Hey everyone, I know that there are a bunch of lurkers reading my Windows Live Space. By lurker, I mean reading it but not leaving a comment and saying hello. For those of you that dont want to have to remember to come to my website to read my latest post (I know…
While I was travelling the other week, I read a great article in Wired called: "Be More Than You Can Be". It is an article about the trypes of training that some of our soldiers go through and the technology that they use to increase performance. Below is the first two paragraphs which highlight one of the techniques…
Yahoo! Mail used to be my primary email account when I worked at Yahoo! and Hotmail was my spam account. However, now that I work for Microsoft I use Windows Live Hotmail as my primary account. I still check my Yahoo! Mail every day in order to make sure that I dont miss emails…
I just found out that my manager is now famous on On10.net which is a blogging site talking about Microsoft and Microsoft products. So if you want to know more about Spaces integration with Messenger or just want to see who my manager is, check out the video below. Warning: It isnt exactly top 10…
…but I went to one of their stores on Queen Anne Ave. today to rent The Departed, and they couldnt find me in the system because I hadnt opened an account with that specific store. I have about ten different accounts at Blockbuster stores around the country, but none of them are linked up? …
I guess I am behind the times in writing about the Apple iPhone but I was initially ambivalent about the phone so I wanted to wait to form my opinion about it. However, I just saw this demo and I really dont get how the touchscreen is going to be so revolutionary. Check out…
One of my former managers from when I worked at Excite@Home, once told me that the internship at Microsoft (no matter where you decide to go fulltime) is absolutely amazing from a professional, social, and personal perspective. I trust his opinion and advice enormously and as a result, I decided to forgo a few other interesting…
Cool stuff. Today we just released the latest version of Spaces to the world and among the new features is the ability to embed videos in a blog. Check out the soccer video highlight video. http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swfVideo: Amazing Football Skill – Soccer Goooooaaallll
If anyone wanted to get a better idea about: 1) Windows Live Spaces, 2) Brazilian people/lifestyle, and 3) Brazilian-style music, you should check out this ad that the Spaces team in Brazil created to promote the service. A fun way of showcasing some of the features of the product I work on. http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=e81e7cb4-bafa-4161-8898-fb02e349aa41
One of the beautiful things about going to CES is that you get to check out the best things from each of the products because they are in full scale "cool demo" mode. As part of that the Live Local team showed me the cool map feature which shows the palce where I grew up…