Gary Flake

Microsoft to Tackle Google Street View With Crowd-Sourced App [UPDATED]

Kit Eaton — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:44:35 -0400

Google's Street View app, alongside Google Earth, has ever-so-slightly changed the world--buying a house may never be the same again, for one thing, nor will smartphone-based navigation. And that's probably why another tech giant wants in on the same action. Microsoft's apparently due to have a go with its own application dubbed GeoSynth.

Career Advice from Gary Flake, Director of Live Labs at Microsoft

Chuck Salter — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:10:41 -0500

1. If someone wanted to land a job at your company today, how would you recommend he or she do it?

The 12 Most Creative Minds Of 2008

Fast Company staff — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:15:04 -0500

Culled from the pages of Fast Company magazine, this year's top creative minds took risks, spurred ideas, and represented a masterful force driving every facet of business forward. Meet the 12 most creative minds of 2008.

Steve Ballmer’s Cloud Computing Ambitions for Microsoft

Michael Fitzgerald — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:21 -0400

Gary Flake's Live Labs manifesto proclaims that his group lives at the intersection of problems and solutions. The same spirit is behind the company's emerging "cloud" computing services.