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January 25, 2006
categories: press, narcissism
Microsoft Launches Live Labs
Quoting from the press release:
REDMOND, Wash. - Jan. 25, 2006 - Microsoft Corp. today announced the formation of Microsoft Live Labs, a research partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research. Under the leadership of Dr. Gary William Flake, noted industry technologist and Microsoft technical fellow, Live Labs will consist of a dedicated group of researchers from MSN and Microsoft Research that will work with researchers across Microsoft and the academic research community. Live Labs will provide consistency in vision, leadership and infrastructure as well as a nimble applied research environment that fosters rapid innovations.
We more or less announced the formation of Live Labs at MSN's Search Champs event, which means that a lot of bloggers got the story first. A snapshot of some of the coverage (and other items) includes:
- The Live Labs Manifesto
- The press release, from Microsoft
- My presentation at search champs, entitled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Imminent Internet Singularity
- MP3 podcast of the above
- Transcript of the above
- Seattle PI story by Todd Bishop, Microsoft pushes Internet research
- Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog, Live Labs: Microsoft's Think Tank and Incubator for the Web 2.0 Era
- Richard MacManus's Web 2.0 Explorer blog, Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to action
- Nathan Weinberg at Blog News Channel, Live Labs Presentation By Dr. Gary Flake
- Fred at WeBreakStuff, Live Labs announced
The Live Labs website was rushed out the door in order to make the announcement, and it shows. Why did we announce if the site wasn't ready? The timing of the Ph.D. fellowships was tied to the academic year, so we either had to announce the launch of Live Labs a bit early or confuse people by announing a set of Ph.D. fellowships that were funded by an undefined entity. Either way was bad, but I think the early announcement was the lesser of evils.