After bringing Yahoo researcher Gary Flake into the Redmond fold last year, Microsoft has decided to make him the leader of their "Live Labs" research and development effort. ZDNet The effort looks like an attempt to match some of Google's success with its Microsoft announced its Windows Live and Office Live projects in Live.com; Later, Microsoft folded its Virtual Earth and Maps & Directions projects into "This pattern is not merely about new applications," Flake said. "It's about a revolution in how we create, share and refine anything that can be digitally encoded--be it news and information, artistic forms, scientific breakthroughs, personal communications, economic transactions, and, yes, even software. This is not Web 2.0. It's World 2.0." Email the author to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
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