In the Introduction to Stickers post we wrote that we’d be providing ongoing insight on other stickers.  Today I am excited to introduce you to two new stickers, launching today. Super Gluer There are some members of the Glue community who have provided an incredible level of support and input. These individuals deserved special attention and thanks. As of today a Super Gluer sticker will be appearing on certain profiles. Additionally today, these initial 10 Super Gluers will be recei... Read Full Story

If you were to search for [Ronald Reagan Movies] at Google or Yahoo or Bing, would you expect to see a list of movies that the former President and actor appeared in? It’s more likely that you would see a set of web pages that contain the words “Ronald” and “Reagan” and “Movies,” which might contain [...] Read Full Story

If your business needs money, it seems as though you have two choices: Get a loan from a bank Raise equity from an investor, giving up part of your company in exchange Banks are everywhere, so the idea that they can loan us money seems obvious. And venture capitalists and the companies they fund are in the news all the time... and making a billion dollars sounds like fun.Here's the thing: for most businesses, most of the time, neither is a realistic option.Banks aren't in the business of tak... Read Full Story

Some people are way better at this than others.The other day, I was talking to someone about a complex and specialized issue. It's quite possible that this was the first and only time in the history of the world that this precise set of circumstances had ever occurred. He said, "do you have an example of how this has worked before for you?"I was puzzled. I mean, not only hadn't I ever had this precise problem, but no one in the world had.It's like the left-handed chiropractor in Berkeley wond... Read Full Story

Some book publishers don't like the Kindle. Either they're afraid of it or they've crunched the numbers and they don't like what they see. (Some days, 95% of the top selling Kindle titles are free... demonstrating that digital goods with zero marginal cost and plentiful substitutes tend to move to zero in price).Worried about the medium, they hold back, delay or even refuse to support it. Which is fine if you have market power, but you likely don't. No publisher does, certainly. The Beatles c... Read Full Story

The sun is out in the PNW and you know what that means? No? Ok, I don’t either. But is it Friday, which means it is time for another Friday’s With Stefan and Free T-Shirt Friday. Find the best related query to this week's theme and send it to us on twitter at @bing and include the hash-tag #FTF. Last week’s winners of  #FTF and the free copy of Windows 7 are below. They all gave great query suggestions and included the link to the query! Well done! Please DM us yo... Read Full Story

Holy Twilight-mania! I attempted to look for information on Twilight and there are, well, hundreds if not thousands of Twilight sites out there, I found myself buried in a torrent of Twilight hysteria. I mean, I have heard about this phe-nom but did not truly, culturally, philosophically understand it until today.  So in the midst of my Twilight research I found some pretty cool stuff that we’ve done across MSN and Bing that brings a ton of unique Twilight information together into... Read Full Story

So I just got home from the New Tee Vee Live conference in San Francisco.  I had a great time meeting friends that I have spoken with many times via Twitter.  This was not my typical conference, since normally I have the opportunity to go to conferences more centered on social media or Customer service.  I did not have the opportunity to stay in San Francisco long (just about 30 hours), but even though it was quick I did leave with a reinvigorated spirit and deeper friendships.  One of those... Read Full Story

So, if it's true that to a person with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, the really useful question is, "what sort of hammer do you have?"At big TV networks, they have a TV hammer. At a surgeon's office, they have the scalpel hammer. A drug counselor has the talk hammer, while a judge probably has the jail hammer.Maybe it's time for a new hammer...One study found that when confronted with a patient with back pain, surgeons prescribed surgery, physical therapists thought that therapy ... Read Full Story

I had quite an angry day today. Frankly, I probably shouldn't even be publishing this. Perhaps by the time I'm done writing I'll have got it out of my system. Perhaps not. We'll see.My dad's been cheating on my mom for years. Sadly, I knew. I had various indications, and someone outside the family, and outside his & the other cheater's (who's also married with a kid) workplace, someone rather random, approached me about behavior he'd observed in public years ago, for an extended period of tim... Read Full Story