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By: Read Write Web | Ex-Microsofties Launch $500 ‘Meaning Machine’ For Large Data Sets | Your Gadget Review

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:02:25 +0000

[...] unveiled a marketplace for data sets last month called Dallas. GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham says data represents a big part of Microsoft’s hope for the future. “Microsoft isn’t [...]

By: ophirk

ophirk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:15:55 +0000

Azure is going to be an interesting alternative to Amazon’s EC2 and Google app engine.
On one hand, it could be a great extension to the powerful .Net platform.
If you think about it from a programming languages and eco-system perspective it makes perfect sense.
It is just another run time environment with a slightly different set of rules.

Google has already tried to make data available as a service with Google base. While it is not a big success I still think the combination of free , high quality data with cheap processing power can lead to great new applications.

I wrote a post a while ago,on how new technology would enable developers to make money of algorithms ( http://ophir.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/can-you-make-money-writing-algorithms-part-ii/) .
It seems like this is a right step on the way to get there.

By: Microsoft Azure Walks a Thin Blue Line – GigaOM

Microsoft Azure Walks a Thin Blue Line – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:07:09 +0000

[...] and in the public Azure cloud. After the Redmond giant’s developer conference this week, where it detailed more of its plans, it became clear that Azure is striving to be a general-purpose cloud offering for enterprises that [...]

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:42:31 +0000

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By: The data landscape (Part 2), and Microsoft | blog.infochimps.org

The data landscape (Part 2), and Microsoft | blog.infochimps.org — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:57:24 +0000

[...] data platform industry has a new entrant this week! Yesterday Microsoft announced a data store of their own at their developer conference. Called Dallas, their offering is another example of a data [...]

By: The data landscape online, as we see it. Part 2 | blog.infochimps.org

The data landscape online, as we see it. Part 2 | blog.infochimps.org — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:45:18 +0000

[...] data platform industry has a new entrant this week! Yesterday Microsoft announced a data store of their own at their developer conference. Called Dallas, their offering validates our concept of a data [...]

By: Microsoft’s Future Lies in Software and Data | Digital Asset Management

Microsoft’s Future Lies in Software and Data | Digital Asset Management — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:44:01 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:45:51 +0000

Muchos gracias.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:44:57 +0000

It has been fixed.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:32:35 +0000

Mullenweg, not Mullenwag please! :)