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2 hands and 1 brain

Limits of mortality
February 10

The wild west

I've decided to leave Microsoft, and found a startup with a partner.
My new stint is http://www.moonshoot.com.

I'll be freely blogging now, since I'm now in the wild west :)

July 23

Why I don't blog

The reason I haven't blogged a lot, is because I find it difficult to disambiguate things that will give away corporate confidential information vs just random thoughts ... Many of my internet friends have recommended I blog about something that is not project/technology specific but generic. The first is this specific topic - the challenges of blogging.
 
I've seen employee colleagues who got into trouble through blogs by giving away roadmap information.
I've seen other employee colleagues who established themselves well in the industry and got rewarded by the company for tipping hands occasionally.
The balance and line between getting rewarded, and punished seem rather gray.
I'm curious how many bloggers who work for large companies feel the same way as I do.
 
This topic does eventually bubble up to the point of data ownership and moonlighting. Are personal blogs corporate content, or personal content? What is to become of this now popular form of content?
 
March 06

Community HOL project "Live in a Box" (pronounced \'liv\ in a box) aka livebox published

An all out hands on lab for Windows Live has been published on codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/liveinabox.

If you're an enthusiast and would like to contribute more sample code etc. please let us know on codeplex.

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January 18

Windows Live Contacts control tile view launched!!

Together with Danny Thorpe (red circle on the right) and Gabriel Corvera Ortiz (my partners in crime),

we finally have the presence view of the Windows Live Contacts control out - it's taken much more time than we originally anticipated due to people going on vacations :P, server configuration issues, and SSL problems. Either way, sorry for being dark recently - we're busy coding/testing/localizing/and releasing.

The tile view is essentially a 'share this' feature which makes it super easy for you to share the current context (the web page you are viewing) with your friends either thru IM or email. Note the IM capability only works if you

  1. are logged into Windows Live Messenger
  2. browsing in Internet Explorer

As the publisher of content (the web page), you benefit from getting more traffic thru 'word-of-mouth' viral advertising by your viewers.

This capability is a reuse of much of the infrastructure that the spaces team built up. Yes we're all about leveraging what's available. 

August 21

Finally, articles I put together are out too :) - search, and contacts

These articles have been brewing for a month or 2 by this time.
We will aspire to become better, stronger, and faster

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlive/html/mashupWLContacts.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlive/html/BuildSearch.asp
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