Setting Outlook Exchange on iphone or Blackberry

If you would like to sync your outlook exchange server of University of Utah, with your iphone or blackberry then you require the following three information:

1) incoming host server: imap.umail.utah.edu
2) username: unid@umail.utah.edu
3) password: <your password>

Enjoy!

Office Live vs Google Docs

Nice comparison by ReadWriteWeb. I wish they had included Zoho also.

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Comparison  —  Today, Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access.  The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others.

via Techmeme

Lifehacker has a comparison of Google Docs and Zoho.

Rohit

Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo

via Techmeme

Chris Liddell / Microsoft:Media Alert: Press Conference Call to Discuss Microsoft Proposal … 

Discussion:

Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:   LIVE Blogging: Microsoft Yahoo Press Conference

Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:   Real, Not Rumor: Microsoft to Bid for Yahoo!

Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:   Microsoft offers to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion, in bid …

TDavid / Things That:   Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo for $31 a share, $44.6 billion deal

Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:   Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Cash And Stock Bid For Yahoo; 62 Percent Premium

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:   Microsoft - Yahoo Conference Call Info: 8:30 EST / 5:30 PST

Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog:   Breaking News: Microsoft Makes Bid to Buy Yahoo!

BBC: Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo 

Discussion: Digg:   Microsoft to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion

 Ina Fried / CNET News.com: Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo

Discussion: Kdawson / Slashdot:   Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo

Jordan Golson / Valleywag:   Terry Semel leaves Yahoo for good, gets street named after him

 DealBook:Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo 

Discussion:Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com:   Microsoft Offers for Yahoo: Welcome to the Land of Neuromancer

Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:   Microsoft Offers To Buy Yahoo

Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:   Microsoft Wants To Buy Yahoo

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Yahoo’s Semel Steps Down As Chairman

Discussion:

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:   What Would a Combined Microsoft-Yahoo Look Like?

 Associated Press: Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo

Discussion:  Shane McGlaun / DailyTech:   Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion

 DealBook: Microsoft’s Letter to Yahoo 

Discussion:Matthew Aslett / 451 CAOS Theory:   Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo. Whither Zimbra?

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:

Microsoft makes bid for Yahoo; May change the search game; Bid could rise 

Discussion: Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:   MSFT + YHOO: Would Would Microsoft Yahoo Look Like?

Shrija Agrawal / VC Circle:   Microsoft Makes Acquisition Bid For Yahoo At $31 A Share …

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Microsoft Bids $31 for Yahoo (MSFT/YHOO)15 minutes ago

Discussion: Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:   MSFT and YHOO: Then there were two

Mathew Ingram / The Globe and Mail:   MSFT and YHOO: Who’s holding the shotgun?

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Microsoft offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo 

Discussion: Electronista:   MS/Yahoo deal: conference call, Yahoo responds

MG Siegler / ParisLemon:   Microsoft to Yahoo: Join Us, Join Us or Die (and here’s $44.6 billion …

PC World:   Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion

eWeek:   Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo

Search Engine Watch Blog:   Breaking News: Microsoft Serious about Yahoo Acquisition

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:   BREAKING: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants:   Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

Alex Yenni / LEWIS 360°:   Rise of the hybrids  —  Things are heating up on the ol’ interweb.

Orbitcast:   Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 Billion

Wall Street Journal:Microsoft Bids for Yahoo

Discussion: Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:   Market reacts to Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer

Interesting Videos

This is an amazing video showing fights between crocodile and lions, and lions and buffaloes for a calf.

This one is a funny indian ad.

Just for fun- Hardwork, Knowledge, Attitude, Bullshit & Ass kissing from mathematical point of view

Mathematical Point of view  is posted by Dr. Zvi Goldstein on his website. This is an interesting read. To summarize:

Hardwork= 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

Knowledge= 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

Attitude= 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

Bullshit= 2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

Ass kissing= 1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

“So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it’s the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.”  

API for Online Social Networks

API domain for social networks is getting hotter now. Google has come up with ‘Open Social’, which enables developers to write API across social networks. You can find an excellent discussion about it here from Marc. Current partners of Open Social are MySpace, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Flixster, RockYou, Slide, Bebo and SixApart.

Following is an interesting post from TechCrunch  (via Techmeme) :

Checkmate?  MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)  —  Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle.  —  MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google’s OpenSocial initiative.

Some interesting thoughts about API for social networks by Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:

“Full APIs for Extracting and Creating Content on the Social Network: With the growth in popularity and valuations of social networking sites, some companies have come to the conclusion that the there is an opportunity for making money by becoming meta-social network sites which aggregate a user’s profiles and content from multiple social networking sites. There are literally dozens of Social Network Profile aggregators today and it is hard to imagine social networking sites viewing them as anything other than leeches trying to steal their page views by treating them as dumb storage systems. This is another reason why most social network services primarily focus on building widget platforms or APIs that enable you to create content or applications hosted within the site but don’t give many ways to programmatically get content out.  

Counter examples to this kind of thinking are Flickr and YouTube which both provide lots of ways to get content in and out of their service yet became two of the fastest growing and most admired websites in their respective categories. It is clear that a well-thought out API strategy that drives people to your site while not restricting your users combined with a great user experience on your website is a winning combination. Unfortunately, it’s easier said than done. “

Another interesting read:

Why So Many Want to Create Facebook Applications  —  Site’s Growing Ranks  —  Seen as Potential Source  —  Of Revenue, Customers  —  Another online gold rush is on.  Entrepreneurs are scrambling to create small software programs for Facebook Inc.’s social-networking site and grab footholds in its emerging economy.

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Author:   Riva Richmond

Rohit Aggarwal

Tango between Facebook and Microsoft

Source: Microsoft wins Facebook bid battle  —  Update: 12:30 p.m. see bottom.  —  After weeks of speculation, Microsoft appears to have won a battle with Google over who would get a stake in Facebook, according to a source familiar with the situation.  —  Microsoft and Facebook were close to a deal, according to the source.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Ina Fried
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9803689-56.html

Facebook Is Close to Choosing Microsoft or Google for Deal  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. is close to choosing between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to sell ads for the social networking service outside the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Link:   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119323518308669856…

Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook  —  Microsoft has won a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart Facebook.  —  The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Brad Stone
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/technology/24cnd…

Facebook and Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance  —  Microsoft to take equity stake in Facebook; companies expand advertising deal to cover international markets.  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. and REDMOND, Wash. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Facebook® and Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft …

Source:   PR Newswire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071024/aqw247.html

Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs.  —  While the storyline would have been more dramatic if Facebook had spurned its current ad-serving partner Microsoft for Google, it is confirmed that Microsoft has won the deal.  It will invest $240 million in Facebook and expand its existing relationship …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/24/facebook-takes…

Three Reasons Microsoft Underpaid For Facebook  —  It’s official — the truth is less profitable than fiction.  Facebook has secured the cornerstone of its $15 billion valuation with today’s Microsoft alliance.  But at $240 million, that’s only a 1.6% slice of a much larger pie.

Source:   Epicenter
Author:   Terrence Russell
Link:   http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/10/three-reasons…

Microsoft’s Surprise: opened the source code of .NET libraries

It is all over the net. If you are interested to read about it then following are some good articles:

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries  —  One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them.

Source:   ScottGu’s Blog
Author:   Scott Gu

Microsoft Open Sourcing .NET-Microsoft announced this morning that the source code for its .NET framework libraries is being opened to the world, allowing outside developers to see inside when developing their own software in the .NET framework.

Source: Read/Write Blog

Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick

If Microsoft does something, then it is likely to face criticism such as the following one:

Microsoft’s Open-Source Trap for Mono — Microsoft wants to destroy open-source by opening its code for examination, but not for use.  —  Microsoft is claiming that releasing the .NET Framework reference source code under the Microsoft Reference License will give developers the opportunity to understand more about .NET.

Source: eWEEK.com

Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

via Techmeme

Video of Miss Teen South Carolina 2007

This video is making to popular lists in FaceBook across all Universities. It is definitely funny. Poor Kid!! But a positive thing is that she has become more famous than she could have become by winning the competition. A proof of this is that every one is talking about this video but nobody even knows about the winner of the competition.- Hilary Cruz of Colorado was crowned Miss Teen USA 2007 (source: Wikipedia)

Following are the few different clips of the same shoot:

Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

Uhhh…what did she just say?? Miss Teen South Carolina 2007

Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 with Subtitles

Miss South Carolina’s Answer to Question - Miss Teen America

Rohit

PodTech:Philip Baddeley, Venture Capital Tips from London

This video by Robert Scoble covers some tips from Philip Baddeley for approaching venture capitalists.