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858 days ago
This morning I was driving into work and caught an interesting story on NPR's Morning Edition. The story was an interview with Lucy Kellaway, a Financial Times columnist, who was advising people to not social network with your boss because of the implications on your career as ultimately your boss does hold your employment fate in their hands and it's not the best idea for your boss to see your drunken weekend party pics in your online profile. Now, as someone who works in the social networking software industry (or really software in general), I found the interview to be really funny - because though I *think* twice about putting some pictures up, certainly I'm a lot more relaxed about befriending peers or managers in my company because I feel like the company is more tolerant; and my participation in these networks is somewhat expected. Absolutely I care about my image and how my co-workers might percieve me, but I wouldn't hesistate to have my boss as my friend on any ...
1025 days ago
Admitted, I've been uh...a bit lazy when it comes to posting lately (my last entry was in august ) Ever since we started the Spacecraft and have been regularly posting there as a team, I haven't been posting to this work blog as much as I should. I promise I'll be better :) Anyway, today was a little bit of an upgrade when it comes to customization - new themes! finally, I know, even I was getting sick of the same themes over and over again. I'm using "Light stream" - though my fave is probably "Street Graffiti" (Although...it is a bit phallic)1215 days ago
we're in the process of updating the Windows Live Spaces service - you might see some weirdness like things not loading completely or like the fonts showing up MASSIVE and all the wrong colors. This is NOT the new WL spaces so dont worry - i swear, its looking so much hotter than msn spaces ever did. <update>3:30pm 8/2/2006 - we're in better shape now and working out the last of the kinks.
1215 days ago
Remember when you were trying to add modules and the list was this horrible mish-mash of add-remove-hide-create-add-hide-create-what the heck? Yeah, it was kind of a mess. Thanks to Jason, our development manager, who stepped it up (or maybe it annoyed him so much it drove him to help fix it?) we looked at solving the following problems There is NO logical ordering to how things are listed in the list (like lists of the same type aren't grouped together etc) It's so hard to tell what 'action' corresponds to what (because the list was just a list with wayyyy too much text) It was really hard to tell what things you could add multiple instances of (like lists) or add just one instance of (like blog) It was IMPOSSIBLE to know if any new modules or gadgets had been added The list scrolled in a weirdo way (not very elegant) It was just really ugly and unappealing Not that we've figured it all out (and in fact, we're working with the live.com team to figure out what works ...1215 days ago
So every release I talk about themes - in the past we've had a couple different designers work with us on them and they come out looking...unique...I mean, I've said this before but everyone has their own taste and there really is something for everyone. There are some themes (ahem space nebula) that I absolutely despise even though it was done by Larry, one of my favourite designers, in the UK. I personally know like 5 different people who used that theme and really, I can't understand why. Anyway, with the launch of Windows Live Spaces (WL spaces for short), we decided to punch up our existing themes - firstly in case you hadn't noticed, we're now wider. Yep, no more teensy-tiny 800x600 (also known as "Why is there that ugly big gap on the right side of my screen?") and secondly, we're now centered within your screen (also known as "Why is my space all smushed up to one side of the screen?") - with all that we needed to revamp the themes that are already ...
