Anti-Microsofties get into Search Champs

January 28, 2006 By

Hey, Brady, what’s up with inviting anti-Microsoft folks into Search Champs? Folks like Ted Leung who is working on the open source Chandler calendaring application. Or Emily Chang?

Oh, I think Emily Chang covers it pretty well on her post (and she has a list of all the Search Champs, darn interesting blog reading there).

I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us (or who are trying to compete with us). There’s more post-search-champs-meeting talk on Memorandum.

Oh, I like Ted and his family a lot. He’s one of the nicest guys I’ve met. Damn smart, too. I wish I could hire him.

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  • Christopher Coulter

    I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us

    Would that include Gobbels, John and me? :) Or are we just “trolls”? Heh.

  • Christopher Coulter

    I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us

    Would that include Gobbels, John and me? :) Or are we just “trolls”? Heh.

  • http://www.sauria.com/blog Ted Leung

    Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.

  • http://www.sauria.com/blog Ted Leung

    Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.

  • Ralph Scheuer

    “I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us (or who are trying to compete with us).”

    So there’s this new trend of getting inspiration and ideas from the competition? Bwahaha, you mean that the creation of the XBox had nothing to do with the fact that the Playstation was so successful, that IE owes its existence to other things than Netscape, that you’d get into online music without Apple, that the Mac has nothing to do with the history of Windows, that Tim Patterson’s QDOS, which was a CP/M clone itself…, that Word and WordStar…?

    Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

  • Ralph Scheuer

    “I love this new trend of listening to people who’ve fired us (or who are trying to compete with us).”

    So there’s this new trend of getting inspiration and ideas from the competition? Bwahaha, you mean that the creation of the XBox had nothing to do with the fact that the Playstation was so successful, that IE owes its existence to other things than Netscape, that you’d get into online music without Apple, that the Mac has nothing to do with the history of Windows, that Tim Patterson’s QDOS, which was a CP/M clone itself…, that Word and WordStar…?

    Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

  • Christopher Coulter

    Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

    Well pointing out the obvious (sadly) does no good, but get into the blogger psychology and everything is easily understood. As, well, bloggers have extremely short-attention spans. When they see it, when it comes on their radar, and impacts them and their digitial lifestyles, only then is it a new thing. The sense of history is but lost.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Microsoft’s survival strategy for around 30 years has been copying, imitating and mass-marketing, and you tell us about that new trend?

    Well pointing out the obvious (sadly) does no good, but get into the blogger psychology and everything is easily understood. As, well, bloggers have extremely short-attention spans. When they see it, when it comes on their radar, and impacts them and their digitial lifestyles, only then is it a new thing. The sense of history is but lost.

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  • http://www.juegoszaping.com/ juegos

    Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.

  • http://www.juegoszaping.com/ juegos

    Dude, you’re making me blush.

    One small correction, though. Chandler is more than just a calendar. It’s just that right now the calendar is the only part that’s had a lot of work done to it.