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1488 days ago
I've been using 3 different blogs/Spaces over the past year, and the time has come to consolidate. I'm moving on over to http://spaces.msn.com/members/mc. Goodbye, "emcee". It was nice working with you.
1521 days ago
Today, I hit “Zero Email Bounce”. There is absolutely nothing in my inbox. I have been working at Microsoft for 11 years, 1 month, and 29 days. And, I have never had zero items in my inbox ever during that time. I haven’t even come close. While I have hit 1000 a couple times in my life, I usually am somewhere between 200 and 400. After reading Omar’s blog, I decided to buy that little book he keeps talking about and try it out. I’m not even done the thing and it’s already helping. I actually tried to get to “ZEB” about two weeks ago. The only reason I couldn’t do it is because of my lack of discipline in just using my inbox for untriaged stuff. I found myself spinning on a few things, and wimping out and keeping stuff in my inbox “because I’ll get to it in a little bit”. But, I tried a bit harder, and it worked. The #1 benefit is that, when I turn off my computer and go and do something else, like hang out with my son, read a book, or go for a walk with my dog, I ...
1572 days ago
I just got finished playing with our new PowerToys, and I'm lovin' it, baby. One of the things that we had wished we had done more of in our big April 2005 release was around customization of your site. Sure, we have a ton of templates to choose from, but with 20 million Spaces now-a-days, we needed something more to make each Space more unique. Another area we felt bad about was our mobile site. We have a half-decent mobile site in Japan, but we hadn't brought it to other countries yet. With mobile handsets being so different country-to-country, it just wasn't something we could bite off earlier. Mike announced earlier today some big improvements to Spaces, specifically, in the area of customization and our mobile site. For those who want to take control over the look and feel of your Space, you have to check out our new PowerToys. You can tweek the style sheets we use, add your own custom HTML part, and even add streaming audio and video to your ...
1615 days ago
On Friday, I headed down to the waterfront here in Seattle to attend Gnomedex 5.0. The intersection of communication and technology is creating an explosion of cool new things for people to play with, and most of the conversations at Gnomedex are covering the things that we’re the most excited about: using technology to speak to the people you want to speak to, and to listen to the people you want to listen to. There was once a time when the only people who blogged were high-end power-geeks and teenage mallrats. The world is tipping now. When Dean from the IE team got up to talk, he announced for us that there are now over 15 million Spaces out there, and growing. But with the rapid movement of people getting on the web to share a little about themselves, the “listening” side continues to be fairly rudimentary. Some people have a hard time finding interesting sites that would be relevant to them, while others are connected to too much content, and it’s difficult to ...
