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The 2008 Olympics has been a source of pride for the athletes, for China, and also for Live Search, who posted a very nice series of background images here in the United States, at a rate of about 2 per day.  Even though our friend and ultra Windows Live enthusiast Picturepan2 lives in China (in Shanghai), he still was enamored enough of the Olympics and Live Search to collect every Live Search Olympics background , including the Birds Nest one that ran in China, and gather them in a SkyDrive folder for your viewing enjoyment: He took the time to save the jpg, and not just grab a screenshot
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Interview with Leah from the Messenger team

by Chris on 16 Mar 2006, 03:46 PM with 2 comment(s) and 2,873 views


Today I interviewed Leah, a Program Manager on Windows Live Messenger and one of the bloggers on the team blog: MessengerSays. As a result of the blog, Leah is in the process of switching to a more user-oriented role within the team, which hopefully will see user feedback having more influence over where the product goes.

Leah doesn't give many hints as to what we can expect in the near future from Messenger, however i'll give you two reminders: #1 and #2. In case you don't understand the second one, take a look at the screenshot in this recent post on social networking.

0.00 Introduction
0.48 Why the dramatic change in the Beta UI?
2.05 Status icons
3.05 Windows Live integration
4.36 Leah's best new feature
6.05 Windows Live Messenger for developers
8.39 Messenger team blog
12.40 Leah's new role
16.20 Tabbed Chatting
16.57 Blog v Beta tester feedback
18.30 Leah's acceptance speech
18.47 How feedback can actually bring results
20.07 End

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Previous Interviews:
Interview with Moz Hussain of Spaces
Interview with Phil Holden #2

 

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Interview with Moz Hussain of Spaces

by Kip Kniskern on 07 Mar 2006, 12:48 AM with 1 comment(s) and 1,865 views


Spaces icon.gifI interviewed Moz Hussain, a Product Planner for Spaces, last week, talking about how Windows Live will change Spaces, how it is changing the way the Spaces team works, and what to expect from Spaces in the coming months. We talked about some of the differences between Spaces and MySpace, about safety and security, and where Spaces fits in with IM and email as a communication service. You can listen to the interview here, on mp3. Be sure to check out Moz's blog: Moz at Work

00:59 How will Windows Live change Spaces?
03:05 How has your job changed because of Windows Live?
04:41 The three core pillars of Spaces
06:52 On payouts and rewards coming up in Spaces
09:22 Talking about MySpace
13:00 On building security and safety into Spaces
15:24 On codes of conduct
18:11 Where Spaces fits in communication services
21:36 Hiring and differentiation are the biggest challenges

 

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