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Farecast the airline fare prediction tool is launched in public beta today, enabling travelers to leverage more than 60 billion records of past airfare prices to predict whether prices will rise or fall over the next 7 days. The beta still only covers flights departing from Seattle and Boston, but the company plans to roll out US-wide coverage through the end of
I missed BBC’s Newsnight last night, in which Robert Scoble appeared talking about Bill Gates, but I have now just watched it on the BBC Newsnight Website, and it’s pretty interesting. Thanks goes to a comment left by Duncan on Robert’s Blog for posting the link. http://tinyurl.com/s9bhw (Real Player) http://tinyurl.com/mcq32 (Windows Media Player)
Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities,
Ok so I’ve been on the Farecast Private Beta, an airline fare prediction tool, for less than a week now thanks to Mark and I kind of like what I’ve seen so far, but to be honest there’s still quite a lot of limitations. Now I know this is a very early private beta (invite only) but I think they really need
Ok so you’ve probably already heard the news about how Robert Scoble, one of the worlds most noticed bloggers and technical evangelists for Microsoft, has announced (10th June 20060) that he is leaving Microsoft to join a new start up called PodTech.net where he will work as Vice President of Media Development. But have you heard the new news about
Today Qwest announced that it is now the first communications company to announce plans to offer co-branded Windows Live services in the U.S. providing personalized Internet experiences for customers. Marshall Kirkpatrick has posted on his blog that he thinks this was a very good deal and that this is going to help Web 2.0 take off to the road even more than what it
According to the New York Post, Microsoft has been in discussions for several weeks about a possible acquisition of the online auctioneer eBay so they can merge it with its MSN Portal. If this MSN/EBay acquisition was to go ahead it would surely give both MSN and EBay a great advantage over Google, but as the New York Post pointed,
The guys over at Text Link Ads, have just completed work on a tool that answers the timeless question of, “What is a link from my website worth?” The new Text Link Ads Calculator will help answer that question for webmasters, while helping potential link buyers out there figure out what they might want to pay out in today’s marketplace. Calculator factors include:
Hey everyone, do you know of anybody, maybe even yourself, who would like to start a Creativity Website or Blog or maybe even a forum based website for discussing creativity, or anything else you can think of with your creative mind that involves creativeness! Why am I asking this well I’m asking this because I have a domain name registered
The week-long anti-competition hearing involving Microsoft and the European Commission has finished – with neither side willing to predict the outcome. Microsoft is appealing against a 2004 ruling when Brussels told it to change how it sells its Media Player software and fined it 497m euros ($613m; £344m). The Court of First Instance may not deliver a verdict until early