Microsoft Research, YouTube Outage, Twitter Fails, Courier Craze

In an honest dialog about previous failures, Microsoft discusses the importance of the long tail in search.

Outages Take YouTube, Wikipedia and Twitter Off-Line, web freaks out, but reassured a few hours later.

On the back of yesterday’s Telegraph article, Facebook responds. Facebook Does Not Cause Syphilis. What’s the phrase? Correlation does not lead to causation.

Shrouded in secrecy, Microsoft may have actually confirmed a courier tablet via jobs posting.

Ars Technica published an extensive write-up on Microsoft Research TechFest 2010. Almost all of the 19 projects from around the world have a summary as well as an associated video about the future of technology. Excellent read!

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