still in research

This is first time running a product-scale org. Stay tuned. Surprises guaranteed.

By: Unimpressed

Unimpressed — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:08:53 +0000

Cheng has been recycled in derivations of this kind of role for the last 10 years in Microsoft Research with no bottomline revenue impact to the company. Ozzie’s “incubations” (don’t forget also about the ill-fated “Live Labs”) haven’t gotten anywhere on their own, with the exception of the Seadragon acquisition which is now called Photosynth…

Microsoft Research will go down in history as a huge waste of resources for the company… they should instead be sold off to Intellectual Ventures for their patent portfolio because they sure aren’t amounting to any meaningful advance from a shareholder standpoint.

By: Jeff Garlin

Jeff Garlin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:58:14 +0000

Oh, forgot the usual corrections:

- “Visual Search features debuted at TechCrunch 50 take advantage of Silverlight deep zoom technologies.” – not technically true, Visual Search doesn’t use deep zoom. It’s uses Silverlight as a programming model, i.e. like flash/actionscript, but that’s nothing to do with deepzoom nee:seadragon MSR.

- “It’s not a stretch to assume that these features will be laced throughout whatever social media constructs might as Office Web Apps hit the beta streets later this year.” – you owe us a verb here. Typo.

- “Reed Sturtevant, managing director of the Startup Labs in Cambridge, MA, has decided to pursue interests outside Microsoft.” – he must be pretty excited about Ray’s vision, or rather he has bought into it a lot less that you seem to have already Steve…

By: Jeff Garlin

Jeff Garlin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:47:56 +0000

“Cheng was in the Windows division where she managed the User Experience teams for Windows Vista”

Ouch.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:32:30 +0000

If Microsoft bought or built twitter…

- “Are you SURE you want to tweet that?”
- “Someone is trying to follow you, Do you want to Allow that or deny?”
- “You are about to enter 140 characters into the tweet box, ARE YOU SURE you want to do that??”

By: Ozzie on the realtime wave

Ozzie on the realtime wave — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:30:40 +0000

[...] June, I spent several days on the Microsoft campus talking with Microsoft executives about the impact of realtime and the emerging era of cloud computing. My conversation with Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie [...]

By: New Gadgets | Ozzie FUSEs social media teams in Microsoft reorg

New Gadgets | Ozzie FUSEs social media teams in Microsoft reorg — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:46:03 +0000

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