[This post has also been shared with subscribers of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy newsletter. You can follow it here.] I came back from China with stacks of cash. I didn’t say it was a lot of money. In 2006, Microsoft Research Asia invited me to stay with them for a few months. I am still not sure how I got the offer (I did not apply). Probably because I worked on what was in high demand back then: web content extraction. You might have a “Reader View” in your web browser—I was building the first prototypes of such a feature. But that’s irrelevant.
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[This post has also been shared with subscribers of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy newsletter. You can follow it here.] I came back from China with stacks of cash. I didn’t say it was a lot of money. In 2006, Microsoft Research Asia invited me to stay with them for a few months. I am still not sure how I got the offer (I did not apply). Probably because I worked on what was in high demand back then: web content extraction. You might have a “Reader View” in your web browser—I was building the first prototypes of such a feature. But that’s irrelevant.