The .NET Sweatshop (v2)"My life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - George Bernard ShawYet another blog post about Facebook- July 20, 2007 Has any company garnered as much attention in such a short-term as Facebook Yeah, you can suggest YouTube or Skype, but Facebook went from hot to scorching hot in the course of a few months. Rupert Murdoch, the man who owns MySpace, showed some major envy when he suggested that his property wasn't the hottest on the web any more. Sergey Brin is publicly speculating on whether they'd even accept being acquired (which essentially suggest that he'd be an interested buyer). ..http://blogs.msdn.com/sandyk/archive/2007/07/20/yet-another-blog-post-about-facebook.aspx The Customer Isn't Always Right- July 13, 2007 The business mantra for years has always been "The Customer Is Always Right". I recall reading business school case studies about how comapnies like Nordstrom were phenomenal is how they made sure customers were extremely satisfied--going to unimaginable lengths to send them home happy. Obviously, at Microsoft, we are very sensitive to our customer satisfaction as we know the connection between satisfaction and loyalty (and thus intent to purchase future Microsoft products). ...http://blogs.msdn.com/sandyk/archive/2007/07/12/the-customer-isn-t-always-right.aspx |